St. Robert Bellarmine Center for Learning

The school participated in the citywide simultaneous earthquake drill last July 16, Friday. The drill is to ingrain disaster preparedness among Dagupeños. As per Executive Order No. 137, July was declared as the NATIONAL DISASTER CONSCIOUSNESS MONTH and July 16 every year was declared by the Dagupan City Council as DAGUPAN CITY DISASTER PREPAREDNESS DAY. This year’s theme is “Pag Alerto, Malayo sa Peligro.”

The grade school levels who have been participating in the yearly drills executed all the steps with no difficulty while the preschoolers, treated the whole exercise as a game but nevertheless did all that was required of them perfectly. Evacuation of the pupils took less than three minutes with all the pupils accounted for as they did their count off once out of the “danger zone.”

View Pictures of Earthquake Drill 2010.

This school year SRBCL is WiFi capable. This affords the pupils a chance to use their laptops, PDA’s and internet capable cellular phones during their lunch break.

The WiFi capable areas are the library, the science laboratory, and the gallery area.

The Parents Orientation Day was held last June 25, Friday at Bellarmine Hall. The program usually the first activity for any school year at SRBCL gave new families a chance to hear first hand a brief background of St. Robert Bellarmine, the saint, and the school, and also get to know all the faculty members. Attendees are also apprised of all the rules of conduct applied to all pupils at Bellarmine during the school year.

Parents were given a chance to ask questions or air out observations during the open forum. The friendly and congenial atmosphere lent itself to a very pleasant end to the activity with most of the parents choosing to linger to have private conversations with their child’s class advisers and partake of the simple snacks prepared by the school.

View Parent Orientation Day Pictures.

With the school year officially underway the incidence of airborne diseases dramatically increases. In a school setting where children are at close proximity to each other, one of the steps that SRBCL took this school year to mitigate said increase was educate its grade school populace of the different illnesses that they were most likely to contract in public places.

During the first week of classes, a Powerpoint lecture on AH1N1, Malaria and Dengue was given to the graders. They were made to understand the different illnesses, its symptoms and preventive measures. The graders showed much interest in the topic and were more than willing to follow the simple preventive measures that were enumerated for them like proper hand washing.

The next lecture that was scheduled for them is making them aware of the dangerous effects of smoking even to children like them who are non- smokers but are exposed to second hand smoke. The graphic pictures of diseased lungs was more than enough to have the children swear not even to try smoking or to be more vigilant of people who smoking in prohibited places like schools and malls.

View Health Lecture Pictures.

The school year for SRBCL officially opened June 16, Wednesday. Initial count for the year shows a modest increase in the school’s population from last year’s number.

The graders, the kinder and prep pupils, most of whom are former SRBCL pupils only had a half day orientation while the Nursery level had a three day orientation considering that this is their first formal schooling experience.

Most of the pupils showed willingness to start the school year and were pencil ready during the first day of class.

View Welcome SY 2010 – 2011 Pictures.

Elizabeth Eden, a petite Grade II pupil added to her growing collection of karate medals in the recently concluded 23rd PKF National Open Karatedo Championship held at CSI Stadia, Lucao, Dagupan City last April 21- 22.

Eden scored a Bronze medal in the Girls Kata (Ages 6- 7).

Matthew Serafica, a Grade III pupil posed and sparred his way to two medals in the recently concluded 2010 Palarong Pambansa held in Tarlac City.

The karatekas from Region I hauled 20 medals in all, coming out as the Over-all Champions in the Karate Event of the Palaro, with Serafica contributing a silver and bronze medal to the kitty. He grabbed the silver medal in the Boys Kumite (Ages 8-9) and the bronze medal in the Boys Kata (Ages 8-9).

The graduating Preparatory and Grade VI classes had their Moving-Up Day last March 27, Friday. The occasion held at Bellarmine Hall was at 4:30 in the afternoon and graced by the presence of DepEd Education Supervisor, Dr. Nora F. Benavides, who was this year’s Speaker and Confirming Guest. This year’s theme was, “Education Sets Us Free.”

There were ten graduating preschool pupils and six Grade six pupils for SY 2009- 2010.

This year’s preschool graduates were: (Boys) Austria, Johnel Matthew D., Barredo, Antonio Luis T., Caracas, Paul Danielle L., Coronel, Juan Carlos C., Elegores, Lance Angelo B., Estrada, John David C., Febreo, Elijah River O., (Girls) Carrera, Glowee Ann M., Reyes, Allyson T., and Roxas, Erielle Zaina F.

The fourth batch of SRBCL elementary graduates was composed of: (Boys) Bernal, Raymond Alfred P., Quinto, Jann Adrian C., Rosario, Edward Joseph M., (Girls) Peregrino, Loren Therese D., Pinlac, Charina D., and Sta. Maria, Diane Samantha M.

Loren Therese D. Peregrino (SRBCL Pupil since SY 2003 – 2004), Charina D. Pinlac
(SRBCL Pupil since SY 2004 – 2005), and Diane Samantha M. Sta. Maria (SRBCL Pupil since SY 2004 – 2005) received the SRBCL Silver Loyalty Award. For her consistent exemplary academic performance for the school year, Diane Samantha M. Sta. Maria was awarded this year’s Academic Excellence Award.

For the Preparatory Class, the six gold medalists were: Johnel Matthew D. Austria, Antonio Luis T. Barredo, Juan Carlos C. Coronel, Lance Angelo B. Elegores, Elijah River O. Febreo, and Allyson T. Reyes. The lone preschool silver medalist was Erielle Zaina F. Roxas.

View Pictures of Moving-Up Day.

The preschool levels from Toddler to Kindergarten had their Recognition Day last March 26, Friday held at 8:30 AM at Bellarmine Hall while the Grades I – V held their occasion at 4:00 in the afternoon of the same day and venue.

The theme for both activities was “Education Sets Us Free” highlighting one of the importance of valuing one’s educational experience.

Academic excellence in different areas was awarded as well as other important skills such as arts, athletics and computer education. There were 18 gold medalists in the preschool level and 14 in the grade school level. The silver medal haul for the preschool was 7 and 11 for the grade school.

Ribbons were likewise awarded to each pupil to give importance to the different positive traits they exhibited during the school year.

View Pictures of Preschool Recognition Day.
View Pictures of Grade School Recognition Day.

The Grade VI Batch 2010 raised close to five thousand pesos to purchase and donate two science models to the school’s laboratory. The whole year science project dubbed “The Legacy Project” had the six Grade VI pupils pooling their efforts in different activities such as Bingo games, raffles and food retail to raise money.

The two plastic models of the heart and brain will become permanent science laboratory models that will benefit the succeeding batches. For the Grade VI class, working for the year-long project is one of their most memorable experiences of the school year. Their feeling of happiness and pride in their accomplishment is truly well-deserved.