DepEd, Calbayog gov’t break ground for reg'l senior high school campus

photo from LGU Calbayog Bulletin Facebook Page

CALBAYOG CITY, Samar ( Oct. 14) – The Department of Education (DepEd) Eastern Visayas and the city government here broke the ground on Wednesday for the region’s Senior High School (SHS) for Arts and Design campus.

The stand-alone school, which will be named Calbayog City Regional Senior High School for Arts and Design, will solely offer Arts and Design track starting next year on the course of the K to 12 program full implementation.

It will rise in a 2.7-hectare land owned by the local government located in Tomalon Estate, Gadgaran village, which will be lent to DepEd through a Deed of Usufruct.

On the other hand, construction of infra structures like classrooms, laboratories, dormitory and other facilities will be shouldered by DepEd.

Calbayog City is known to be the Center of Arts and Culture in the region and the presence of artists in the various fields in art and culture in this locality inspires DepEd to choose the city as the site for the Regional Senior High School for Arts and Design under the K to 12 program.

DepEd Region Director Luisa Bautista-Yu said the Calbayog City Regional Senior High School for Arts and Design will cater to students of this city other parts of the region who have interest in arts and design with specialization in media and visual arts, performing arts and literary arts.

Not only Calbayognons but students from all over Region-8 aiming to enhance their skills on arts and designs are now...

Posted by LGU Calbayog Bulletin on Tuesday, October 13, 2015

The DepEd official also seeks public’s support to make the project a reality, and advocate the school to other divisions in the region.
“Let us help one another to make this a reality, this is not only for Calbayog, this is for the whole region and for the whole country,” Yu said.

Mayor Ronaldo Aquino on his State of the City Address mentioned that education was one of the city’s priority programs.

Aquino said that aside from lending to DepEd a parcel of land for the senior high school, the city also allotted Php 60 million under the 2016 budget for the construction of circumferential road leading to the campus.

The official added that choosing Calbayog as the seat for the regional SHS for arts and design only proved that the city remained and would always be the seat of arts and culture in the region.

“With this campus in Calbayog only proves that the city remains and will always be the seat of arts and culture in Eastern Visayas.” Aquino said.

Meanwhile, education program supervisor Noel Sagayap is very optimistic that they will reach the 160 target of enrolees for the first batch of Grade 11 at the new campus next school year for the full implementation of K to 12.

Sagayap said that based on the career guidance they had conducted with the present Grade 10 student showed that a lot of them was interested to enroll in the said track.

The former division office in Calbayog East Central School will be the temporary school site of the Regional Senior High School for Arts and Design while waiting for the construction of classrooms in Tomalon Estate to be finished.

He also assured the public that whatever facilities needed for the said senior high school would surely be provided.

“DepEd assures the public especially those who are interested to enroll in the said school the facilities will be available and laboratories will be well-equipped to meet the needs of the students since the department had already allocated a budget for the 17 senior high school for arts and design across the country and one of this is in Calbayog,” he added.

The education department has scheduled Oct. 19 to 23, 2015 as early enrollment for the senior high school. (PNA)

DepEd picks Calbayog as center of arts for K to 12 senior high

from: LGU Calbayog Bulletin Facebook Page

[Feb. 24] CALBAYOG CITY -- The Department of Education (DepEd) has picked this city as the center of arts and design for the full implementation of kindergarten and 12 years of basic education (K to 12) in 2016.

In an interview, education program supervisor Noel Sagayap of DepEd Calbayog City division, said that the department has chosen the city as the center for said field of study since the area is known as haven of famous artists not only in the region, but as well as across the nation.

He added that Calbayog is the only city in Eastern Visayas with an active and established City Arts and Culture Office. The city is as well known for its colorful and festive cultural activities, famous in dance and choral performances and different arts competitions.

Meanwhile, Arnold Jaraba, DepEd Calbayog City division focal person for K to 12 program said that DepEd will establish a separate campus for the said field of study, aside from the existing national high schools that will offer senior high school programs.

The Regional High School for Arts and Design will be constructed in a lot donated by the city government in Tomalon Estate. A dormitory will also be constructed and will be available for students coming from different places in the region.

According to Jaraba, all students from different parts of Eastern Visayas who has interest in arts will enroll in the said school, but only limited to at least 160 students.

Calbayog City Mayor Ronald Aquino meets with DepEd

Calbayog regarding the construction of  the school.

from: LGU Calbayog Bulletin Facebook Page

The official has been visiting different schools in the city as part of the program’s advocacy campaign, and explain to parents and students the context of the program.

The DepEd began the enhanced basic education program by launching universal kindergarten in school year 2011-2012, followed by a new curriculum for Grade 7 in school year 2012-2013. School year 2016-2017 will mark the formal implementation of the Grade 11 curriculum, to be followed by the Grade 12 curriculum in school year 2017-2018. (PNA)
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DepEd Eastern Visayas trains more campus journalism mentors

TACLOBAN CITY, Aug. 10 (PNA) -- Another 400 campus paper advisers from elementary schools in Eastern Visayas joined the second batch of the four-day regional training of division mentors on school paper advising that concluded Saturday at Leyte National High School gymnasium.

“Your challenge is to be fruitful with this encounter,” said Dr. Alejandrito L. Yman, chief of Curriculum and Learning Management Division, as he hoped that the region will have 10 “winnable” school papers for both elementary and secondary levels in next year’s National Schools Press Conference in Koronadal City, South Cotabato.

With the combined training of more than 400 high school campus paper advisers in the first batch and 400 elementary advisers in the second batch, Yman said he expects 8,000 trained student writers in Eastern Visayas, doubling or tripling the effect from the two trainings.

“Journalism contests have elements to consider unlike ordinary essay writing contest so advisers have to be equipped...This is the forum to unify concepts, ideas, and knowledge with particular journalism field so that writers will now have to compete and are at par with theothers,” added Yman.

Journalistic skills introduced during the training include news writing, copy reading and headline writing, feature writing, science and technology writing, editorial writing, sports writing, photojournalism, editorial cartooning, on-line collaborative publishing, and script and radio broadcasting.

Topics on plagiarism, editorial staff management, lay-outing and new trends in campus journalism were also discussed by different resource speakers from the region who were earlier trained in the national training of trainers on campus journalism in Davao City.

Yman added that after the training, participants will serve as new pool of trainers in their respective division and school level.

Harold Naputo of Tacloban division and an outstanding campus paper adviser in the region, who helped introduced collaborative and online publishing during the training, said that online journalism is “empowering.”

“In online writing, we introduce our school paper advisers twitter, instagram, facebook, you tube and wordpress. These social media platforms are to be learned and ultimately be utilized both for recreation and perfecting the craft in e-journalism,” Naputo said.

“By the end of the training, with advisers empowered, we would have taught our pupils or students an alternative to the use of the social media, more than 'selfies' and 'cyber-liking' which leads to bullying, but on how information and opinion-empowering effect these platforms can make,” he added.

In the recently-held NSPC in Taguig City, the region only bagged 21 major awards in various journalistic competitions, with “The Cradle” publication of Palo National High School in Palo, Leyte as the sole winner in school paper category in science and technology.

However, journalism officials in the region vowed to make a better comeback in next year’s nationwide journalistic competition. (PNA)
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