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Start of Centennial Celebrations: Saint Mary’s School is celebrating its centennial year starting this month to December of 2012. We invite parents, alumni and friends to join us in the late afternoon mass on Friday, December 9, from 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM at St. Mary the Virgin Church. After the mass we proceed to the school quadrangle for the lighting of the “mother torch” which will signal the start of the centennial celebrations. The symbolic torch then will be sent to Baguio City for the torch parade at the Cathedral of the Resurrection grounds on December 10, Saturday. The torch parade will kick-off the centennial celebrations. To the alumni and parents who are in Baguio City and in nearby municipalities you are encouraged to join the activity. Sir Fau, our headmaster, will be present during the occasion.
Service Learning: The Annual Service Learning is scheduled on December 11 (Sunday) – 13 (Tuesday). Parents please ask the brochure which contains the contract and permission forms from your children. Please find time to read it and accomplish the required forms which are to be submitted to your child’s class advisor next week.
The service learning provides the opportunity for the students and teachers to experience a “connectedness” with the world outside the classroom. It enables them to apply skills and knowledge learned and taught in class in the service of others in an authentic service learning situation. The program supports the school’s commitment to develop the students as knowledgeable and responsible citizens. The service learning program also provides time for the students to fulfill the BOT requirement of 30 hours of service for every year of stay at SMS.
For this year, the freshmen will go to Suyo; the sophomores will render service in Aguid before they go to Datacan; the juniors will go to Guinzadan Central, Bauko; and the seniors will go to Guinaang, Bontoc. The fifth year students will be assigned to the different year levels. As what we had been doing in the past, the school handles the transportation costs while the parents contribute for the students’ meals. The cost of one meal is raised from fifty pesos to sixty pesos (P60.00) due to the increase in prices. The contributions are as follows: Freshmen – P310.00 (5 meals, P10 for food during the bonfire), Sophomores – P300 (5 meals); Juniors – P360 (6 meals); Seniors – P300 (5 meals). Please give your contributions to the business office on or before December 8, Thursday.
Kinder Christmas Party: As agreed during the last kinder PTA meeting, the kinder Christmas Party will be on December 15, Thursday, starting at 10:00 AM at the church grounds. As usual, we will have potluck. Parents please attend this important occasion in your child’s life. In order to buy common gifts for our kids, we will contribute P50 each. Please give your contribution to your area coordinator or to Mr. James Wandag, our PTA treasurer.
Foundation Day/Christmas Party/Mountain Night: We will celebrate the Foundation Day/Christmas Party/Mountain Night on December 16. Parents and alumni are invited. Please be guided with the following schedule.
Foundation Day-Cordillera Night-Christmas Party
Schedule of Activities
Friday, December 16, 2011
4:30 am Misa de Galo (sponsors: SMS and STH)
8:00 am School Mass
10:00 am Assembly at the Quadrangle – Quiz Bee
1:00 pm Indigenous Games
3:30 pm Cultural Presentations (By dap-ay)
4:30 pm Students go home to prepare for the Cordillera Night
5:30 pm Torch Parade including Kindergarten and Parents
6:30 pm Lighting of the Christmas tree, Kinder Cultural Presentation
7:00 pm Dinner (Potluck by Dap-ay)
7;30 pm- 9:00pm Mountain Night Presentations (SMS Cultural Troupe, the winner in the cultural presentations by dap-ay, SMS Parents, alumni); Testimonials
Parents please be reminded that we will have potluck dinner on Dec 16. The students, together with their family, will eat per dap-ay.
Provincial Meet: Some of our students will join the Sagada delegates to the Provincial Meet which will be held on December 17-21 at Tadian, Mountain Province. To all Sagada athletes: we wish you the best and bring home the bacon! For our contribution to the food of the athletes, each of our students will bring one chupa of rice and vegetables on December 15, Thursday. The contributions then will be brought to Sagada Central School.
Christmas Break: Parents please take note that the Christmas break starts on December 17, 2011 to January 8, 2012. Classes resume on January 9 (Monday). All students are expected to be here on that day. We have a longer Christmas break because we started classes much earlier than the public schools.
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