MOA Signing: GSCPO molds Metrians future law enforcers Dollyn Angel Camacho
CONNECTING COMMUNITY AND SCHOOL. GSCPO City Director PCOL Jomar Alexis A Yap (right) and Deputy City Director For Admin (Dcda) PLTCOL Jaime D Chavez (left) agreed upon goals and outcomes as they pledge for school community partnership to enhance learning for the well being of the entire school through MOA signing.
General Santos City Police Office set forth hand-in-hand to collaborate with Irineo L. Santiago National High School of Metro Dadiangas through a Memorandum of Agreement signing to better prepare and mold future law enforces through on the job experience, March 13, 2023. Irineo L. Santiago NSHMD aims to have open schoolcommunity partnership with GSCPO, under Police Regional Office 12 of the Philippine National Police (PNP) to provide students an experience for their career in law enforcement. Also, this partnership will open an opportunity for both parties for shared vision for learning and developmental outcomes for students. Formally sealing the partnership, the parties who set their hands on the agreement included GSCPO City Director
PCOL Jomar Alexis A. Yap and School Principal Iris R. Visaya in the presence of Deputy City for admin PLTCOL Jaime D. Chavez and Jinky J. Agbon, immersion teacher. Genevieve D. Humpay, 12 HUMSS Galingan student believed that this experience will mobilize each student’s ability to adapt in professional environments and better prepare for progression of work experience. “During work immersion, we will be able to apply the basics that we learn in our pursued profession especially in criminology because this program allowed us to experience the workplace in advance.” Humpay said. 61 students who chose to pursue the field of criminology had their immersion held at Camp Fermin G. Lira, Brgy. Dadiangas West, General Santos City with the assistance of the Philippine National Police (PNP) workforce.
Never too late to learn
Project i-REACH aims reading excellence
Reading may be seen as an easy and basic skill for students in high school, yet this was the area of learning few of learners had difficulties and struggles with. Living a life with his broken family, Bryle (not his real name), a Grade 10 student at Irineo L. Santiago National High School, has had his fair share of a life full of pressure and confusion. After the long period of distance learning, he continues to thrive for learning as he enters the fourth year of high school. However, his inability to properly read at the age of 17 was a primary barricade towards his academic progress. "There was a time when I considered dropping out. I could not understand a thing, be it my life or the letters I see," he said in Cebuano, fiddling his fingers. While students his age raise their hands during
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reading recitations, Bryle would sit in his chair in silence. No one has the idea he cannot read. On the other hand, another Grade 10 student, Jerome (not his real name), shares the same case. Unable to read a word during the recently conducted PHIL-IRI, he approaches his English teacher, Bernadette Falcatan, with teary eyes, confessing a shocking reality: he could not read. "It crushed my heart to know that. I empathized with them, and as a teacher, I took the responsibility of teaching the two how to read," Falcatan revealed. Rowing on the same boat, Bryle and Jerome are supposed to be polishing their reading skills along with their batch mates, but their predicament prevented them from doing so.
"I hate that I envy my classmates whenever I see them reading fluently, I just wish I could do the same," Bryle stuttered while being interviewed. With the project iREACH: Improve: Read Every Day, Achieve, Conquer, & Heighten, proposed by Leziel Love Alminiana, English Department Head, along with the reading coordinator Khalid Cuevas and with the assistance of Bernadette Falcatan, the then Department head, Bryle and Jerome will pave the way to reading excellence. Attending each session every day at 1 p.m., both students significantly enhanced their reading abilities. Even though they still have trouble with some phrases, at least they can now speak the words they used to merely stare at, Falcatan ended.
PhilSys urges Metrians to register for National ID Ira Beyounce Magdaluyo
In view of PHILSYS persistent conduct of Philippine Identification System (PhilSys) in schools in collaboration with the Department of Education (DepEd), PSA reaches and urges students of Irineo L. Santiago National High School of Metro Dadiangas to register on Tuesday, March 7. In order to register the entire population of the young Filipino citizen under the newly mandated Republic Act No. 1105, the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys) pioneered the PHILSYS
National ID Registration, this partnership supports PSA’s goal of registering children aged five (5) years old and over, teachers, administrative staff, and even their family members within school premises. The registration encourages the citizens of our country, particularly the students to partake in the said mandatory registration as it has been recognized by the Philippine Constitution. Mr. Jackaria G. Samama, PhilSys Registration center screener, highlighted that an estimated of 489 students have registered on the campus, presenting the
necessary documentation, including a student ID and an enrollment form. “Their [the student’s] registration is imperative as they are a part of the Philippine Constitution. Since PhilSys has been enacted by our government, it is very important that we abide by it, especially our youth, for future purposes,” Samama said in Filipino. According to Samama, there is still no definite date as to when the National ID registration will conclude inside the campus due to the unending approach of students for the registration.
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Irineo L. Santiago NHSMD bans plastic use Ira Beyounce P. Magdaluyo
TO PRESERVE AND CONSERVE. YES-O volunteers on re-segregation of plastic bottles and other wastes in support of Pwera Basura project.
To increase awareness of proper waste management, accountability, and eco-friendliness among students, teachers, and school personnel, the Youth for Environment in School Organization (YES-O) of ILSNHSMD launched Waste Management project dubbed as “Pwera Basura!”, January 9. The launching was headed by the YES-O coordinator Meai G. Mendoza with her vision to further ecological waste management to promote zero waste advocacy through educating school community on collective responsibility of waste management. “A large number of plastics and disposable materials produced in schools are waste problems that need to be addressed. Recycling waste, segregation and ensuring proper disposal are cleanliness measures that will be integrated in every
classroom policy”, Mendoza said in her speech during the launching of the program encouraging the school staffs, students, and teachers to cooperate on the said project. Upon full implementation, bringing and using plastics and other disposable materials inside the campus are strictly prohibited and any violations will result to consequences.Moreover, usage of mugs or tumblers for drinking and plates and bowls as food containers will be encouraged to utilize reusable containers and promote a plasticfree environment. YES-O officers shall work along with the school’s organizations and staffs to reduce, if not eliminate, the use of plastics and other disposable materials on the school ground and its premises to hasten the segregation process through constant monitoring.