“It takes a community to educate a child,” thus, teachers and the community worked collaboratively for the total development of every learner enrolled in the school.
Brigada Eskwela 2020 has started last June 1,2020 and teachers from F. Serrano Elementary School – Don Bosco watched the First National Virtual Kick-Off Program last June 1,2020. This year the Brigada Eskwela enjoined the activitity with the Oplan Balik Eskwela 2020. Activities for Brigada Eskwela are simultaneously done with OBE.
The Brigada Steering Committees are continuously doing their effort to reach-out our partners and other stakeholders through online solicitation and other social media platforms to encourage private individuals to support our advocacy especially that we are now in the new normal situation brought by this pandemic. To date, there are still private individuals who pledged some donations for the school to support specifically in preventing COVID 19 infection. They pledged to donate health-related item for our frontliners.
Our teachers also attended Mental Health and Psychosocial Support seminar conducted by the Philippine National Red Cross- Paranaque Branch during our In-Service Training seminar held last June 11,2020. It was indeed a great help for us teachers widening our perspectives in times of crisis as well as gaining important insights on how to handle as well as helping parents and pupils who are affected by the COVID 19 pandemic.
School-Based Stakeholders Convergence was done and it was attended by some of our stakeholders, parents, teachers and pupils through virtual conference. The school-based stakeholders convergence was attended also by our supportive Barangay Chairman, the Honarable Concepcion S. Navarro.
One of our major stakeholders, Amalgamated Development Corporation through the initiative of the its Board Member, Ms. Gina Boncan-Francisco supported our gadget donation drive which is “Gadyet na Handog Mo, Gabay sa Kinabukasan Ko,” and donated 36 tablets to our learners who don’t have any gadgets use to cope up the new normal. The company also donated some face shields for the parents who will come during the distribution of these tablets for our chosen beneficiaries.
Another supportive partner in helping of our learners is the Quota International Manila South (QIMS) headed by Ms. Sarah Charito Scheyer also donated 4 tablets for our chosen beneficiaries. There were also private individuals who donated 3 more tablets for our less fortunate learners. The school received a total of 43 tablets for our selected beneficiaries for the school year 2020-2021.
The year round activities for BRIGADA ESKWELA 2020 continuously done so that donor could extend their support to our school especially to our learners in coping the new normal.
Two Members of the Barangay Don Bosco Council, Honorable Jose Mari Balicanta and Honorable Jonas S. Maglaya also donated some health-related materials for our school frontliners
Moreover, the school won 2nd Place in the most coveted Division Brigada Eskwela Best Implementer 2020-Small School Category. Through the hardwork, effort, resopurces and collaboration of different stakeholders and the community we were able to achieved this award.