Dear Chinthes,

The first full week of school has been completed. It has been a full week of high school athletics as some of our teams have started practicing with some middle school teams starting next week. Swim tryouts were held this week and another trial day will be next week. Please read below for high school and middle school athletics and swim team information. Also, please look at our new SEASAC (Southeast Asian Student Activities Conference) section for any dates and information around SEASAC.
Another important part of school life here at ISY is after school activities (ASAs). ASAs give all our students an opportunity to experience service learning opportunities as well as different cultural and sports activities.
ASAs will start next week. Please read the ASA section below for more information about ASA times, days and places.

After School Activities 

On Monday 28th August, the first session of After School Activities will begin. You may check the confirmed After School Activities lists students have successfully registered for in PowerSchool. Elementary School students will meet after school outside the Elementary School main building and their ASA instructors will pick them up from there. All Secondary Students should note the location of their ASA and go directly there for a 2:40 start.

ASA Times:

Elementary school ASAs 2:25-3:05

Middle and high school ASAs 2:40-3:25

Elementary School Athletics

Make up swim team trials will be held next week. Please read below in “Swim Team” for information on how to sign up and what is expected of swimmers.

Middle School Athletics

The Yangon Citywide Invitational Table Tennis Tournament will be held on the 9th of September at Yangon International School. Signup sheets will be placed outside the gym main doors Monday next week. Please look out for these and add your name if you are interested in representing ISY at this tournament.
Middle school basketball season is upon us! All students wishing to play basketball should add their names to the signup sheets outside the main gym doors. These will be taken down on Monday afternoon. Practice will start for all interested athletes on Wednesday, 30th at 3:30-4:30 and Friday, 2nd at 3:30-4:30.
There will be some games against other schools and teams will be selected for these games. However, everyone is welcome to join practices.
If there are any middle school swim team members that would like to play basketball please talk to your swim and basketball coaches about a compromised practice schedule.

Make up swim team trials will be held next week. Please read below in “Swim Team” for information on how to sign up and what is expected of swimmers.

High School Athletics

The Yangon Citywide Invitational Table Tennis Tournament will be held on the 9th September at Yangon International School. Signup sheets will be placed outside the gym main doors on Monday next week. Please look out for these and add your name if you are interested in representing ISY at this tournament.
Trials have concluded for high school volleyball this week. Successful athletes should be informed shortly by the respective coaches. The first game for the High School girls and boys teams will be against Yangon International School on Tuesday, 29th August, starting at approximately 3:45 PM. All supporters are welcome.
Football trials have also started for the boys High School team and fitness and skills training have started for the girls. There are some good skills that were worked on last year and these are coming through this year as well. This season should be promising for ISY football.
Make up swim team trials will be held next week. Please read below in “Swim Team” for information on how to sign up and what is expected of swimmers.

SEASAC Information

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.
Volleyball and football teams have started their trials/training for the upcoming SEASAC season. The students are looking forward to the chance of representing ISY internationally. Over the next two months these young athletes will be showing discipline when training with their respective teams.
SEASAC golf and SEASAC cross country signup sheets have been taken down. If you still would like to sign up for either of these two teams it is not too late.
Note, golf and cross country do not conflict with volleyball or football.

SEASAC Dates:
SEASAC Football @ British School Jakarta, November 3, 4, 5
SEASAC Volleyball @ NIST, Bangkok, November 3, 4, 5
SEASAC Golf @ Bangkok Patana School, November 22, 23, 24
SEASAC Cross Country @ Garden International School, Singapore, November 24, 25

Swim Team

Swim trials were held at the beginning of this week. There will be trials for those that missed out next week on Monday the 28th immediately after school. Please contact the Athletics Office for more information on the swim team trials.
Successful trialists will be informed by email after the trials have finished.

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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