NEWSFLASH
The Weekly Newsletter of Cebu International School
Friday, April 24, 2015
MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of CIS is to recognize and nurture potential,
and empower all members of its community to have a positive
impact on our changing world.
Together we are Responsible, Respectful, Prepared.
Cebu International School
Pit-os, Cebu City
Tel no. (6332) 261-0CIS or 261-0247
Fax no. (6332) 261-0247 ext 217
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www.cis.edu.ph
CONTENTS
 Superintendent’s News
 Middle/High School News
 Elementary School News
 IBDP & College News
 Athletics & Activities Director News
 Other News
>Library News
UPCOMING EVENTS
 13 April – 15 May
>G11-12 Art Exhibition at Ayala
Center (Ground Floor, between Fred
Perry and Vero Moda)
 29 April (Wednesday)
> G12 Farewell Assembly, 1:45 pm
 1 May (Friday)
> No Classes - (Labor Day)
ROTATION DAYS
27 April (Monday)
28 April (Tuesday)
29 April (Wednesday)
30 April (Thursday)
1 May (Friday)
- Day D
- Day A
- Day B
- Day C
- No Classes
(Labor Day)
4 May (Monday)
- Day D
5 May (Tuesday)
- Day A
6 May (Wednesday) - Day B
7 May (Thursday)
- Day C
8 May (Friday)
- Day D
Superintendent’s News
by: Mr. Tony Harduar, Superintendent
Spring Musical – Peter Pan
Grade 12 Farewell Assembly
Wow! If you missed it, you missed an
awesome musical. The performers did an
amazing job, the crew made everything
fall into place so easily and everyone had
fun doing it. Congratulations to the cast
crew,
teachers
and
maintenance
personnel who made this show a
wonderfully entertaining experience for
all.
The Grade 12 Farewell Assembly is
scheduled at 1:45 pm on Wednesday,
April 29. All parents are invited to share
in this momentous occasion and
milestone with our seniors. We hope you
can make it.
Thanks to the Peter Pan Sponsors
We are appreciative of the support
provided by our sponsors who donated
Php50,000 in cash and Php3,000 in
products. Thanks to RD Pawnshop, Inc.
(Php15,000),
KEPCO
SPC
Power
Corporation
(Php15,000),
HomiLee
Incorporated (10,000 pesos), Atmosphere
Resorts and Spa (Php10,000)and PepsiCola Products Philippines, Inc. (Php3,000
in products). Your support helped to
make this a successful presentation.
No School Friday, May 1
School will be closed in celebration of
Labor Day on Friday, May 1. Enjoy the
long weekend!
Public Speaking – At CIS It’s a Basic
Skill
I ran this article last year and believe it is
important enough to do so again this
year.
Over the past year, I have watched our
students in several different venues as
they led assemblies, spoke at receptions,
performed in a variety of skits, presented
their work to an audience and performed
in debates and in the most recent musical.
It has been truly delightful to see students
perform and present with confidence,
poise and grace. One of the things we
value at CIS is providing many
opportunities for students to develop
their public speaking and performance
skills.
We believe that the ability to speak and
perform for an audience is a basic skill
that is important both in and out of a
school setting. We are proud of the fact
that we offer students a variety of
assignments and opportunities to talk in
front of others and to grow in confidence.
We are not only committed to developing
students’ writing, reading, mathematics
and analytical skills, but also their
speaking and presentation skills. Whether
the venue is the Friday Elementary School
assembly, a Monday morning skit, or the
High School students presenting their
Theory of Knowledge (TOK) assignments,
we believe that such opportunities are
essential to developing a well-educated
global citizen.
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Superintendent’s News
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Your Teen, the Tech Teacher
You may know how to access a YouTube video, but chances are, your teen is more technologically savvy. So swap roles— have her teach
you some tech tricks. Your teen will get a chance to be an expert, and if she isn’t sure of the details of an app or program, she’ll have to
learn them to teach it to you. You’ll get to interact with your teen in a positive new way.
