2014 Area IV Meet: One in Purpose, Spirit, Determination

by Gil Camporazo

All roads lead to a costal town of Pulupandan which hosts the 3-day athletic meet in the 4th congressional district of Negros Occidental. Pulupandan is one of the 19 municipalities in the Province of Negros Occidental in Region VI, Western Visayas, Philippines. Pulupandan's name originated from a local dialect, Hiligaynon phrase "Pulo sang Pandan", that is, "isle of pandan".

Area IV Athletic Meet 2014

In an-hour rites, Pulupandan Mayor Miguel C. Peña welcomes the athletic delegations coming from Pontevedra, San Enrique, Valladolid, La Carlota, Bago and including the host, Pulupandan athletes in this year 2014 meet held at the oval of the public plaza.

In a statement, Peña said that sports activities are an important aspect of education in order to produce well-rounded student. He further said that event's purpose is to foster goodwill, friendship, and sportsmanship between the competing students and schools.

Pontevedra Mayor Jose Maria A. Alonso, in a statement too, said that teem building is practised to its fullest and each participant feels being a part of the whole. He continued that the area meet indeed develops the participants to be themselves and also be member of their teams striving for self-identity and recognition.

Why I Love Scouting?

by Gil Camporazo

"I love scouting. I love scouting. Hail. I love scouting all the way." There goes the community singing led by Institutional Head (IH) Alejandro Ticao, Scout Course Leader and at the same time the Scout Field Commissioner of the Division of La Carlota as the 3rd Patrol Leader Training Course (PLTC) and Crew Leader Training Course (CLTC) in its opening ceremony.

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As one of the members of the support staff and discussants, it starts refreshing my 54 years in scouting. It reverberates in mind the scouting ideals, oath and law, its history, its founder, its role in character and nation building.

And it also freshens my unforgettable experiences in various scouting activities like outdoor camping, hiking, orienteering, stargazing, knot tying, cooking without utensil, putting up of the tent, and scouting games, songs and yells.

My elementary scouting days and how my mother permitted me to participate in my first out-of-town outdoor camping as far as Cadiz City in the north, noted as city of whales and as far as Himamaylan in the south, and as far as Alibunan, Calinog, Iloilo Province in Panay Island, across Guimaras Strait. And the farthest place in the country which I attended as far as national scouting jamboree is concerned was in Subic, Pampanga in Luzon.

The Child Well-being Is Everyone's Business

by Gil Camporazo

Have you read the African literature that it takes the whole community to educate the child? And providing the child his education is one of his inalienable rights. To fully cater to the holistic development of the child, his nature should seriously be taken into account.

In my practical point of view as asked by the first trainor, Mam Castro of Doña Hortencia Salas Benedicto National High School (DHSBNHS), Balabag Extension, I have defined child's traits through an acrostic like C for curious, H for humble, I for inquisitive, L for loving, and D for desirous to know more, an endless crave for knowledge.

There are situations, events, incidents in the life of the child that his rights are not respected, are not observed instead they're withheld and even curtailed. They're even maltreated, abused, exploited. That is why to address this malpractices of parents, relatives, and even teachers who handle them during class hours, there measures may include proper information dissemination, training for the parents, and community-sharing responsibility.

Drumbeating with Kids

by Gil Camporazo

My new school assignment, Balabag Elementary School annually is participating in Pasalamat Festival of La Carlota City, a week-long thanksgiving occasion for a bounty harvest of the city. There are a lot of merry-making activities and competition. One of the highlights of the said festivity is a rhythm contest of the official samba beat created by the late City Mayor Luis "Nonoy" Jalandoni.

This rhythm contest is categorized into two, the adult and the kid. The adult is representing their own barangay, while the kid is representing their school and our pupils are one of them. They call themselves as Tribu Mahogany.

La Carlota Division Bids to CSC Meritocracy

by Gil Camporazo

The small Division of La Carlota has submitted herself for Civil Service Commission (CSC) accreditation under the Program to Institutionalize Meritocracy and Excellence in Human Resource Management (PRIME-HRM) recently.

CSC Field Personnel Ramon Refugio, Jr. and Lucrecia Garces conducted the 2-day evaluation. Twenty-three school heads, 40 master teachers, and several non-teaching personnel were interviewed based on four sections of PRIME-HRM core areas.

PRIME-HRM looks into the assessment on human resource management practices and capabilities of agencies, service for best practices in the human resource management, promotion for exchange and development of expertise in the area of HRM between and among government agencies, empowerment of agencies, and promotion and reward for excellence on HRM practices, according to CSC Memorandum Circular No. 3, s, 2013, dated February 16, 2014.

How To Solve Non-display of EBEIS Side Bar

by Gil Camporazo

All public and private elementary and secondary schools and even state universities are required to submit online their statistics for processing and validation to improve the Enhanced Basic Education Information System (EBEIS) of the Department of Education (DepEd) for school year 2014-2015.

For the public elementary and secondary schools, the cut-off date for data collection, processing and validation is June 6, 2014.

