Looking astounding in their evening dresses and coats and ties, Year 10 and Year 11 had their Summer ball at Viverè Hotel in Alabang last March 26, 2010.

With the theme, Viva, Las Vegas!, this event was organized by the different committees from Year 10 headed by Angeli Patiño and Ezra Sumbillo, supervised by their form tutor, Ms. Hedy Ingalla. Their main goal was to give tribute to the senior students as they are about to graduate and leave the institution.

The party started with a red-carpet entrance of all students. The turnover ceremonies, where the senior students bestowed their responsibilies to the juniors, was followed by a non-traditional cotillion, which was choreographed by Ms. George Kusano. That modernized dance number signalled the start of the promenade. There were also a series of special numbers, both from Year 10 and Year 11. While having dinner, a tribute video for Year 11 was presented. It included the different activities that they had in the past years, their hardships and victories at IBA and their teachers’ messages as well.

There was also the most-awaited awarding ceremonies of the Prom King and Queen and Prom Prince and Princess which were given to Christian Samillano and Eva Oh of Year 11 and Dustin Calilap and Sabrina Bryan of Year 10, respectively. Minor awardees were also chosen. Dubbed as Best Dressed were Dustin Calilap and Sabrina Bryan of Year 10, Best Dancers were Christian Samillano and Angeli Patiño and the Couple of the Night was awarded to Joshua Gonzales and Angeli Patiño.

A final toast was offered by Ms Yolly Iya who challenged year 10 students to prove their worth and wished Year 11 students good years ahead of them as they enter a wider world of college and universities. Hosted by Ezra Sumbillo, Angeli Patiño, Kristin Butler, Third Ramos and CJ Bautista, the prom was generally enjoyed by all participants.

Tickets are on sale for IBA’s production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat which will be staged on Feb.4 and Feb. 5, 2010 at the Insular Life Corporate Centre Auditorium in Alabang, Muntinlupa.

Check the attached seating plan, choose your seats and reserve by calling 046-4715922 or 046-4715924.  You can also email us at info@iba.edu.ph.

Payments can be made by Gcash to 09178587138, Evelina Patino, Las Pinas or by visiting our offices at Km. 25, Aguinaldo Highway, Anabu II-D, Imus, Cavite.

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The International British Academy will be bringing the popular musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat to the Insular Life Corporate Centre Auditorium in Alabang, Muntinlupa. This prestigious school in Imus, Cavite prides itself in not only providing its students with a sound grounding in the best of British educational traditions but also in exposing its students to a wide variety of cultural experiences.

The large cast of 80 students from both the Primary and Secondary schools is presently involved in rehearsing for this universally popular show. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with lyrics and music by the famed theatrical duo, Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, was first performed in 1968 as a 15-minute pop cantata. Since then nearly 20,000 schools and amateur theatre groups have staged successful performances of a show that has become universal in its popularity.

It tells the story of the Biblical character Joseph’s path from the position of favourite son, then sold into slavery in Egypt and his eventual triumphant return to his family. The story is told through a series of wonderfully memorable songs sung by a narrator and the major characters in the story. What makes this musical so special and enjoyable for performers and audiences alike is the variety of music that is incorporated into the show: from the popular ballad style of Any Dream Will Do, to the Country and Western twang of One More Angel in Heave, to the calypso and faintly reggae rhythms of the Benjamin Calypso with the show climaxing with the thumping disco beat of the Joseph Megamix.

The International British Academy is very fortunate to have in its student body a large group of talented singers and dancers who will most certainly bring this show to life on the stage of the Insular Life Corporate Centre Auditorium in Alabang, Muntinlupa. The show will be staged on February 4^th and 5^th and promises to be an entertaining evening for the whole family.

Tickets are available at P500, P400 and P300 for the February 4^th show while tickets for the February 5 which has a pre-show cocktail are at P700, P600 and P500. For reservations and tickets, kindly contact 046-4715922, 046-4715924 and 0917-8587138.

