Dear Chinthes,

After school activities start on January 29 and the first round of signups will open on January 22. Please read the After School Activities section for important information on how to sign up and a full list of activities.
On Thursday ISY traveled to ILBC to play the first game of the Yangon Athletic Conference high school basketball league. Please continue reading below for a match review on the girls and boys games.
Today, Friday, ISY hosts its second invitational swim meet of the school year. The meet will start at 4:00 PM and run through to 7:30 PM. This will be another great opportunity for our swim squad to test themselves against the clock and other competitors.

After School Activities 

After school activities will start on Monday, January 29. Please read this section carefully as it contains information for signing up for session 2 After School Activities (ASA). The ASA booklet can be viewed here.
Most ASAs will take place on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday each week, with a couple of additions on Mondays. Session 2 will begin on Monday, January 29 and will run through to Friday, April 5th.
We are excited to bring back many favorite Service Learning activities, along with some fun movement activities to get our students out of their seats after classes are finished for the day. There are also music offerings, STEM clubs, and arts classes which you can choose. Most ES ASAs will begin at 2:20pm and HS/MS programs will start at 2:40pm. The duration of each activity is 45 minutes.

ISY After School Activities Process:
On Monday, January 22 at 7pm, After School Activity registration will open on PowerSchool. In order to enable all students to have a chance to get into their top choices, students/parents will only be able to register for two events on the first day. At 7pm on Tuesday, January 23, registration will open up for all remaining activities. Registration will close completely on Wednesday, January 24 at 7pm.
There will be a ‘Waiting List’ option for ASAs that fill up. Students can choose to be added to a waitlist or select a different activity for that day and time. If you choose to be added to the Wait List this will count as one of your two choices for day 1 of registration. From Tuesday, January 23 after 7pm, if you choose to stay on a waitlist, you cannot select another activity for that date/time. Activity waitlists will be looked at to decide if more sessions of any single activity need to be added. Students will be taken off the waitlist and added to the actual activity if spaces become available. Confirmed activities can be viewed on Friday with all of the student’s ASA selections on PowerSchool.

Elementary Football Mini-League

Swim Team

This is a notice for all swimmers that are not in the swim team but think they could be. There will be trials for the swim team on January 22 and 24. These trials will be held after school. 

The criteria for making the swim team is:

Elementary school swimmers – must be able to swim one length of freestyle and one length or backstroke or breaststroke. 

Middle and high school – must be able to swim and individual medley (25m butterfly / 25m backstroke/ 25m breaststroke stroke /25m freestyle)

Please contact Ms. Khine at hkhine@isyedu.org if you would like your child to trial.

Swim Meet information

ISY is hosting its second invitational swim meet on January 19. All information for swimmers will be sent to the swimmer’s parents early next week.

If you are interested in coming to support our Chinthe swimmers the meet will start at 4:00 PM and will be in the ISY school pool under the SAS building. The meet will run to 7:00 PM in the evening. 

Here are the training times for our elementary, middle and high school swim teams.

ES Swim Team:
Monday, Wednesday and Friday 2:20-3:20 PM

MS and HS Swim Team:
Monday, Wednesday and Friday 3:30-5:00 PM
Tuesday and Thursday 6:45-7:45 AM

Middle School Volleyball Tournament 

High School Athletics

Last night ISY’s girls and boys high school basketball teams started their Yangon Athletic Conference league. They started with games against ILBC International School. These games were played at ILBC.
In the first game the boys got off to a shaky start, but once the nerves settled ISY took control of the game and built up a lead, maintaining it until the final whistle. The coaches were also given an opportunity to try some new combinations. The players and coaches took away a lot of positives from this game. ISY won 55-25.
The next game would be for the ISY girls. ISY started off with a planned three point play that worked to perfection and ISY never looked back from this point of the game. Seven different players scored in this game which always helps when scoring can be spread out around the court. This game allowed all of the players to get ample playing time and plenty of valuable on court game experience. ISY would win this game 42-14.
We look forward to the next game on January 30 against ISM at ISY.

High School Softball

SEASAC Information

What is SEASAC?
The Southeast Asian Student Activities Conference is the athletics and activities conference that ISY belongs to outside of Myanmar. Each year ISY sends students to athletic, Model United Nations conferences and arts festivals. These events are a very valuable opportunity for our students to connect with other like minded students across Southeast Asia. This section in the Athletics and Activities blog will outline some of the important information and general happenings around SEASAC events.

SEASAC Dates:
SEASAC Touch Rugby @ UWCE, February 2, 3 and 4
SEASAC Basketbal Girls @ Kuala Lumpur Alice Smith School, February 2, 3 and 4
SEASAC Basketball Boys @ NIST, February 2, 3 and 4
SEASAC Arts Festival @ GIS and MKIS, February 2, 3 and 4

Community Sport

Every Saturday a group of ISY community plays badminton and pickleball in the ISY gym. This is from 3:00-5:00 PM. 

If you are interested in playing either of these community sports please come along at the given day and time and you will be welcomed.

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ISY Sports Broadcasting

Last year a sports broadcasting club was started at ISY. They were able to cover some of our high school basketball games with great success. They produced a very professionally polished product.
This year they will cover our high school athletics for the whole year. If you are interested in this please follow the link below and this will lead you to the group’s Youtube page. So far the group has covered two high school volleyball games and some of the high school basketball games from last year.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIzBh86SGxeV22RG6ZHYW2g

Questions or More Information

As always, if you have any questions about what is in this blog or anything else that you may think of related to activities or athletics please feel free to contact me at:

josullivan@isyedu.org

Kindest regards,

Mr. Jonathan O’Sullivan

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