San Isidro Primary School in late March-early April.
Along with Father Raffy De Gracia and his sister Glenny Hallmark, we met with school officials and teachers to discuss current needs and future plans.
Meet Father Raffy De Gracia who oversees our projects at San Isidro...
Here he is taking charge of the planning meeting.
These are some of the exciting things accomplished during our trip:
1. We purchased school supplies and prepared individual packets to be presented to each student on the first day of school this June.
THANK YOU to the Current Issues Class of CANYON VIEW HIGH SCHOOL in Cedar City, Utah for hosting a dance and raising over $300 to purchase these supplies!
2. We purchased visual aids, dictionaries, inflatable globes, log books, and other supplies for teachers to use in their classrooms.
(New teacher log books)
Here are the supplies being loaded onto a jet boat to be transported from Cebu to Bohol, the island where San Isidro is located:
3. We ordered 35 new desks to be placed in a Grade 7 classroom currently being built. This sample is partially stained to show the quality of construction.
Village members contributed building materials and labor to construct the classroom.
4. We contributed a 14" Sony color TV as "Grand Prize" for the school's raffle to raise funds for adding a roof to the new classroom.
Raffle tickets are selling for 5 pesos each (less than 10 cents).
First prize is a large sack of rice.
5. We bought new textbooks for the teachers to use as reference materials for teaching Social Studies and the Filipino language, printed in Tagalog.
This is is typical of the condition of most of the textbooks currently in use.
Head Teacher: Emma L. Guibay
Kindergarten:
Jean R. Reserva
Grade 1:
Lea D. Anosa
Grade 2:
Grades 3 & 4:
Elvie Lopez Josol
Grade 5:
Darla Mae Celades
Grade 6:
Johnber M. Misador
Day Care Worker:
These dedicated teachers work with the children five days a week from 7:30 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.
Often they draw upon their own small incomes to provide visual aids and instructional materials for their classrooms.
Each teacher and administrator will donate a percentage of their monthly income in order to pay the salary of the new Grade 7 teachers.
I have never before witnessed such pride, devotion and community spirit as is evident among the teachers, administrators, parents and students of San Isidro:
We hope to collect and ship many more textbooks since math, reading, and science instruction is in English.
These new desks cost only $20 each.
For about the price of two movie tickets, you can provide a new desk for a child in the San Isidro Integrated School.
Meet Father Raffy De Gracia who oversees our projects at San Isidro...
Here he is taking charge of the planning meeting.
These are some of the exciting things accomplished during our trip:
1. We purchased school supplies and prepared individual packets to be presented to each student on the first day of school this June.
THANK YOU to the Current Issues Class of CANYON VIEW HIGH SCHOOL in Cedar City, Utah for hosting a dance and raising over $300 to purchase these supplies!
2. We purchased visual aids, dictionaries, inflatable globes, log books, and other supplies for teachers to use in their classrooms.
(New teacher log books)
Here are the supplies being loaded onto a jet boat to be transported from Cebu to Bohol, the island where San Isidro is located:
3. We ordered 35 new desks to be placed in a Grade 7 classroom currently being built. This sample is partially stained to show the quality of construction.
Village members contributed building materials and labor to construct the classroom.
4. We contributed a 14" Sony color TV as "Grand Prize" for the school's raffle to raise funds for adding a roof to the new classroom.
Raffle tickets are selling for 5 pesos each (less than 10 cents).First prize is a large sack of rice.
5. We bought new textbooks for the teachers to use as reference materials for teaching Social Studies and the Filipino language, printed in Tagalog.
This is is typical of the condition of most of the textbooks currently in use.
MEET the TEACHERS
Head Teacher: Emma L. Guibay (Responsible for overseeing 4 primary schools)
Kindergarten:
Jean R. Reserva
Grade 1:
Lea D. Anosa
Grade 2:
Michelle Lopez:
[ Not Pictured ]
Grades 3 & 4:
Elvie Lopez Josol
Grade 5:
Darla Mae Celades
Johnber M. Misador
Grade 7:
Alma Lamoste
Grade 8:
Julian Enad
Anamie Matunhay
[ Not pictured ]
These dedicated teachers work with the children five days a week from 7:30 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.
Often they draw upon their own small incomes to provide visual aids and instructional materials for their classrooms.
Each teacher and administrator will donate a percentage of their monthly income in order to pay the salary of the new Grade 7 teachers.
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I have never before witnessed such pride, devotion and community spirit as is evident among the teachers, administrators, parents and students of San Isidro:
- Here, women and children dropped by Glenny's home to help us sort school supplies into individual packets.
- These are a couple of posters created and displayed as guidelines for students in the classroom:
CURRENT PLANS
- SUPPLY TEXTBOOKS
We hope to collect and ship many more textbooks since math, reading, and science instruction is in English.
- FUND an ADOPT-a-DESK PROGRAM
These new desks cost only $20 each.
For about the price of two movie tickets, you can provide a new desk for a child in the San Isidro Integrated School.
This is what you will be replacing:
Remove rocks from the play area
Construct new playground equipment
Rebuild this circular tree-bench
Four classrooms are insufficient for six grades
Space is available to build two additional classrooms
- BUILD a LIBRARY
(These are some of the only reading materials
currently available to students.)
- CREATE a COMPUTER LAB
(We hope to find businesses willing to donate
discontinued computers.)
Trailside Elementary School
Park City, Utah
(where Elizabeth Weiss teaches ESL)
discontinued computers.)
- ESTABLISH a SISTER SCHOOL RELATIONSHIP with U.S. SCHOOLS
Park City, Utah
(where Elizabeth Weiss teaches ESL)
FUTURE PLANS
- IMPROVE the PLAYGROUND
Remove rocks from the play area
Construct new playground equipment
Rebuild this circular tree-bench
- ADD NEW CLASSROOMS
Four classrooms are insufficient for six grades
Space is available to build two additional classrooms
- BUILD a NURSERY/KINDERGARTEN
It's our dream to one day build a separate structure for Pre-School children with their own play area.
There is enough land.... All we need are the funds.
A single classroom can be built for around $2000.
DREAM BIG
AND OUR BEST DREAMS WILL COME TRUE!
AND OUR BEST DREAMS WILL COME TRUE!
This message just arrived from Father Raffy dated April 30, 2010:
Dear Theresa,
I am happy too for the devotion and commitment of your family to have that big dream of the village school in San Isidro. It will make a difference in the lives and the future of the students. The pledges, gifts, donations from all over the States, especially from your friends, make us feel so important for the common vision and mission to have the Library, school buildings, the chairs, school supplies and others that will enhance the dignity of the person in terms of their knowledge. Therefore, I am thanking you for your big help.
Love and prayers,
Fr. Raffy
