SIP 2016-2018 final

This academic institution employs the 2002 Basic Education Curriculum (BEC) for Grades
Five to Six learners and the Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013 known as the K to 12 Curriculum
for Kindergarten to Grade Four pupils in compliance to DepEd Order No. 43, s. 2002 and the
Republic Act No. 10533 respectively. With these educational programs, this institution focuses on the
tool learning areas for an adequate development of competencies for learning how-to-learn.
In the K to 12 Program, the Universal Kindergarten is included. Study shows that
children who involved in and completed a standard kindergarten program have better
completion rates and are better prepared for primary education than those who did not. In the phase of
learning, students learn in alphabet, numbers, shapes and colors through games, songs and dances, in
their Mother Tongue.
English as a subject is taught for 30 minutes in Grade One during Second Semester, for 50
minutes in Grades Two to Four and for 60 minutes for Grades Five to Six. This learning area is
concerned with developing competencies in listening, speaking, reading, writing and viewing among
learners under the K to 12 program, while listening, speaking, reading and writing among learners
under the BEC program. Science and Health concepts are used as content in this area (Content Integration)
but not to the extent of neglecting the content in the English books for the grade.
Mathematics is focused on providing learners with opportunities in the acquisition of skills
and competencies necessary to gain understanding and appreciation of the subject. Each grade level
has specific content of competencies to be developed among learners. This learning area is taught for
50 minutes in Grades One and Two, and 60 minutes in Grades Three to Six.
Science is introduced as a separate learning area in Grade Three. This area aims to
develop scientific literacy among students that will prepare them to be informed and participative citizens
who are able to make judgments and decisions regarding applications of scientific knowledge
that may have social, health or environmental impacts. The K to 12 Science curriculum is learnercentered
and inquiry-based, emphasizing the use of evidence in constructing explanations. The daily
time allotment for this area is 50 minutes for Grade Three and Four and 60 minutes for Grades Five to
Six.
Filipino as a learning area, like English, provides for development of competencies in listening,
speaking, reading, writing and viewing for Grades One to Four and listening, speaking, reading
and writing for Grades Four to Five. Sibika at Kultura concepts and materials are used as content for
this area. This is taught for 30 minutes in Grade One, for 50 minutes in Grades Two and Three, and
for 60 minutes in Grades Five to Six.
Mother Tongue is a new separate learning field in Grades One to Three. This is being used in
the classroom as a bridge in learning Filipino and English. The daily time allotment for this subject is
50 minutes for Grades One to Grades Two and Three.
Makabayan is the laboratory of life, an experiential learning area consisting of Araling Panlipunan/Heograpiya,
Kasaysayan at Sibika (AP/HEKASI) Edukasyong Pantahanan at
Pangkabuhayan (EPP), Music, Arts, Physical Education and Health/Musika, Sining at Edukasyon sa
Papalakas ng Katawan(MAPEH/MSEP) ; Edukasyon sa Pagpapakatao (EsP). It is taught for 150
minutes in Grades One to Four, 120 minutes for Grades V and 140 minutes for Grades Five and Six.
In as much as this institution deems that there is a need to enrich the curriculum in order to
make it more relevant and responsive to the present generation of learners, and at the same time respond
to fast changing demands of the present global community, the following department and
school-based curricular programs are being implemented: