Cubay Elementary School Improving Physically

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In the division of La Carlota, Cubay Elementary School plant is gaining momentum for her periodic physical improvement through the efforts of her active external stakeholders.

Funds were derived from donations of education friends and supporters like the parents, the barangay council members, the government officials and the monthly budget of the school prepared for the minor repair and maintenance.

CES, in a recent Brigada Eskwela, a national school maintenance week, before the formal opening of regular classes, has more than 200 volunteers representing the different sectors in the community, took their time in cleaning the school surroundings, repainting the externals walls of the classrooms, mowing the lawn, and repairing some defective blackboards, chairs, doors and windows. BE has contributed a lot in making the school ready for the school opening.

La Carlota ALS Joins Tree Planting

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) of La Carlota City conducted recently a tree planting activity at the protected area of Kanlaon Park at the upper Sitio Nailab, Brgy. Ara-al, La Carlota City. This is in connection with its national greening program of the government.

Alternative Learning System (ALS) mobile teacher, Ms. Corazon Aloro organized her group with a nod from their education program supervisor Avelino N. Santillan. Eleven ALS representatives composed of the learners and their respective instructional managers and mobile teachers to participate to this one-day tree planting.

The involvement of ALS to this NGP of DENR is the realization of the Department of Education commitment to the PNOY 1-Billion Project of the Aquino administration to protect the environment by planting trees.

Cubay Elem. School Earthquake Drill

My school, Cubay Elementary School as a routine activity on disaster preparedness and consciousness conducted an earthquake drill Thursday, July 11, 2013.

Earthquake drill

Before this is done, we have to satisfy first the four stages of the earthquake like planning or organizing the earthquake drill, developing the school earthquake evacuation plan, orientation prior to the conduct of earthquake drill, and the actual conduct of earthquake drill.

These stages where already discussed to the members of the school disaster management committee and to the pupils last year. This year's activity is a follow-up. We the school heads do understand that this earthquake drill would only be effective if it is done regularly. Not only done, when some parts of the country is experiencing a calamity like the earthquake. "Constant practice makes perfect" so to speak.

Phases of Earthquake Drill (PageWise, 2002)

In conducting the earthquake drill, there are 6 phases of self-explanatory things to comply with, such as Phase 1 - Alarm, Phase 2 - Response, Phase 3 - Evacuation, Phase 4 - Assembly, Phase 5 - Head count, and Phase 6 - Evaluate.