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Tuburan - a well spring of educational inspiration
... 12 year curriculum: kindergarten, class 1 to 8 (elementary) and class 9 to 12 (high school).
This June 2012, Tuburan is opening 2 kindergarten classes for children between ages 3.5 to 6 (kinder level students) at the Kids Worldwide Centre. Each year one more class level will be added until there are 240 students in 2020.
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Flooding
Merry Xmas to you everyone! This is just a short note for those who have been seeing on the news about the flash floods and typhoon in Mindanao.We are all fine here. Davao was not hit, but the cities in the north of Mindanao were, where Jay's family live. Only one of his sisters was affected by the flooding, meaning her house was flooded, but the rest of his family escaped the damage. ...
The trees are crying
... conundrum that residents now face – what is the real driving force in this community? Is it to share our lives with a smaller group of like-minded people, in an environmental haven, or is it to provide increasingly smaller plots of land on a substandard subdivision to a large group of poor Margiis? These are the two main sentiments currently at stake that now seem to be ...
A Potful of Paint with a Dollop of Rainbow.
... near our place about 10 days ago, and we decided to finally visit it a couple of days ago. I have not seen myself in a mirror since I arrived here and I am probably a bit country-bumpkinish. I have paint splots on toes and fingers that I have not managed to clean off, and sometimes I forget to change my shoes and wear my paint splattered crocs to the mall…so to see all the glittering new shops filled with new fashion clothes, high heels and make-up ...
The role of competition and culture in education
... pressure from teachers on their students to perform successfully, in order that the trophies that they won could be displayed in the teacher’s class for the year to come (even though the child who won the trophy would have been promoted to the next grade).
3. Recognising local artists: Professional musicians and performers had been hired by some parents to come to school to train the parents, teachers and students for the competition – ...