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The Bahay Bata Center in Angeles City, Philippines, provides a home, education and a future for the street children
 


Traditional teaching

     Computer studies     Classrooms  

Within the classroom environment, the children are taught by qualified staff, with the aim of enabling the pupils to achieve their full potential, leading to their graduation. There are presently four teachers on the staff (three of them loaned from Angeles University Foundation for the year) who teach the 50-60 students, which also includes some children from the nearby village. 



Examinations are held every three months with the main end of year examination being held in March.  All examinations are conducted internally (the national achievement test is only conducted in selected schools). 



At the end of the year graduation ceremonies are held when the graduating boys and girls don their gowns and mortar boards and rightly feel proud of themselves.  It is then when everyone realises what we set out to achieve - to give the children an elementary education so that they may go on to higher education.  The Rotary Club of Clark Centennial does not stop there, it also sponsors these graduates in to higher education, such as trade schools and Nursing College.
 

    


Here, children not only learn to use the computers, but to seek information on the internet, and use a variety of programs, including the core Microsoft products, which are necessary in today's world.



 

Library support

Through donations of books and money, the center has a good fiction and non-fiction library.

As we all know, our future lies in the hands of our children.

    


There are three classrooms plus a faculty room which houses the computers.  Further rooms in the main residence building house the library and a proposed science laboratory.

The school runs a basic elementary curriculum at three levels, with two grades within each level, so any new child can be assessed and slotted into the appropriate level, regardless of age. Lessons begin at 7 a.m. until 11 a.m. when all students are provided with a free meal.  At noon lessons resume and continue for a further one and a half to two and a half hours depending on the class level.  Subjects taught include languages (Filipino and English), mathematics, general sciences, religious studies, arts and crafts. 

Formal sports tuition (rugby, baseball etc.) is conducted outside school hours so is only given to our resident boys, however the rest of the students are free to use the playground and basketball court in their free time.

The basics of music are taught in school, but outside school hours our resident boys are also given music lessons on guitars and rondallas. (In 2006 they performed at the Hongkong Welsh Male Voice Choir concert in the Immaculate Conception Parish Church).

 

  


 

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The Bahay Bata Center in Angeles City, Philippines, provides a home, education and a future for the street children