October 21, 2011 Classrooms

PILMES is big and well funded with a dedicated principal and teachers and supportive, involved parents. This is apparent in the wide array of activities available to pupils.  You can also see this in the resources, especially the preschool classrooms. Funding comes from DepEd, gov't officials, such as the governor or mayor and sometimes from private citizens.

Preschoolers wear a different uniform than the one worn by all other grades.

  Pictures of the national heroes are required to be displayed at the front of the classroom. Values and spiritual beliefs are part of the curriculum and are prominent in the decorations. Teachers work very hard to make their rooms beautiful.

Pupils do the work of cleaning the classrooms, They also get on their hands and knees to wax the floor with wax the parents purchase.

Sometimes these "foot mats" are worn to protect the floors.  The fan in the foreground is brand new and was a gift, much needed, from the parents of this class.

Pupils made this reminder for classmates: Please put your trash in this trash bag.

The school doesn't have a library but Ma'am Rachiel is fortunate to have this supply of textbooks.

 She is also grateful to parents for purchasing and installing the bank of cabinets which students share. There are usually several fans, you see two here. The exterior wall on the left is open, no glass, with wooden shutters to close against rain or hot sun. The upper walls are open to airflow, also. This is an historic building from the early 1900's.

This shows about a fourth of our pupils. In the foreground is Ma'am Rachiel's desk. Mine is beyond, closer to the cabinets.

Having fun. Good thing the resolution of my camera isn't better! Between the heat and the fans my hair is wild. Doesn't seem to bother anyone. But these children, aren't they beautiful? While I was, as usual, a sweaty, sticky mess, you see some of the pupils wearing sweaters!