Source: “Helping Students Learn, April 2015,The Parent Institute®, www.parent-institute.com
Middle & High School News
One of this week’s highlights for me was
the Teacher Appreciation Day assembly
that was organized by our Student Council
on Tuesday. It had many thoughtful
messages and performances from our
students and parents to express their
appreciation for the hardworking teachers
at our school. Then I returned to my office
to find a touching ‘Thank You’ message
from several students on my desk. It was
accompanied by some chocolate and an
apple which I sat and ate while reading
the messages and reflecting about what
an amazing group of students we work
with here at CIS and how proud I am of
everyone who contributes to their
education. Thank you.
Also happening this week in Middle/High
School has been our final round of MAP
Elementary School News
Hello All,
With just 6 weeks left (27 school days),
students and teachers are working hard
beginning their final unit of inquiry for the
year. It is hard to believe that we are
approaching the end of the year; when I
walk around to classrooms, the students
and teachers are so actively engaged that
it seems like they could go on forever!
We will continue to share classroom
learning through Facebook and through
personal classroom communications. If
you wish to learn more about the specifics
of your child’s learning, please do not
hesitate to contact your child’s classroom
teacher. We will be working hard straight
through to the last Wednesday and want
to keep you informed of what happens in
our classrooms.
Grade 1s shared their learning this week
related to the creation of trash and waste,
how it affects the environment, recycling
and what actions we can take as
individuals and a school to shape our
trash output. They conducted a trash
investigation in school and invited Sir Ram
to answer questions like: How much trash
do we make in school? What happens to
the trash collected in school?
by: Mr. Neil Walton, MHS Principal
testing for the school year. This will
ultimately provide us with some good
comparative data on the progress of our
students through this year. When we get
the results back you will be able to look at
your child’s academic growth in the areas
of Mathematics, Reading and Language
Usage and allow us to analyze the
effectiveness of our programs.
Believe it or not, this week has been the
last full week of classes for our Grade 12
students! Next week they will be on study
leave from Thursday onwards since they
will be beginning their final IB Diploma
examinations in the first week of May. It is
an extremely stressful time for them as
they make their last preparations and
focus years of studying on the goal of
achieving their diplomas. We know that
they have prepared well and we wish
them all the best, but before that, we
have a special occasion to mark the end of
their formal classes at CIS. The Senior
Farewell Assembly will be held in their
honor on Wednesday, April 29 at 1:45 pm
and I would like to invite you all to attend
and help celebrate this milestone with
them. The Grade 12 students and their
parents are also invited to be our guests
at a merienda after the assembly in the
canteen annex. I hope to see you all
there.
Have a great weekend!
by: Mr. Ted Mockrish, ES Principal
They found out that we make more
biodegradable trash compared to nonbiodegradable so they wrote a letter to
Sir Ram asking him to make a composting
site in school.
After learning about the negative effects
of trash and how long it takes for trash to
decompose (5,000 years in a landfill for
Styrofoam!), they wrote letters to Mr.
Mockrish about reusing plates and cups
instead of plastic and Styrofoam in the
canteen.
Today in assembly, they
showed the videos that they made to
help convince more people to reduce,
reuse and recycle.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Refuse!
With April and May comes lice season in
the tropics! Please be extra careful over
the next 6 weeks and check your child’s
scalp regularly for lice or nits. We have
been “lucky” this year with only one
reported case discovered and treated
over the weekend, but it is important for
us all to remain vigilant; lice are best
eliminated when we work as a
community to identify, treat and
eliminate them all at once. Thank you for
your collective support!
A letter was sent home yesterday about
the last book sale through Scholastic for
the year. This is a great time to boost
your home library in time for summer
reading for your children. Please see the
flier and letter about how to order. Our
school basket will close next Thursday,
April 30. Please make sure you place your
orders by then. Please contact Ms. Kelly
at [email protected] or Ms. Dunham at
[email protected]
for
further
information, or stop by the office for help!
