St. Robert Bellarmine Center for Learning

The yearly check-ups were held last August 3, Tuesday. The school’s dentist Dr. Roque “Bo” Eugenio along with Dr. Marichu Tamayo- Lozano conducted the check-ups.

The dental check-up is one of the activities vigorously promoted by the school to increase health and nutrition awareness among the pupils. Much to the dentists’ delight none of the preschoolers showed any fear of having their teeth examined.  The whole activity went smoothly with all the pupils eagerly anticipating their turn at the “dental chair.”

View Pictures of Dental Check-Ups.

The primary level pupils (Grades I – III) went to Kalinga Ng Ama  Shelter for Children in Bonuan Gueset last July 29, Thursday to conduct a feeding activity and bring the collected donations for the shelter’s orphans.

This activity was an extension of the yearly cook fest that the school holds to celebrate the Nutrition Month. Instead of the pupils simply consuming the food that they have prepared as in the years past, this year, to add a dimension of social responsibility and community involvement, the school decided that a feeding activity would best extend the experience for the SRBCL pupils.

Pastor Rolando Santiago heads the shelter, catering to children between the ages of 1 – 18.

View Pictures of SRBCL At Kalinga Ng Ama.

July is celebrated nationwide as the Nutrition Month, and this year SRBCL celebrated the Nutrition Month with its drawing and slogan making activities in the classrooms, health lectures, culminating in a cook fest of both the preschool and elementary levels. The one week activity from July 26 – July 30 started with the intermediate level pupils (Grades IV – VI) cooking a healthy lunch fare for the whole elementary grades and the faculty.

The primary graders had their turn on July 29, Thursday when they prepared sandwiches for everybody in school and chicken macaroni soup to be served to the orphans at Kalinga Ng Ama Shelter for Children.

The preschoolers excitedly prepared their own snacks of sandwiches and chocolate drink. This is the first year that the preschoolers were asked to join the cook fest though they have been long customers of the graders’ delicious treats.

View Pictures of Preschool Health Week.
View Pictures of Grade School Health Week.

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).