VISION: March 2009

CIELO LLANES TOPS LPS POPULARITY CONTEST

Cielo Llanes, a grade six pupil, topped the Popularity Contest at LPS for 2009. The Mr. and Miss Valentine coronation was held last February 27, from 6:00 to 9:00 P.M. at the LPS Quadrangle. The founder and principal of the school, Mrs. Emma C. Ventura, assisted by the father of San Isidro, Chairman Didinio Manipol crowned all the Misses and Mister Valentines, with the help of the San Isidro Barangay Councilors. All winners were serenaded by Jett Reinierre Anit of the fourth year class, and Lady Diane de Mesa of the second year class, and they offered bouquets of flowers to the Misses Valentines while all the Mr. Valentines were given garlands of flowers. Selected high school students entertained the winners and spectators with dances. Yes, there was a display of fireworks throughout the ceremony, getting the peak of firepower during the coronation of Mr. and Miss Valentines. The coronation was concluded by the traditional walk-dance of the Mr. and Miss Valentines. It was a fitting night for Mr. and Misses Valentines!

TOP FIVE WINNERS FOR MR. AND MISSES VALENTINES:
1) Micah Marie Galapon and Joshua Jose Señadora for High School
2) Cielo Llanes and Paul Angelo Suiza for Intermediate Grades
3) Jarry Brillante and Alexander James Ballesteros for Intermediate Grades
4) Darlene Garay and Louise Richard Lijauco for the Primary Grades
5) Kim Marianne Manzanero and Mark David Ebron for Pre-Elementary

OTHER WINNERS FOR MR. AND MISS VALENTINE
a) Alexandra Angeles, Anjeline Mae Agapito, Angela Reyes, Aneeza Bautista for the Kinder
b) Tyrone Velasco, Vint Alex de Jesus, John Carlo Martinez, and Shou Esquerra for the Kinder
c) Nodynice Crusit, Hannah Casao, Angela Nicole Maglalang, Jed Ebron, Michelle de la Cruz, Corina Faye Rosario, Ravford Dueñas, Kim Elindo, Mathew Silab, and Dan Alexander Abas for the Primary Grades
d) Swietenia Sabarias, Precious Dahl Alejandrino, Jan Marife Sarmiento, Joseph Gabriel Anit, Noah Ezekiel Batacan and Jeims Nathaniel Panisales for the Intermediate Grades

Coordinators of the program were Mrs. Zenaida B.Quintos, Guidance Counselor, and Mrs. Nelia C. Lanip, Math Teacher. Masters of Ceremonies were Miss Rosa A. Aguirre and Mr. Albert Rivera. In-charge of the stage decoration was Mr. Christopher Escondo.

Five LPS Students Passed UPCAT, Some Waitlisted

Five fourth year students passed the UPCAT (University of the Philippines College Admission Test), thus they are qualified outright to enter the University of the Philippines starting June, 2009: Jayvee Matanguihan, Carl Matthew Replan, Awdry Bryan de Guzman, Wanda Yekaterina L. Cruz, and Shaira Janina Manalo. Two others, Jofel Santos and Dean Carlson Alejandrino, are pending cases and they have to submit certain additional requirements to enter the University. Five others, Shelumiel Ortiz, Andres Nicole Aldipollo, Ma. Inah Rarugal, Jean Claire Tolentino and Guian Paolo Crisostomo got high ratings that would qualify them to enter U.P. The total number of possible UPCAT passers this year is 12. Congratulations to all outright entry passers, and we hope for the best to all those who are waitlisted!

