Benguet town gets 2 – storey classroom
SM PRIME Holdings, SM Foundation and Philippine Stock Exchange Foundation (PSEF) turned over a 2storey, 4-classroom school building to Tuba Central School. This makes the first school building that was ever donated in Tuba, Benguet last August 9.
The new school building is furnished with 200 armchairs (20 armchairs are designed for left-handed students), four teacher’s desk sets, 16 wall fans, eight blackboards, four wall clocks and four toilets plus a PWD ramp and PWD toilet. It is emergency-ready with accessible staircases on both sides, a fire alarm bell, and emergency lights at the staircases’ landings.
The donation is a welcome addition to the school, since the enrollment in Tuba Central School is increasing, recording a high enrollment for the past five years.
“This building is a big help for all of us since our school population is growing and we need more rooms to accommodate us. We promise to give utmost care to the building and other facilities and use it for its purpose,” said Supreme Pupil Government president Allison Benito Gapungli.
School Principal Lucila Abance added the new school building will serve as an avenue for the learners to be developed holistically in order to compete globally.
SM Foundation Head Juris Soliman overlooked the construction of the school building and said that their team will return to make repairs and fixes when necessary. In addition, in every five years, they will return to repaint the building.
SM Foundation is an active member of DepEd’s Adopt-ASchool Program since
2002. Tuba Central School is the 94th recipient of a school building from SM.
SM has also donated school buildings around Baguio such as Lucban Elementary School, Pinsao National High School, Irisan National High School, Josefa Cariño Elementary School, and Manuel L. Quezon Elementary School.
On a single-shift class, at least 15,050 students are benefitting from the 94 school buildings constructed by SM. This includes 304 classrooms including 15,050 armchairs (120 chairs are for left-handed children), 602 blackboards, 220 sets of teacher’s desk/ table, 1,198 wall fans, 315 washrooms including PWD toilets.
Present at the inauguration are Tuba Mayor Clarita Sal-ongan, SM Foundation Executive Director Debbie Pe Sy, SM Foundation Executive Director for Education Linda Atayde, SM Foundation Trustee Engr. Ramon Gil S. Macapagal, Philippine Stock Exchange Chief Operating Officer Atty. Roel A. Refran, DepEd Assistant Schools Division Superintendent Nestor Bolayo and other DepEd representatives. A PERSON having a sound mind and a good reputation have the capability of doing good to the society especially to the people in the community. With a fresh and clear mind, an individual can be more productive as he wants to be that will help in developing further their personalities that will be of great help to ensure no a progressive nation.
In the school, a teacher who is not in good standing is not in any ways a good facilitator of education process and surely, the students will suffer. Such condition will deter the pupils to learn as a physically and mentally unfit teacher creates a bad learning atmosphere.
Teachers with problems be it emotionally, economically among others have the tendency to bring it to the schools they are teaching. And their concentration in helping the development of the pupils will be much affected as their minds are overwhelmed by their problems. The result? aside from the teachers failing themselves and will add if not develop to their depression, the pupils will have lesser interest to learn or go to school.
The teachers also need continuous development, through endless education and wellness enhancement. They have to be in good condition to be good teachers.
Pupils will learn to love their teachers if they see them having good auras in school. A smiling teacher with a "shining" disposition can be the the better if not the best educator in the learning center or schools.
But, it should not only be the teachers that will take care of their well-being. While it is up to them to do the most efforts in their development, the community they are into have also responsibilities in helping the teachers to be good teachers and productive citizens. It should also be the responsibility of their co-teachers, co-employees, their bosses and the institutions they are into to ensure a helpful environment for them to shine and have strong self-confidence.
If such be achieved, the teaching-learning process will be as healthy as it should be.