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Unveiling the Beauty of Nanbayo Falls

Builder Lighstream Desk on 07/28/2008 at 12:53pm (UTC)

After so many years of slumber, the NANBAYO falls located in the Napua’s northern part has roared to life as source of inspiration for explorers, travelers, artists, authors, and visitors making a breakthrough as one of the local tourism spots in the municipality of Sabangan. It is named after the perfect sound reverberation of rice pounding one can perceive within the vicinity of the falls. Its waterfall retreats upstream river runs to about few meters resembling a perfect view of a horsetail type falls that spreads to 3 to 4 feet across two big rocks. The other rock resembles a face of gorilla doomed to safeguard the place against any form of abuse and other unwanted event that may crop up anytime. Further, it plunges into a clear drop of approximately 30 to 35 feet tumbling over cascades to form a plunge pool measuring to a ballpark figure between 60 to 70 square meters during dry season. Such pool stretches to twice itself around 150 square meters during rainy season. The deepest part of the plunge pool measures to 4 to 6 meters deep found at the center, a little bit whirling like small eddies accumulating inward.
The 90 degree vertical cliffs of the escarpment with its rocky and steep slopes appear in lush covered side by side by fascinating gorge. The gorge is sheltered and stays moist with mist naturally during rainy season. The sound of the medium sized falls and the cascading water vapor cloud on its side drowns out public noise that serves as the inspirational music in this primitive and uniquely beautiful area. The area is still rich with second growth hardwood forest comprised of pine trees, grasslands and mixed forest communities.
A former Barangay Kagawad Mr. Paul T. Mamising used to get into the site during his childhood days. He disclosed that the falls stood customarily in three falling towers in series. But due to immense succession and geological processes, the falls narrowed down to only one main cascade with two small falls straddling on its side with the other one producing vaporize water smoke. Accordingly, the falls was once a swimming pool of YUNGA-AN, one of the primitive settlers in the area who luckily amassed two baskets of WADING (typical fish) in one night with the help of the believed nearby ANITO present that time.
From the Halsema highway in Tabbak, Namatec, one can readily traverse the 60 degree sloping mountain side for 2 to 3 hours hike before getting into the site proper. The long, narrow and winding path draws out across the panoramic mountain views by five to six kilometers in which one can really feel the natural draftiness of the place. Other route in getting into the site is via Malaslassa, one of the sitios of Barangay Napua where the ride can reach that far trimming down the excursion time by an hour.
Nambayo falls as it should be is a perfect spot to accommodate leisure for photo art works; eco-walk voyage; swimming; picnic outing; and as fishing grounds for WADING, tadpoles, and other forms of aquatic life present. It feels great to visit the place, enjoy the outing with the richness and wanders of nature. Nambayo falls is an expression of the Almighty’s loving touch; idiom of ones passion to nature; manifestation of appreciation to beauty; and avenue for physical, social, and mental exercises.

MP Teachers Join Regional Inset

Builder Lightstream Desk on 07/28/2008 at 12:52pm (UTC)

BAGUIO CITY – Around 35 private school teachers from Mountain Province out from 275 total registered participants in the whole Cordillera region attended the three-day Education Service Contracting –In Service training (ESC-INSET) conducted last Thursday at Teacher’s Camp here.

Ms Caroline C. Porio, the National Executive Director of the Fund for Assistance to Private Education (FAPE) stressed four pillars of effective teacher to wit; effective teacher cares deeply, recognizes complexity, communicates clearly, and serves conscientiously.

According to Ms Porio, the FAPE is an active institution for 40 years contributing assistance to the challenges uprising in the private education, creating major legislation in the contracting services in the Philippines before it was put into law in 1989.

Moreover, she disclosed that an effective teacher is a teacher who is sensitive enough to know the background and environment of his/her students in an effort to facilitate guidance services; a teacher who matches his/her skills with the students to meet the challenge and demand of education at hand; a teacher who makes clear instructions, classroom management, orientation, learning goals; and a teacher who dedicates his/her time and energy in ones profession without expecting much in return.

“Education is no longer confined in the four corners of the classroom. It is already within the click of fingers as enhanced by technologies at present in the global community,” Ms Porio said.

On the other hand, Dr. Corazon B. Dacawi, the Regional Coordinator of the ESC CAR revealed that this year’s INSET aimed to upgrade and improve teacher’s competencies within the learner’s environment in the Mathematics, Science, English, and Social Studies areas of discipline.

Accordingly, such INSET is a retooling service for teachers in the region’s private schools which helps them reach out the best kind of education in the four corners of learning and in the global community.