Summer Review for UPCAT starts April 6; other tutorial classes on April 13

Summer review for UPCAT and other College Admission Tests at LPS starts on April 6 (Monday), while tutorial class in Journalism and special classes in English, Filipino, Math, Voice Lessons and Guitar Lessons will start on April 13. UPCAT reviews are in English, Filipino, Math (Basic Math, Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, Statistics), and Science (Earth Science, Biology, Chemistry, Physics). The Journalism class is about phrases and clauses, use of transition words and phrases, common errors in grammar, recasting of sentences, writing news items, sports items, features, editorial; the students will do actual activities for VISION Newsletter publication. Special classes in Filipino and English are about training the students to read and write properly in those languages. If there are some who will enroll in Voice Culture or Guitar Lessons, we shall hire a teacher who is a singer or musician for this purpose. School fees for the UPCAT review and tutorial classes in academic subjects are equal to the current monthly tuition fees for two months. The Voice Culture and Guitar Lessons fee will depend on the arrangement with the music teacher. The UPCAT Review is for 8 weeks and the tutorial classes are for six to seven weeks.

Science Poster Competition on March 13, afternoon

The Science Poster Competition will be held on March 13, starting at 1:00 P.M. at the LPS High School Building showcasing the best reports in Experimental Research. The oral defense of all fourth year students for their individual research works started yesterday, March 3 until March 12 next week. The oral defense had the Administrator, Principal, Statistics Adviser (Mr. Albert Rivera), English Critic (Miss Rosa Aguirre), and the Research Adviser as members of the Examination Panel. This panel will decide whether the application for graduation in High School will be approved or not. Likewise, the panel determines those who will qualify for the Poster Exhibit Competition on March 13, starting at 1:00 P.M.

As of these writing, three were selected for the final competition:

Guian Paolo Crisostomo, Improving Dapog Rice Seedling Performance
Chester Ramos, Using Hardwood Cuttings as Narra Propagation Material
Amhertsia Sabarias, Jatropha Bio-diesel as Additive to Commercial Diesel

Defense of research by the other students will be scheduled as soon as they are all ready. There are other nice researches, like the BIM-inoculated Organic Fertilizer, Wine from Locally Available Plant Materials, Vinegar from Locally Available Plant Materials, Inducing the Flowering of Euphorbia, Control of Golden Apple Snail as Major Pest of Rice, No-Caffeine Substitutes for Coffee, Improving Flowering of Bougainvilla, Mycorrhizal Effects in Tomato and Mustasa, Nursery Management of Tissue Cultured Banana, Sesbania and Azolla as Biofertilizers, and many more.

The criteria of judging for the Poster Competition are

Content, 40% (Presentation of Problem, Procedure, and Results, Use of Statistical Analysis, and Conclusion and Recommendations),
Form, 25% (Grammar and Sentence Construction, Design of the Poster Exhibit and Sample Display, Use of References, Notations, Legends), and
Originality and Significance, 35% (Original or Follow-up Study, Value of Technique or Procedure Used, and Usefulness of Work Results).

We are going to invite scientists and researchers from other institutions for the Science Poster Competition on March 13 to come and view our exhibits and help us in judging for this contest. Parents are also invited to attend, and we shall select parents to be included in the panel to judge for the Most Outstanding Research and Young Scientist of the Year. Prof. Emelita Bacsit, Senior Specialist and Laboratory Head, DOST Region IV-A Calabarzon will be the keynote speaker.

By Richelle Alejandre

National Achievement Test on March 5 (Grade 6) and March 11 (2nd Yr.)

LPS is included in the National Achievement Tests for Second Year on March 11 (Wednesday) and March 5 (Thursday) for Grade Six this school year, while Grade 3 is only for the public schools. Subjects included are English, Filipino, Math, Science, and Sibika. In this regard, LPS teachers conducted an intensive review in those subjects by their teachers starting February 16 up to the day before the test. Best wishes to all Second Year and Grade Six students!

By Claire Alyssandra Tanghal

Declamation Contest Winners Announced

LPS conducted its annual Declamation Contest last February 20, by grade and year level, aimed to develop ability in memorizing declamation pieces with action, correct intonation, and diction. Criteria of judging were 40% mastery of the piece, 30 % pronunciation, diction, and intonation, 20% audience impact, and 10% stage presence. The winners are:

