issue no. 4

July marks the healthy lifestyle and environmental consciousness month


The food we eat is not only what makes us healthy. Eating the right kind of food together with a healthy lifestyle will ensure us better state of body and mind condition.
Dinner tables and lunch boxes are loaded with nutritious foods but let's take a look at our children's lifestyle.


• Are they getting enough sleep?
• Do they have outdoor games or sports?
• How long is their TV time, including the session for computer games?
• Do you have family bonding activities?
• Are they getting enough hugs and affirmation from their significant elders? (parents, guardians, grandparents)
• Do they have exclusive time with you?
• How is their free time being spent?
• Do they have spiritual enrichment or nourishment? (An evening family prayer, Sunday school, Sunday Mass)
• Do they have friends other than classmates or cousins?
Children or even adults need to have a balanced healthy kind of life that will help nourish their entire system and the whole human personality . Young children must be exposed to a positive and wholesome environment and activities.
Food on the table is not the only concern here but equally important also are the things that will nourish the emotional, spiritual, social, and mental state of being. (first posted in the PB Vol. 2, no. 5)


This year’s Nutrition Month celebration focuses on the prevention of lifestyle diseases, illnesses caused by poor healthy lifestyle like:
• Fondness of junkfood among kids
• Fastfood mania
• Streetfood craze
• Couch potato among children
• Smoking/ second hand smoking
• In-active lifestyle
• Shorter sleeping time

In line with the celebration, HCEC launched a month-long activity for the pupils to have the enduring learning on the importance of proper nutrition to help them achieve a healthy life and prevent themselves to get sick. Varied activities were prepared by the Fusion Club in coordination with the Flora and Fauna Club in connection with the Ecology Month Celebration. Pupils will get into a hands-on expereince to learn more about nutritious food and ecological awareness.

HCECian gets a perfect score in SBA


He is Francis Jenner T. Bernales, the class First Honors of the Batch 2009, who got a perfect score in Math SB for AY 2008-2009.

The Standadard Based Assessement Test of the Asian Psychological Services and Assessment Corp is a measuring tool to compare the performance of a certain pupil/ school to the international educational standard. The result will show how a student or the school performs in terms of academic competencies and contents.

It is the HCEC’s pride and honor to have one from among our pupils to set a record of getting a perfect score in the said test. With a percentile score of 110+ with a raw score of 50/50, Francis Bernales has placed HCEC to be among the very few schools who got a perfect score in any of the SBA Tests. Congratulations, Francis!

With this achievement and for having a mean scaled score of 84% and a performance level of 73%, HCEC passed the proficiency level set by the International Educational Standard. This means that the content and competencies taught in HCEC are comparable internationally. A great reason to strive more for excellence, ite ad excelentia; enough reason to be “ A Proud HCECian”.


SBA RESULTS GIVEN TODAY: JULY 10 ‘09

Honor Ranking using the Criterion Based System

I. TERM ACADEMIC HONORS- First to Third Term

The following achievement awards will be given to those pupils who, at the end of the term period, merit the Academic and Values grades stated as below:


Academics
• FIRST HONORS
No grades below 90
GPA of 96 and above
• SECOND HONORS
No grades below 90
GPA of 91-95
• ACADEMIC DISTINCTION
No grades below 88
GPA of 88-90


Values and Character: Deportment Grade
• Absolute grade must not be lower than 3.25 or with VERY SATISFACTORY and OUTSTANDING rating. (Pls refer to the matrix, p.3 )


II. YEAR-END HONORS- The 7-3 scheme of the Department of Education will be used in determining the Year-end Honors in all levels.


• Academic Grades will be given 7 points and the ARA Points will have 3 Points.


GUIDELINES
• The Term Academic Awards are given to pupils who qualify in their own learning groups (section).
• The Academic Achievements and the Deportment Grade for the given term will be used in selecting the honors for the Term Academic Honors.
• The number of honor pupils is not limited to ten (10).
• The DepEd policies on selecting honors at the end of the academic year will be the basis of the standardization.
• Only those in the first and second honors are included in the 7-3 scheme. Thus, all pupils with GPA of 91 and above are included in the 7-3 scheme.

The 7-3 scheme of DepEd will be used for the year-end honors from grades 1-5 and for the graduating class.

DEPORTMENT GRADE
HCEC- ACAD POLICY NO. 02 Rev 02-05/7/09

Rationale
Holy Child Educational Center is committed to uphold its vision-mission in producing graduates who are excellent both in academics and character. Putting premium to character formation through positive discipline, the school needs to acknowledge and recognize those pupils/ students who excert effort to practice the school’s values and culture and observe the set policies and rules by assigning acceptable ratings that commensurate their practice and observance of positive behavior in and out of the classroom.

Guidelines
A. MATRIX FOR THE ABSOLUTE VALUES IN THE DEPORTMENT GRADE COMPONENTS

NUMBER OF VIOLATIONS LETTER GRADE ABSOLUTE VALUE
0 Tardiness, Absence, or Any Offense with HD O
(Outstanding) 4.00
1-3 Tardiness, Absence/s, or any offense with HD VS
(Very Satisfactory) 3.50
4-6 Tardiness, Absences, or any offense with HD HA
(High Average) 3.00
7-9 Tardiness, Absences, or any offense with HD A
(Average) 2.50
10-12 Tardiness, Absences, or any offense with HD LA
(Low Average) 2.00
13 or more Tardiness, Absences, or any offense with HD P
(Poor) 1.00

B. MATRIX FOR THE TERM DEPORTMENT GRADE
AVERAGE OF THE ABSOLUTE VALUES IN ALL THE COMPONENTS TERM DEPORTMENT GRADE
4.00 O (Outsatnding)
3.25 – 3.99 VS (Very Satisfactory)
2.75 – 3.24 HA (High Average)
2.25 – 2.74 A (Average)
1.75 – 2.24 LA (Low Average)
1.00 – 1.74 P (Poor)


Guidelines

1. The Deportment Rating will cover the pupil’s achievement in the three Key Result Area which are included in the Mandatory Work Habits of an HCECian, Punctuality, Attendance and Safety and Discipline.
2. The Absolute Values in each component will be added then divided by three in order to determine the Deportment Grade in a given Term.


Sample Illustration:
Pupil A- has 5 tardies in a term --------------- 3.00
Did not incur any absences---------- 4.00
No offense--------------------------------- 4.00
Total--------------------------------------- 11.00/3
Absolute Value--------------------------- 3.66
Deportment Rating ---------------------- VS

3. The Deportment Grade will be given by the Class Adviser, to be validated by the Discipline Head and to be approved by the Principal.

NOTES in a GLIMPSE

1. July 10- Dance workshop
2. July 11- Flute workshop
3. July 19-23- First Performance Task Assessment
4. July 24-26- Leadership Training Seminar for pupil officers
5. July 31- Nuti-Eco Culminating Activity

Thank you for making yourself well-informed on school matters
by reading the Parents’ Bulletin.


Ms. Helen R. Andalis
School Principal


Ms. Teresita P. Nadal
School Directress