Problem Encountered

Some schools have reported to the closed group of Learner Information System Helpdesk, School Forms Reenginerring Team (SFRT), and EBEIS Helpdesk that they couldn't effect their updating tasks which will be due on August 31 for encoding and submission, validation on September 1 - 12, 2014, the non-display of their EBEIS left side bar which displays the basic button like EBEIS Data Entry.

DepEd Teachers To Undergo Computer Hardware Servicing Training

Avelino N Santillan, La Carlota Division ICT coordinator informed this blogger that 38 computer-literate teachers will be trained on Computer Hardware Servicing NC II for 6 Saturdays.

Santillan

The training will commence on August 23, and will be completed on September 27, 2014 It will be held at the computer room of Dona Hortencia Salas Benedicto National High School, La Carlota City.

La Carlota SDS Portia M Mallorca has issued a Division Memorandum No 61, series 2014 to this effect It states there that the teacher-participants will be trained to develop a skill on computer hardware servicing.

These teachers who are entitled for this free training will be taken from 5 high schools, and 3 districts They're required to bring with them plier, Philip screw driver, crimping tools, tester, side-cutting plier, and computer hardware like desktop computer, with DVD/CD ROM, printer, and extension cord.

Geeree: Budding Trainer Animator To Watch

First Trainer's Training for Animation in the Division of La Carlota City was recently conducted for 5 days on animation for enhancing classroom teaching.

Thirty-five teachers including the Alternative Learning System (ALS) instructional managers (IMs) underwent the training handled by ICT teachers like Jeffrey Castel, Jr. and Karl Agreda of Dona Hortencia Salas Benedicto National High School.

Using their own laptop, the trainer-trainees have received hands-on activity from their instructors. The training was limited to the fundamental of Adobe Flash, Webpage and Animation.

Our youngest daughter, Geeree Camporazo, ALS IM was one of the two participants whose output on animation was chosen for actual presentation during the closing program. While presenting it to the big screen, she expounded the basic operation in making the walking man and woman coming from opposite direction with a lively music background  for several minutes of running-time.

Of His Return Suprises Us

Former Elder Mark Anthony C. Malig of Pampanga, Philippines as one of those faithful members of the Church, surprised us tonight for his return after serving us here a full-time missionary for three months sometime in November, December and January in 2008.

La Carlota was his last year after completing his 2-year mission here in Region VI, Western Visayas.

Tony Malig how he was regarded by his companion missionaries before is worth remembering not only as a well-esteemed by his fellow missionary and the saints (members) of the Church but many more. It seems yesterday that we were together in attending our Sunday services. It seems yesterday that my youngest son, Gilbor Junior, was his regular ward missionary companion every time they're visiting members, doing some proselyting and teaching referrals and "investigators" of the Church.

How To Beat The Summer Heat Affordably

This summer, we found out more interesting, enjoying and fun in spending our family outing in Linaw Bubon[g] in Sabado de Gloria, a day after the Holy Friday somewhere in the mountain in our locality.

Linaw Bubong, Brgy. San Miguel, La Carlota City

Our Lady's Garden, Perfect Place To Meditate

Finding a place to prayerfully communicate with Our Lady of Peace, everyone may find Our Lady's Garden in small city of La Carlota, Negros Occidental, PH.

Our Lady of Peace Grotto

Whether you are a Catholic faithfuls or not you may find yourselves in complete communion with Our Lady of Peace in a perfect garden made for the purpose wherein a small cave was made or a grotto.

In a small area at the back of the Catholic Church in La Carlota City, Our Lady's Garden is situated. It was blessed sometime in February 2014.

A replica of a big Rosary which beads are made of ceramic tiles, is mounted on the ground and is leading to the huge Grotto of Our Lady of Peace. At the center of te said Rosary is a clear water pond.

Upon entering the gate, a wishing well is easily seen to welcome the religious visitors and even non-Catholics to view this miraculous Blessed Virgin Mary.

Immeasurable Joy of Christmas

Waking up late in the morning, I proceeded to the sala (visitor's lounge) to look for my wife. She's not there. Only my two grandchildren, Toto Bryan and Adgel who were there, preoccupied playing on my laptop and our youngest daughter, Geeree.

I went outside the house and saw her busy attending her plants in the garden, especially her orchids. She jokingly told me from afar that I have failed to greet her this Christmas.

I got nearer, greeted her "Merry Christmas:, and gave her a morning Christmas hug as we laughed out loud for the joy we had of being together in this Christmas Day though some of our children were not around. Some were abroad working. Other within the country. And some had their own family to tender to.

Geeree who was tending a Christmas music played on her cellphone connected to a 32-inch TV monitor, was on the alert to observe us outside her mother's garden.. While overhearing us laughing out loud and seemed to be enjoying, she took her cellphone, and captured the following momentous actions we did.

Reading - The Foundation of Knowledge

Kids love to listen to Storytelling before they learn to read. They're too curious, inquisitive as they listen to story told either by their parents, grandparents, and even their teachers while they're in school.