Grade 1 - Charles Rosario (The Lamb by William Blake)
Grade 2 – Dan Kennedy Hipona (To A Butterfly by William Wordsworth)
Grade 3 – Maui Barredo (The Sparrow’s Nest by William Wordsworth)
Grade 4 – Rhizza Solmerano (I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth)
Grade 5 – Chelsea Gonzales (The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe)
Grade 6 – Ynno Barredo (The Indian Serenade by Persy Bysshe Shelly)
First Year – Nobody Qualified
Second Year – Rosmund Tolentino (The Song by Christina Rossetti)
Third Year – Jelriz Joi Lanip (Shylock’s Justification, in Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare)
Fourth Year – Shelumiel Ortiz (Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln)

All winners will receive the LPS TESTIMONIAL CERTIFICATES, except Shelumiel Ortiz who will receive the LPS Blue Medallion for being a perennial winner of Declamation Contest, as a HALL OF FAMER IN DECLAMATION in the Recognition Program on March 19.

By Christelle Jaraplasan

LPS Holds February Fair 2009

LPS held its February Fair last February 12 and 13. There were plenty of booths and activities prepared by the teachers and students to enjoy the two-day activities of the school. There were the horror booth supervised by the Juniors where viewers were treated with out-of-this world experiences; the food bazaar booth of many delicious goodies by the Sophomores under Mrs. Alice Tanghal; the torture booth by the Seniors led by Miss Rosa Aguirre; the flower booth where students bought for their close classmates, teachers, and parents; the jail booth of the Freshmen under Mr. Rhandy Punzalan, where many were “jailed” for offenses like wearing black shoes, wearing red shirt, crossing the path of the freshmen, or any other funny offenses; and the picture booth of the Values Club of Dean Alejandrino. In addition, we had the garage sale where used items, but still very good to wear, were being sold at very low prices, with Miss Mabel Francisco, Mrs. Nelia Lanip and Mrs. Cyrene Salem as “salesladies.” On the second day, Miss Rosa Aguirre conducted a film showing where the audio-visual room was full packed, that later on, the sign of “standing room only” was placed in front of the door. Mrs. Zenaida B. Quintos was the overall coordinator of this successful fair.

By Jelriz Joi Lanip

Overnight Camping

The overnight camping was held last February 20 at the LPS Quadrangle. To simulate real outdoor conditions, all rooms, except the lavatories and canteen, were closed so that all children and their teachers stayed outdoors with their built-up tents. The format was a combination of high school and elementary pupils, with the bigger children in high school playing big brothers and big sisters to the younger children from grade three to six, with a teacher assigned to every group. The tents of the boys were separated from the area of the tents of the girls. Cooking was done outside with chicken-pork adobo and liver with rice as their first meal for dinner. The children had to fetch their own water and firewood. It was a group work all the way.

After dark, Mr. Christopher Escondo, with selected students, conducted the rite of the light, “Paghahanap ng Ilaw”, by dramatically lighting the bonfire at the center of the quadrangle. There were many contests where all children participated like in the dance where teams Gardenia for girls under Mrs. Alice Tanghal and Scorpions for boys under Mrs Helen Martinez won. Iris team (for girls) under Miss Liz Joy Garcia and Scorpions (for boys) won the Yell Competition. The Tunog Tao presentation was the most applauded contest where children sang with the use of hands, feet, arms, and so on to produce sound (music). Team Leo of Mr. Rhandy Punzalan was the best in this category of Tunog Tao with Vernon Ventura as lead singer.

The high school class had their practicum in Values Education under Mrs. Emma Ventura where they had many activities related to good manners and right conduct especially while in a camping like this one away from home. The high school children had their test in dancing the “Tinikling” under Mrs. Ventura, where now and then, the knocking bamboo poles were pressing the beautiful feet of neophytes. After the program and activities in Values Education, the lights were put to dim volume for everybody was supposed to go to sleep in their tent. But, the whole night was spent bonding among group mates telling things interesting only to the young ones.

By daybreak, the whistle sounded to get up and cook for breakfast. This time, menu varied, made up mostly of canned goods and easy to cook foods. Everybody was eating a lot in the company of friends and schoolmates. Then it was time for jogging from LPS to Tagumpay Elementary School and back to LPS. There were some more activities before Mrs. Quintos, over-all coordinator, sounded the alarm for the dismantling of tent because parents started coming to fetch their beloved children who were away from them for one long, long night.