This Wednesday, April 29, we will hold our
Senior Farewell Assembly at 1:45 pm. We
expect that it will be completed by 2:30
pm in time for dismissal, but there may be
a chance that your child maybe a bit late
to dismissal. Clubs will run as per normal.
This is a fun assembly where we say good
bye as a school to our seniors and the last
whole school event they will be at…other
than their graduation! All are welcome!
Thank you all and have a lovely event with
friends and family.
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Elementary School News
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ELEMENTARY AWARDEES
PRE-SCHOOL 3
RHIANNA KILLEN - for being caring by
taking the initiative in making her new
classmate feel comfortable in a different
environment
ELEMENTARY AWARDEES
ELEMENTARY AWARDEES
PRE-SCHOOL 4
OLIVER STEVENS - for being a thinker as
he explores the different centers in class
using his senses
KINDER
GRADE 3
KENSHIN EBRADO - for learning to take
risks in sharing his ideas during class
discussions and doing his best to
read assigned books independently
HYUNSEO LEE
RAPHAEL HUR
for being actively engaged in the
practical activities in math involving
area, perimeter and volume and
applying their learning in real-life
situations -
PRE-SCHOOL 4
JEONGWOOK LEE - for being a thinker by
finding a way to make the same sound
using two glasses and some beans
IBDP & COLLEGE News
GRADE 1
ISAAC RUDY - for showing initiative as he
brought books on recycling to school and
shared them in class
by: Ms. Jenny Basa, IBDP Coordinator/Dean of Student Services
University Acceptances as of 24 April 2015
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IBDP & College News
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University Acceptances as of 17 April 2015
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IBDP & College News
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University Acceptances as of 17 April 2015
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Athletics and Activities Director News
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by: Mr. Ace Pierra, Athletics & Activities Director
Register at CIS cashier on or before June 5, 2015.
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Athletics and Activities Director News
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CIS Donated 7 Bankas to Students of
Caohagan Island
“In Philippines, we commonly hear
students who skip school to go swimming
but in Caohagan Island, students go
swimming to go to school.”
Last Sunday, April 19, a team of CIS staff
and Yellow Boat of Hope volunteers went
to Caohagan Island, Olango Lapu-Lapu
City, Cebu to formally turn over 7 boats to
High School students of Caohagan. These
students attend school in Pangan-an
Island, a neighboring island that is 1.5k
away. Since there is no High School
campus
in Caohagan, the students don’t have a
choice but to swim to the neighboring
island of Pangan-an Island to attend
school. The Principal of Pangan-an Island
personally received the boats in behalf of
the Pangan-an High School PTA and
Administration.
A student said, sometimes they miss
school because their parents cannot
afford to give them money for banka fare.
If it is low tide they walk across muddy
mangrove areas, and if it is high tide, they
have to swim. The boats that we donated
will serve as their “sea bus” for going to
school. CIS also donated toys, Yellow Boat
of Hope bags, school supplies, books,
sports equipment, shoes and clothes to
the teachers and students of Caohagan
Elementary School.
These boats were donated and painted
by students of Cebu International School
during the Week Without Walls activity
held last January 27-30, 2015. Definitely
our students gave the students of
Caohagan a new hope.
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To all CIS Players (Including ISAC Volleyball and Soccer)
For those who ordered a sports uniform, kindly pay for it at the cashier. Green uniform- P750.00, Practice shirt P 500.00 and White
uniform- P 750.00.
Please disregard if payment has already been made already.
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Other News
Library News by Ms. Linda Odelson
Read, read, then read some more, is what I tell students. That is especially true over the summer too. With that in mind, I wanted to
let you know, if you are a returning family to CIS, you may check out books for the summer, ten books per person, including moms
and dads. Reading over the summer in your home language or English is highly recommended. On the library home page is a link for
family resources. You can search books by grade level, award winners, guys books and more.
If you are going home for the summer, consider purchasing a few books for the NEW library. We will be creating mother tongue
sections and your contributions and suggestions are needed and welcome.
A HUGE thank you to Avril Davey and Amy Rudy. They have donated hours and hours to help transform the elementary library. I
don’t know what I would do without them.