BFP, PNP, Religious Sectors, Stakeholders Ink Agreement with POB

To support the implementation of the K to 12 Basic Education Program, the Department of Education (DepEd) continuously fulfill its mandate to produce productive and responsible citizens equipped with essential competencies and skills for lifelong learning. To make every learner a proficient reader, schools across the country are tasked to help learners develop their reading skills.

Hence, the City of Batac National High School Poblacion embraced the challenge to support the DepEd’s program.

As it intensifies the success of the Reading Program for this school year 2022-2023, the proponents with the full support of the school head and teachers continue to roll out the program, this time by setting-up reading nooks, reading corners, and additional community reading centers with the title “READSTRUCK 3.0 READY TO ENGAGE IN ADVANCEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT IN SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY (READS-C).”

This program benefits the identified learners with reading difficulties (LRDs) by helping them think critically and look into the deeper understanding of what they have read by means of enhancing their comprehension skills through story-telling, word games, and question and answer activities based on the articles given to them which serves as a scaffold to help them achieve their proximal development.

The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP), Philippine National Police (PNP), Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP), Alumni Association, Religious Sectors, and five different barangays (Tabug, Magnuang, Quiling Sur, Acosta, and San Julian) inked memorandum of agreement (MOA) in support with the Reading Program. In addition, different organizations in the school also show their support for the success of the program.

The results of the reading program have been impressive. Students who participate in the program have shown significant improvement in their reading skills. They are also more likely to read for pleasure outside of school.

Additionally, the program has helped to create a culture of reading at the school and in the different barangays.

Last December 23, 2022, the BFP Batac personnel headed by Chief Inspector Arnel B. Ratuita toured their adopted learners with reading difficulties at Robinsons Mall.

The said activity aimed to let the learners experience to be in a mall and feel the spirit of Christmas.

The learners received gifts such as school supplies and snacks courtesy of Robinsons Mall, BFP Batac and San Nicolas, respectively.