The month of November has been declared by the Department of Education as National Reading Month of every year to stress the importance of reading as the foundation of knowledge.

It is enjoined that every school in the Division of La Carlota must conduct reading session activities storytelling, Read-A-Thon, Drop Everything and Read (DEAR), among others in celebration of the national reading month.

Our school has conducted a storytelling to the pupils of kindergarten, grades one, two and three by different representatives from the pupils’ parent, guardian and local government unit, who volunteered to read stories with respective moral lesson to the pupils. They used the big books for their reading session.

CES INSET Paves the Way

The recent In-Service Training for the teachers of Cubay Elementary School leads them to do the appropriate series of actions to let their pupils learned. Technology, diversity of learners and community linkages are the identified major factors for the academic development of the pupils.

Technology

The teachers must know how to operate the different media in enhancing their teaching strategies to make their pupils learned.

Information and communication technology (ICT) is the major concern of the teachers of Cubay Eementary School. In their teaching profeciency need, ICT tops as indicated in their NCBTCS - TSNA.

Teachers in their Hands-on training conducted by Mr. Gilbor D. Camporazo,Jr., a programming instructor of Technical Found Institute(TFI) of Bago City, Negros Occidental, PH.

La Carlota District Commemorates 2013 National Family Week

"Unity Across Generation: a Strong Family, a Strong Nation", this year's National Family Week theme has inspired all the saints of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, La Carlota Philippines District as they culminate their week-long family celebration.

A Strong Family, A Strong Nation

The 8 units under the La Carlota District of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints led by their respective branch presidents joined together in the culmination of  the week-long national family week celebration at the La Carlota meetinghouse.

Activities was ushered by caravan of the members of San Enrique, Ayungon, La Carlota first, La Carlota second, Masville, Manggapsang, La Castellana and Moises Padilla. The caravan paraded around the main city streets with the drums and bugle corps of Doña Hortencia Salas Benedicto National High School.

Short program ensued after the parade. During lunch time, "Kainang Pampamilya Mahalaga" was applied by every member having a lunch together with their family member, serving lechon manok as symbol of thanksgiving and unity among the member as they eat together.

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.

Many goes to Cubay Elementary School

June 3 is the opening of regular classes in elementary and secondary schools in the division of La Carlota in this school year 2013-2014. In this day, Cubay Elementary School has nearly got 100% pupils' attendance. This means most of the pupils and even the parents and guardians of the children know the value of school attendance, especially in the first day of the opening of classes.

The pupils in their proper school uniform went to school early and attended their first flag ceremony.

Best Artworks of TMAG

Best of works of Tib-ong Mangkas Art Group (TMAG) need to be discovered and promoted for the artists to become motivated, encouraged to excel more in their artistic skills.

Recently formed group of artists who are residents of La Carlota City joined the Agro-Trade Fair of La Carlota Pasalamat festival.

Best Crafts

They displayed their best art crafts, paintings and relief sculpturing in their humble booth. They were as follows:

TMAG is composed of four natives of Mangkas. They're Abraham Obero, 35; Alfred Chavez, 35; Raffie Salazar, 29; and Redmond Nazareno, 25.

La Carlota Agro-Trade Fair 2013

Local produce of La Carlota City from root crops, fruits, vegetables, ornamental plants, among others are displayed and even offered for sale in an affordable prices in this business fair.

This agro trade fair is a part of the various activities in the week-long La Carlota Pasalamat Festival which kicks off, Apri 22 and culminates on April 25.

Other wholesome feature and family fun-filled togetherness which could be seen and be enjoyed in this week-long activities may include the following: horse back riding, laro ng lahi, and many more.

Yo may take your time and visit the place, La Carlota City and enjoy the fun of this festival.

Indigenization of School Curriculum

The Philippines is rich in cultural heritage in various field like historical events, places, people, traditional beliefs and values, produce and products all over the archipelago.

Along this premise, the Department of Education "aims to make the curriculum responsive to the needs of the people in various locations of the country." To this effect, therefore, education program specialists of different region had come up with a series of local data and pieces of information in a seminar/workshop of local curriculum integration.

Moreover, iIn compliance with the DepED goal: "Decentralize the formulation and development of certain parts of the curriculum in order to foster national cohesiveness, and to respond to needs of different regions and ethnic groups" (BSE, DECS 1998), those EPS conducted an echo seminar.

In so doing, School Principal Gil Camporazo, the author, of Cubay Elementary School, after attending an echo seminar conducted by the Division of La Calota City relayed to his 14 teachers in a one-day workshop which was held at the school learning resource center in March 22, 2013.

Family Outing at New Year's Day 2013

Every first day of the new year, we went to the beach for an outing. This is our tradition to celebrate the coming of the new year and also for a thanksgiving of the goodness of the Lord He has given us in the previous year. This year 2013, we were still at local beach in our place.

Family arriving at the beach

We spent for almost 8 hours at the beach. We brought our extra food in our media noche (midnight supper) for the whole family to partake.