Make a Difference, Save Our Home

“The Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.” – Mahatma Gandhi.

Environmental awareness is to understand the fragility of our environment and the importance of its protection. Promoting environmental awareness is an easy way to become an environmental steward and participate in creating a brighter future for the next generation.

Everyone needs to be aware of the impact of their actions because the success and failure of environmental programs and the overall condition of our environment lie on small, personal acts that accumulate over time,

Other than the celebration of world environment month by the host city, it is individually celebrated by the countries in their states, cities, hometowns, schools, colleges, public places, etc with parades, cleanup activities, concerts, recycling initiatives, tree plantation, including all kinds of green actions to motivate and inspire people towards the bad condition of this beautiful planet. It is not a public holiday thus all the schools and offices remain open and no one gets off. It is an initiative to work together for taking some positive actions to maintain the beauty of the planet. We should keep in mind all the objectives of this campaign all around the year and convert them into actions accordingly in the form of beautifying the surrounding areas through plantation and cleanliness, saving water, less of use of electricity, using organic and local foods, save wildlife, and so many. We have only one planet to live on, it is our home and only we are responsible to maintain its natural beauty forever.


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Protect Children’s Rights Every Day

"We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us."
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter."
P. T. Barnum

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UN CRC) adopted on 20 November 1989 is the first legally binding universal treaty solely dedicated to the promotion and protection of children’s rights. It sets out the rights that must be realized for every child – the rights to survival, development, protection, and participation. It offers a vision of the child as an individual and as a member of a family and community, with rights and responsibilities appropriate to his or her age and stage of development.

Parents, guardians, and all adults should be vigilant in protecting and advocating for the rights of children. While this National Children’s Month is a gentle reminder for everyone to ensure that they are creating a better world for young Filipinos to live in the future, the battle must not stop at the end of November.

Let’s continue to be great examples to kids and be conscious of our actions in making the Philippines a safe environment for them to take care of and pass on to future generations!

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Celebrating good, unique Filipino values

“Good moral values are mostly molded from a place where love, faith, and hope exist.” Arsenio V. Manalo Jr

“Great people have great values and great ethics.” Jeffrey Gitomer

The celebration of Filipino Values Month in November, pursuant to Proclamation No. 479 issued on October 7, 1994, is an effective measure to create moral awakening and national consciousness on unique, positive, and genuine values held important by the Filipino people in their daily lives.

Values that nations and individuals hold sacred distinguish them from others. Filipinos are known globally for their values; love of God, country, and family; diligence and hard work; regard for personal honor and dignity; compassion, generosity, adaptability, loyalty to a friend or benefactor, respect and care for the elderly. Interaction with peoples of various cultures helps them develop a strong work ethic, patience, filial piety, and business acumen. With these values guiding them, Filipinos are able to cope with the vicissitudes of life.

I believe what’s missing in society today is the commitment to core ethical values that all people should strive to achieve, such as honesty, kindness, compassion, respect, and personal responsibility. These are values to be admired and illustrative of a person of integrity. 

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Indigenous Languages matter for development, peace building and reconciliation

"Indigenous languages in the global village, more than just a case of survival"

The United Nations declared 2019 The Year of Indigenous Languages (IY2019) in order to raise awareness of them, not only to benefit the people who speak these languages, but also for others to appreciate the important contribution they make to our world's rich cultural diversity.

Languages play a crucial role in the daily lives of people, not only as a tool for education, communication, development and social integration, but are also at the heart of each person’s unique identity, cultural history and memory.But despite their immense value, languages around the world continue to disappear at an alarming rate.

The United Nations chose to dedicate a whole year to encourage urgent action to preserve, revitalise and promote the importance of indigenous languages in the global village. While indigenous languages may not be the most widely spoken, they are the most numerous of the worlds languages. The International Year of Indigenous Languages aims to focus attention on the risks confronting indigenous languages, especially those significant for development, reconciliation, good governance and peace building. It aims to improve quality of life, wider international cooperation and visibility and strengthened intercultural dialogue to reaffirm the continuity of indigenous languages and cultures.

Greater use of indigenous languages means a greater chance of their survival. Losing a language is more than just losing words, it is a loss of unique cultural perspectives and narratives contained within the language and culture, along with its contribution to the richness of diversity.

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My 2nd Grading Reflection

Second Grading Period has come to an end. It's just so fast that I didn't even noticed it's time for the Periodic Exam again. After this, we will have our most awaited Sembreak and then, we will start a new quarter again; all back to zero. Well, in this quarter, there were so many things we have done and achieved.

In ICT IV, we had a lesson which is very new to me. It’s about HTML Tags and in this grading period, we worked mostly on our exercises. I addressed my problems with the help of my classmates especially with my teacher. When I'm having trouble where to locate the tags they are the whom I seek for help and I'm very thankful because they are willing to help me out. We’ve finished 10 and I really learned a lot. It’s so fun and enjoyable to do those exers, I just hope I can apply it in the future for it is so important.

          

All in all, Second Grading Period is a busy time. But I’m glad because in here, I was able to experience many unforgettable moments: either good or bad memories. And most especially, I learned many important lessons and I look forward on the next two periods that I will be able to eliminate my idleness and clumsiness. In short- I will strive harder so that those awful things which happened in this period will never happen again.

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Campus Recreation

Every year, our school Ilocos Sur National High School celebrates its annual Intramulars in which all the students were grouped into six teams per grade level. This year, the Intramurals was last held on September 13-14, 2019.

For me and based on my experience, intramurals is the time where you get to know other people better and where you get to make new friends in your divison or cluster because earlier during the semester as a freshman, you aren't really given the chance to do so. Also, during the events, your inner determination is being brought out, as well as teamwork and cooperation. I noticed that there were some controversies and the competition was very heated. This cannot be avoided in any competition. it just shows how much school spirit we have, and how determined we are to win. It also shows that if your team is till standing strong despite controversies, it means that your team has truly captured the essence of unity.

Overall, so many lessons and values can be learned from intramurals and the activity had been very tiring yet a memorable one. I am glad that most if not all schools practice this event annually. It only promotes health and fitness but values as well. We learn values such as: teamwork, unity, loyalty, cooperation ,humility, determination and many more. The intramurals plays a big part in a student's life.



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Science Month

We celebrate the National Science Club Month every September and this year theme is "Metabolize: Nourishing the Filipino Youth Towards National Well-being." There were a lot of activities held inside our campus such as Sci-quiz, Sci-trix, Poster making contest, Essay writing contest and Ginoo at Binibining Kalikasan. These activities has been in favor of us students because through this events it enhances our skills and our thinking abilities.

This is the result of the research conduct done by organizations that are made up of concerned Filipino Youths, science clubs that sees a connection between the proper development of the future generation and the type of nutrition they get from food. This was done to promote good nutrition to every Filipinos especially the youth. It apprehends the significance of science as a tool for the government and food growers to work together towards that goal which is appropriate nutrition for all. This investigate. the impact of the food we eat on our growth and development as human-beings-all in and effort to promote good nutrition to all Filipinos

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