By Anne Beatrice de Guzman and Sheena de Jesus

MESSAGE FROM YOUR SCHOOL PRINCIPAL

Speech of Mrs. Guillerma Ventura on the occasion of Mr. and Miss Valentine’s Coronation on February 27, 2009

Honorable Didinio Manipol, San Isidro Barangay Chairman, Members of the San Isidro Barangay Council, the barangay tanods guarding us tonight, guests, visitors, parents, LPS teachers and employees, to all of you a pleasant good evening.

First, we thank the Lord for giving us this good weather to make this Coronation of Mr. and Miss Valentine a beautiful reality. Second, parents of our children are here with us tonight to share with our happiness in this celebration. Third, our students have good attendance. And fourth and last, the father of our barangay, Chairman Diding Manipol, is with us tonight.

Someone asked me, “Why the need for a Mr. and Miss Valentine Coronation?” This is always a part of schooling, where our children learn to read, write, count, and also to sing, dance, be good to others, expose them to talk or perform in front of a big crowd, and be sociable. Tonight we transformed our school into a sort of a kingdom, where we have a royal gathering of knights and princesses. Tonight, February being the month of hearts, we have many dances, songs, and then the coronation of the Mr. and Miss Valentine and their court of honors. This is a popularity contest, where silver and gold rein. Indeed, High School years are the happiest moment in our life, not only to prepare ourselves for College, but also to enjoy. This is the very reasons why we have activities like this, for when will our children enjoy life, enjoy schooling if not now?

Another one asked this other important question; where will you use the proceeds from this popularity contest? Indeed we have many projects that management cannot cope up alone anymore. We have the cementing of our frontage, but unfortunately, we run out of budget that the cementing had to be stopped. The plan here is to cement the frontage, from the main gate, including the parking space, down to the basketball court. Then, we have the extension of the roof of the corridors in the Primary School Building and in the Library in a way that children and their parents can conveniently sit there during programs, without any problem of sunshine or rain. Perhaps most important, but most expensive too, is the construction of our covered court between the Primary School Building and Library. The total cost of construction of all of these may already surpass P1M, so perhaps, we shall start with the construction of roof in the corridor in front of the library up to the Grade Six room. I am glad with this current popularity contest, that I can promise you that at least, we shall have covered corridor in the south wing of the high school building, or in front of the library, by June this year.

I just hope that something of this amount would be left so that we can also install floor tiles in the HE room, because this is the usual place where we entertain our visitors. By the way, this is a joint project of the CSO with Shaira Janina Manalo as president and the Values Club with Dean Carlson Alejandrino as president. With the success of their joint project, Janina and Dean will both receive the Leadership Award in the form of the LPS Blue Medallion in the Recognition Program on March 19. We must also remember that both of them were also instrumental in the floor tiling of the Science Laboratory through Christmas Caroling for two years.

We in management do our best to improve our school, not only academically but physically, like in the vast improvement of our Publication Section, by acquiring the RISO Copier and a sophisticated Xerox machine, thus we have now clear readable notices, newsletters, and test papers. We try to maintain our landscaped grounds for a healthy atmosphere for learning. We strive to improve our comfort rooms, and we tried the other day the flush toilet bowl in the primary girls comfort room, with much success, thus, we shall be installing flush toilet bowls in all our comfort rooms. We have now a land area of about one hectare, that we need to continue constructing cement wall fence at the southwest and northern sides of our campus.

After the coronation of Mr. and Miss Valentine, we shall have other activities to complete all of our scheduled practicum in Values Education and PEHM. Thus the High School Students will stay here overnight. There is nothing to worry about because Chairman Diding Manipol lent us some of his ever efficient and reliable barangay tanods, plus our teachers and maintenance staff who will always be with your children.

The school administration and faculty should like to express our sincerest thanks to all LPS parents who participated in this 2009 LPS Popularity Contest of Mr. and Miss Valentine, for many things are being improved in our school with your very kind help and cooperation. To all of you, again good night and thank you very much!