IBA student, In Yeong Choi of Year 6, was awarded With Distinction in the Australian Mathematics Competition (AMC) that was held simultaneously last August in Australia and in more than 35 other countries worldwide, including the Philippines. A Distinction Certificate is awarded to a student who is in the top 15% of their year and region. Other awardees were Eun Jin Choi, Yu Bin Lee and Marco Patiño who received credit awards. IBA students who also participated in the competition were Patrick Lao, Lourvina Olimpo, Min Woo Yoo who received proficiency awards and Carljan Ray Roca who received a certificate of participation.

Under Mr. Randy Balleras’ tutelage, In Yeong, together with the other awardees trained during the summer holidays in preparation for the AMC, a correspondence type exam, administered by the Australian Mathematics Trust, aimed at highlighting the importance of mathematics as part of the curriculum and discovering talents in mathematics. It is conducted in cooperation with the Mathematics Trainers’s Guild (MTG) and the Australian Mathematics Trust.

The contest paper consists of 30 multiple choice questions, which are ordered in increasing difficulty. Students are given 75 minutes to solve the problems which cover arithmetic, algebra, geometry and problem-solving.

Over 2,000 Filipino elementary and high school students took part in the AMC, administered here by AMT representatives, MTG and the Science Education Institute of the Department of Science and Technology.

IBA students took the opportunity to rekindle the spirit of being a Filipino when they celebrated “Linggo ng Wika” on August 28, 2009.

This year’s celebration, with theme “Wikang Filipino, Mula Baler Hanggang Buong Pilipinas” (From Baler to the Rest of the Philippines), focused on the different literary pieces which exhibit the sophistication of the Filipino literature.

One of highlights of the celebration was the “Arko de Sagala”, a costume contest which featured different literary characters like bida and his sidekick (hero and his assistant), bida-kontrabida (the hero and the villain) and the love teams found in the array of our Filipino stories like Maria Clara and Crisostomo Ibarra, Florante at Laura, Malakas at Maganda to name a few. Also, there was a series of classroom competitions like poem and song writing, slogan making and storytelling.

A school-wide ‘salu-salong bayan’ served as the closing stage of the program. Here is the list of the winners in the various competitions:

I. Patimpalak sa Pagsulat ng Malikhain at Makabuluhang Tula (Poem Writing)

Y7—Ma. Patricia Antoinette C. Camatog Y8—Pauline Yves D. Iya Y9—Jabez Joshua De Ocampo Y10—Sabrina Anne F. Bryan

Y11– Mary Louise V. Sangalang

II. Patimpalak sa Masining na Pagkukuwento

Unang Gantimpala—Angeliez Elaine Gutt

Ikalawang Gantimpala—Chantal Marie M. Ceralde

Ikatlong Gantimpala—Janelle Marie O. Tesoro

III. Patimpalak sa Sulat-Awit Tagalog

Joy Luville S. Mahinay

IV. Patimpalak sa Paggawa ng Poster

Primary: Unang Gantimpala—Year 6

Ikalawang Gantimpala—Year 5

Ikatlong Gantimpala – Year 4

Secondary:

Unang Gantimpala—Year 11

Ikalawang Gantimpala—Year 9

Ikatlong Gantimpala—Year 8

V. Patimpalak sa Paggawa ng Malikhaing Bulletin Board

Primary: Unang Gantimpala—Year 5

Ikalawang Gantimpala—Year 4

Ikatlong Gantimpala—Year 6

Secondary: Unang Gantimpala—Year 11

Ikalawang Gantimpala—Year 10

Ikatlong Gantimpala—Year 8

VI. Arko De Sagala

Nursery—Jihye A. Moon at Carl Daniel Emmarson G. Kee

Reception—Sophia Althea R. Sarreal at Jerico Dion Arpon

Y1—Razen Cyrille F. Prado at Daryll James P. Palestra

Y2-Y4– Joneeka Nicole R. Guevarra at Willen Paul S. Yumang

Y5-Y7—Ye Jin Bae at Sean Won Moon

Y8-Y11– Unang Gantimpala: Madelfia Nichole S. Fauni at Kevin Rolland B. Allen

Ikalawang Gantimpala: Kristin Vendora P. Butler at Jan D. Vercouteren

Ikatlong Gantimpala: Mc. John Lyndon B. Zabala at Patricia H. Eriksen