Meanwhile, resource speakers in this training include nationwide personalities in the persons of Honeylein C. Peralta, Raymund Santos, Zenaida Valdez, Jona Valente, Ronie Bonao, Erlina de Peralta, Maria Gagto, Julius Gat-eb, Teodolo Blas Jr., Aurelia Molave, and Mary Grace De Leon.

This INSET agenda is an annual round table initiated by the FAPE-CAR in response to the innovation process the schools want to adopt for the teachers to cope up the fashion of learning today.

In related development, participating schools from Mountain Province include teachers from Bauko Catholic School (Bauko), Holy Rosary High School (Tadian), Immaculate Heart High School (Natonin), San Alfonso High School (Sabangan), Saint James High School (Besao), Saint Mary’s School of Sagada (Sagada), and Saint Vincent’s High School (Bontoc).

BONLAG TEACHERS STRENGTHEN CALLING

Lesio Mhar P. Gao-ay on 07/28/2008 at 12:51pm (UTC)

Resentments are but obstacles to ones life and an effort to cast out these inner adversities boosts faith in ones self in light with the Christian teachings, Rev. Fr. Benedicto de Guzman, the retreat master and an assistant chaplain at UP-BGH stressed before 170 teachers including the principals from the Mountain Province and Ifugao Vicariate Schools during the two-day healing retreat seminar held last June 18-20 at Teng-ab, Bontoc.

Said retreat had exposed the participants on technology of St. Ignatius of Loyola, personal individual prayer, ten commandments for a close friendship, definition of weaknesses, sins, frailties, and addictions as an instrument to widen teachers’ calling on their career as facilitators in the Catholic schools at hand.

Fr. De Guzman, who had been into retreat services even before becoming a philosopher underscored deeper sense of encountering Jesus in ones daily endeavor by way of giving quality relationships with Him as the greatest teacher of all times.

Accordingly, bruised, broken feelings, unexpressed desires from the evils of the world need to be healed.

“Broken feelings which were not brought out from within keep blocking ones process of growing. These resentments and insecurities may affect too personal commitments, friend and family relations, and the management of inner conflicts to ones self when these were not addressed properly at earlier times.”

To such, this retreat seminar among teachers usually came at the beginning of a school year in an attempt to bind them in one vision-mission to start a school year, besides serving as form of renewal of camaraderie among the group.

Participants of this year’s retreat include teachers from Assumption Academy (Mayoyao), Bauko Catholic School (Bauko), Don Bosco High School (Lagawe), Holy Rosary High School (Tadian), Immaculate Conception School (Banaue), Immaculate Heart High School (Natonin), San Francisco High School (Lamut), San Alfonso High School (Sabangan), and Saint Vincent’s School – Elementary and High School Departments (Bontoc).

SAHS UNFOLDS FIRST YEAR SECTIONING

Builder Lightstream Desk on 07/28/2008 at 12:49pm (UTC)

SABANGAN,MT.PROVINCE - the school’s first year class had marked history when the enrollment figure had allowed the school administrator to split the year class into two sections with its official registered enrollees at 72 as of press time.

MR.Rodolfo M.Pepe JR,.the school principal revealed that such issue was brought to the vicariate’s superintendent office and such request was granted in due consideration of the disadvantage this number may bring.
“The 71 students in class is really that big but it would be too small for two sections,”said Fr.Francis Balacuit,the vicariate school’s superintendent.
An ideal number of student in a class to support a regular teacher is around 4o-45.In such case,there seem to have deficit when a class of 71 would split into two each with 35 and 36 student.
But the consideration remained strong over looking at students disadvantage when this number would be jamp packed in one class. Such scenario made the school authorities realized the inconvenient and inadequacies in the process when this class failed to be divided. Meanwhile,the SAHS enrollment figure at hard reach 214 mark,the highest recorded official june enrollment throughout the school’s history since it’s frounndation on June 1959.The distribution of the figure was as follows: First year-71,Second year-57,third year-40,and fourth year 47.

SCHOOL POPULATION GROWS BY 3%

Builder Lightstream Desk on 07/28/2008 at 12:37pm (UTC)

SAN ALFONSO HIGH SCHOOL - A total of 215 students enrolled at San Alfonso High School which brought 3% increase in the school population, Mr. Rodolfo M. Pepe Jr., the school principal disclosed during the interview.

Such increase came to reality when the school had won the students resources from its feeders from Sabangan Elementary School and Sabangan Central School icluding those from Lagan Elementary School and Supang Elementary School that had disclosed about 90 to 95% choice preference among their graduates.

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