Birthday Celebrations and Cell Phones

HEdCen would like to celebrate every child turning a year older and what better way to do that but to make everyone understand that  the school allows a simple birthday celebration if requested by the parents.  The simple celebration calls for 1-2 "solids" and 1 kind of juice.  Ice cream is classified as solid, together with pasta, chicken, or barbecue.  Rice and a viand completes the allowable "solids".

If it cannot be helped, the birthday celebration in school must be VERY ssssimple and must follow the NO plastic advocacy, No styrofoam, and No soda.  It is preferred and encouraged that you bring food cooked in your kitchen.  You may also coordinate this with Mrs. Escario if you want the services of the school cafeteria.

Please accomplish the BIRTHDAY CLEARANCE form, ONE WEEK before the planned birthday eat-together.  Your child may get this form from his TIC.  This CLEARANCE will have to be SHOWN to the GUARD before you can bring the food inside the grounds.

We will be very sorry to turn you down without the proper NOTICE to the school.
Please take home all forms of garbage as a result of the simple party.
Balloons and loot bags are not allowed.

In the same breath,  cell phones that have been confiscated will be returned to their owners in 2012.
There will be no special concession granted to any student or parents who might want this policy reviewed.

Please refer to the Student Handbook about this policy.  The teachers-in-charge have made reminders and have reviewed these  policies and guidelines with their students. 

Understanding and Managing Autism Seminar

We are inviting you to participate in the upcoming August seminars for parents.  We believe your particiaption in these seminars will benefit your children and the entire family, and will help you understand the work we do at The Little Farm House.

August 20-   Understanding and Managing Autism

                        9:00 am  to 3pm

            We highly recommend this talk and would like to encourage all parents to come to this workshop to help you understand the work we do at The Little Farm House to include children with special needs.  In this Seminar/ Workshop our speakers will also briefly touch on the broad spectrum of autism which you will find includes other conditions of special needs.

            The seminar will inform us on

·      how to detect signs of these conditions at an early age

·      help us be more aware of the challenges these children and their families face

·      effective management and interventions  

·      the rights of these individuals as well as those around them  

Topics:

Education: A Human Right              

 Autism Society Philippines Orientation

Republic Act 9442

Understanding Autism

            Spectrum of Autism- different degrees and manifestation of autism

            The difference of autism with other Special Needs

Managing Autism

Home

School

Programs for Interventions

1.   Speakers:

           Ranilo Sorongon

Executive Director, Autism Society Philippines (ASP)

Vice Chair, Regional Council on Disability Affairs, National Capital Region

Member, Phil Coalition on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability

2.   

      Rosalyn Marie G. Sorongon, MA Sped

Member, Education Committee, ASP

Speaker/Facilitator, Siblings Program, ASP

Mentor, Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health

3.     

      Mrs. Perlita So – she will share her experiences of having 2 boys with autism

Vice President and Head, Education Committee, ASP

Mother of two boys with autism, Patrick, a college student of Ateneo taking up BS Life Science

And Angelo, a student of the Community of Learners

8:30 am Registration

9:00 am – 3:00 pm Seminar/ Talk

3:00pm -4:00pm Open Forum

                            Closing

This is an open invitation to all the parents, their families and friends who wish to extend their education on issues of autism and its management at home and in school.  A fee of 300 pesos will be collected from each participant to cover for the fees of our speakers, lunch, and snacks. 

       * Please approach Teacher Glencee at the Registrar's office for more details and to sign up for the seminar *

            A circular on the Workshop on Effective Communication within the Family will be released to your children next week.

Suspension of afternoon classes for Aug 3 Wednesday

Please be informed that a few minutes ago DepEd announced the suspension of afternoon classes today Aug 3, beginning 12 nn.  Although the suspension was declared for 12 nn, please take note that HEDCen will be releasing its GS and HS students for dismissal only at 1:30 pm.  Let's hope for better weather tomorrow, see you!

And in between , I am also a grandmother

I make rounds everyday if I can help it...  it is always great to walk inside the lab

 These are not dead specimens, they are actually alive (see some leaf insects?)!

 This one should better not be alive...

I am proud that we hardly have specimens marinated in chloroform, err, formalin.

Inside a classroom is an interesting mood-o-meter- reminding me all the more that we have humans in the grounds!

 Shoes and bags are ordinary in this set up.

 I do hope that knowledge is not  kept in these bags instead of storing it in the brain.  That's ironical. 

The sampaloc garden is a witness to joyful noise

 and the corridors too!

 You would find some humans in the library where it should be quiet, but it was not so when I dropped by...

or in the case of Sionil Jose, with Teacher Marissa reminding everyone to do a good job,

while I do my favorite job as a grandma in between breaks.