By Glazyl Y. Masculino
BACOLOD City – The Sagay City Eco-Zone National High School in Negros Occidental has thought of a way to motivate parents to guide their children with their learning modules at home.
Dubbed “Module Mo, Veggies Ko,” the school initiated a program in partnership with the city government to encourage parents to help their children comply with the Self-Learning Modules (SLM) and to continue to enjoy learning at home.
According to school’s head Myla Rivera, when a parent returns a module, the school will give fresh vegetables from the school’s “Gulayan sa Eskwelahan”.
River said the “Gulayan sa Eskwelahan” started last April 30, when the school faculty and the Parents and Teachers Assembly headed by Engr. Vivencio Flores decided to ask for the approval from the city government to use the 5,000 square meters lot for the vegetable garden.
Rivera said it was then later approved by Mayor Alfredo Marañon III.
Rivera said the clearing and cultivation of soil started last June 16, followed by its first harvest in September 30.
About 50 kilos of pechay were harvested and given to 100 parents for free, she added.
The garden is being maintained by five parents of the school under the adopt-a-school Gulayan amid the pandemic. It has variety of vegetables like eggplant, tomatoes, green beans, cabbage, among others.
These parents were provided with livelihood to support their families in these trying times, she said.
She said that 50 percent of the harvested vegetables in the garden were alloted for the five parents in order for them to also have an income, while the other half were alloted for the said program.
She said that the program enabled the school to have increase in the number of enrollees from 365 last year to 483 this year, despite the new way of learning.
She said that most of the students and parents in the area walked from their homes to the school to get their modules.
“Kanami kay makita man namun na gina follow-up gid sang parents ang ila bata sa ila balay,” she said, adding that the module distribution and retrieval of the learning materials are on time.
Parents even play an important role in educating their children considering the recent crisis, which prevented the children to have a face-to-face learning in classrooms with their teachers.