EDITORIAL: For A Change

According to Benjamin Disraeli, “a change is inevitable in a progressing system, change is constant.” I agree. I really had a hard time making up my mind on what to tackle in this Editorial. Perhaps thus is due to the pressure brought about my responsibilities as a teacher here. Writing the Editorial for this Newsletter and teaching were both quite taxing that I honestly feel like I am already running out of ideas. Hopefully, this would be another page in my life. But then, my day-to-day activities have already changed since I started teaching here. This is now my third year of teaching, and I must admit that I learned a lot, improved a lot, changed a lot. Everybody in school is happy now because classes are about to end and we are doing mostly co-curricular activities already. Progress of the children is conspicuous; they honestly have learned a lot, the fact that they have just built unique institutions for themselves.

Less than a month from now, I will be receiving again another set of fruits of my teaching here, since my grade 6 pupils will be graduating, that some of my pupils in grade six and all of my graduating students in fourth year will be leaving their alma mater for higher educational levels. I am proud that I become a part of their lives and I really enjoyed working and studying with them for three years. I am glad that most of my grade six pupils decided to stay for high school, thus I will have more time to be with them. Honestly, this is the beauty of the teaching profession – you work, you teach children who sooner or later develop some sort of closeness to you as their teacher, and this is the thing that I adore most.

Everything is changing, the institution, the individual student, and even me as their teacher. Thus, I have to learn to do the best things I can in this changing system, in conformity with these changes to improve my teaching abilities for the sake of my students that l have learned to like and care. To the graduating students, my best wishes to all of you!

Miss Marivil Francisco
Grade Six Adviser and VISION Co-Adviser

SCHOOL CALENDAR

March 3 to 5, 9 to 11 – Oral defense of Research Project (by schedule)
March 5 (Thursday) – National Achievement Tests in Grade Six
March 6 (Friday) – A.M. – Pre-Elem Day; P.M. – BINGO SOCIALS
March 11 (Wednesday) – National Achievement Tests in Second Year
March 12 (Thursday)– Deadline of Submission of Enrolment Confirmations for SY 2009-2010;– Deadline of Submission of Enrolment Forms for UPCAT Review Class; and Other Summer Tutorial Classes (Journalism, Remedial, Voice, Guitar)
March 13 ( Friday)
– A.M. – Citizens Advancement Training (C.A.T.) Graduation
– P.M. – Science Poster Competition
March 16 (Monday) & 17 (Tuesday) – Final Examination
March 18 (Wednesday) – Completion of Workbooks and other pending requirements
March 19 (Thursday)
– 9:00 A.M., Saint Augustine Parish Church – Baccalaureate Mass
– 4:00 P.M., LPS Quadrangle – Recognition Program
March 20 (Friday), 4:00 P.M. – 32nd Commencement Exercises
April 6 (Monday) – Start of Review Class for UPCAT and other College Admission Tests
April 9 and 10 – Holy Thursday and Holy Friday (no classes)
April 13 (Monday) – Start of Tutorial Classes (Journalism, Remedial, Voice, Guitar, etc.)

VISION (STUDENT EDITION) EDITORIAL STAFF

Richelle Andrea Alejandre, Editor-in-Chief
Christelle Jaraplasan, Associate Editor
Jelriz Joi Lanip
Claire Alyssandra Tanghal
Maria Victoria Veterana
Micah Marie Galapon
Noah Ezekiel Batacan
Sheena Jean de Jesus
John Morris Garcia, Managing Editor
Anne Beatrice de Guzman
Miss Rosa A. Aguirre, Adviser
Miss Marivil Francisco, Co- Adviser

QUOTABLE QUOTES
*Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself." -- Plato
*The chief aim of education is not to fill people’s heads with facts but to teach them how to think and how to use facts. – A.E. Wiggam
*Wealth can be produced only by intensive, persistent and intelligent toil." – Manuel Roxas
*… Trust yourself when all men doubt you… and make allowance for their doubting too. – Rudyard Kipling

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