Dear Chinthes,

After School Activities sign ups have closed and all details on the students’ ASAs can be found in PowerSchool. Please read below for information on ASAs in the After School Activity section.
Last week ISY hosted its second friendly swim meet for the school year. This was the biggest one yet. Please read below in the Swim Team section for more information.
Next week we will wish four teams luck as they travel to their respective SEASAC competitions/events. Please continue reading the SEASAC section for more information about these teams.
Next week in athletics we host International School Myanmar for girls and boys high school basketball and in middle school football ISY are away to ISM and home to ILBC International School. Please refer to the Upcoming Athletics and Events section for more information on these sports and practice times.

After School Activities 

Sign ups for ASAs have closed so here are a couple of things to consider.

Parents will be able to check their child(ren)’s ASA schedule on PowerSchool. They will also be able to check where and when the ASAs will be and who is the ASA supervisor. This information will be automatically updated as changes are made to the students’ ASA schedules.

After the second week of ASAs, February 9, there will be no more changing from one ASA to another. Please make any changes to your child(ren)’s ASA schedule before this time.

The times for ASAs are as follows:

Elementary school ASA 2:20 – 3:05 PM
Middle and high school ASA 2:40-3:25 PM

ISY Invertational Friendly Swim Meet

Swim Team

Last Friday ISY hosted its second friendly invitational swim meet. In attendance at the meet were, Network International School, ILBC International School, My Myanmar International School, Alba International School, MLA International School and Heroes International School. This was the biggest swim meet held at ISY since the school reopened and it was a huge success.
The place to be on Friday night was the ISY pool. It was really great to see so many athletes and supporters in the pool area. I almost had to put out the “Sold Out” sign because there were so many people. And, with so many people comes a great atmosphere. The pool was rocking!
This was very exciting for our swimmers and this sort of support always gives an athlete a boost.
Most of our swimmers recorded personal best times and were competitive in all of their races. All of our swimmers had a good time.
I want to thank all the volunteers, coaches and parents that came out on Friday evening. I also want to thank the athletes for doing their best in training and on competition day.

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

SEASAC Information

On Thursday morning, ISY will be sending four teams to various SEASAC events/tournaments in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. These events will be SEASAC girls and boys basketball, SEASAC girls touch rugby and the SEASAC arts festival.

The boys basketball and girls touch rugby teams will both play their tournaments in Singapore. Boys basketball will play at the Australian International School and girls touch rugby will be played at United World College East.

The girls basketball and arts festival will both be held in Kuala Lumpur. The girls basketball will be held at Kuala Lumpur Alice Smith School and the arts festival will be held jointly between Garden International School and Mont’ Kiara International School.

It is exciting for our arts festival students because this is the first time since 2019 that a SEASAC Arts Festival has been held. I am very happy that ISY has an arts contingent for this returning event.

I am sure you will all join me in wishing all of our students the very best of luck and skill at these events.

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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