II. School Child Protection Committee Endorsement
Chairman:SANTIAGO Z. SALARIO, P-I – Principal
Vice Chairman: AILEEN C. DEPOSA-School Guidance Coordinator
Representatives:
Barangay Local Government Unit-Hon. LEAH M. LOGONG
Teachers’ Association: KENNETH M.BANZON
Parents and Teachers Association- LARRY LOGONG
Religious Sector-Pastor EDWIN TADULAN
Supreme Pupils Government-LOUEI DIANNE LONGGO
Non-Government Organization - JAYSON SIBOG (Save the Children)
III. DEPED Vision, Mission, Core Values
Our Vision
We dream of Filipinos
who passionately love their country
and whose values and competencies
enable them to realize their full potential
and contribute meaningfully to building the nation.
As a learner-centered public institution,
the Department of Education
continuously improves itself
to better serve its stakeholders.
Our Mission:
To protect and promote the right of every Filipino to quality,
equitable, culture-based, and complete basic education where:
Students learn in a child-friendly, gender-sensitive, safe, and
motivating environment.
Teachers facilitate learning and constantly nurture every
learner.
Administrators and staff, as stewards of the institution, ensure
and enabling and supportive environment for effective learning
to happen.
Family, community, and other stakeholders are actively
engaged and share responsibility for developing life-long
learners.
Our Core Values:
Maka-Diyos
Maka-tao
Makakalikasan
Makabansa
IV.Introduction:
The Lamfugon Elementary School is a child friendly and safe
school. All teachers, school officials and school personnel of the
Lamfugon Elementary School have a common commitment to the
prevention of abuse, exploitation and violence; and the protection of
children. Abuse, exploitation and violence against children happen to all
children and the Lamfugon Elementary School have a zero tolerance
policy for any act of child abuse, exploitation, violence, discrimination,
bullying and other forms of abuse. Our principal, teachers and all other
school personnel will at all times demonstrate the highest standards of
behaviour towards children and the standards of behaviour outlined in
this policy apply to both the private and professional lives of all school
teachers and personnel.
The Lamfugon Elementary School established the School Child
Protection Committee last 2012. And due to the rigid campaign of the
national government and some NGO’s we were given workshops and
trainings for these programs. We also form our Child Protection Policy
to the school as the bases of the program.
V. Scopeand Limitations
The Lamfugon Elementary School Child Protection Policy cover every
rights of the child, giving them assistance and support in their needs to
grow as a well develop and have good values individuals.
All forms of violence against children involve the abuse of children's
rights. All children have equal rights to protection from abuse, exploitation,
neglect and violence. The situation of all children must be improved
through the promotion of their rights as set out in the UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child. This includes the right to freedom from abuse,
exploitation, neglect and violence. Violence against children including
corporal punishment is never acceptable. We have a commitment to
protecting children with/for whom we work.
VI. Definitions of Terms:
Child – refers to any person below eighteen (18) years of age or those
over but is unable to fully take care of them or protect themselves from
abuse, neglect, cruelty, exploitation or discrimination because of a
physical or mental disability or condition
Child Abuse – refers to the maltreatment of a child, whether habitual or
not, which includes any of the following: (1) Psychological or physical
abuse, neglect, cruelty, sexual abuse and emotional maltreatment; (2)
Any act by deeds or words which debases, degrades or demeans the
intrinsic worth and dignity of a child as a human being; (3) Unreasonable
deprivation of the child’s basic needs for survival, such as food and
shelter; or (4) Failure to immediately give medical treatment to an injured
child resulting in serious impairment of his growth and development or in
the child’s permanent incapacity or death.
Child exploitation - refers to the use of children for someone else’s
advantage, gratificationor profit often resulting in unjust, cruel and
harmful treatment of the child. These activities disrupt the child’s normal
physical or mental health, education, moral or social emotional
development. It covers situations of manipulation, misuse, abuse,
victimization, oppression or ill-treatment.
Violence against children committed in schools - refers to a single
act or a series of acts committed by school administrators, academic
and non-academic personnel against a child, which result in or is likely
to result in physical, sexual, psychological harm or suffering, or other
abuses including threats of such acts, battery, assault, coercion,
harassment or arbitrary deprivation of liberty.
Corporal Punishment - refers to a kind of punishment or penalty
imposed for an alleged or actual offense, which is carried out or inflicted,
for the purpose of discipline, training or control, by a teacher, school
administrator, an adult, or any other child, who has been given or has
assumed authority or responsibility for punishment or discipline.
Positive and non-violent discipline of children – refers to a way of
thinking and a holistic, constructive and pro-active approach to teaching
that helps children develop appropriate thinking and behaviour in the
short and long-term; and fosters self-discipline.
Bullying-Refers to any severe or repeated use by one or more
students of a written, verbal or electronic expression or physical act or
gesture or any combination hereof directed at another student that has
the effect of actually causing or placing the latter in reasonable fear of
physicalor emotional harm or damage to his property; creating a hostile
environment at school for the other student; infringing on the rights
of another student at the school; or materially and substantially
disrupting the education process or the orderly operation of a school.
VII. Signs of Abuses/ Bullying Occurring in the School
A lot of indications and cases happened in the school about abuses
and bullying. There are cases happened last year like having Grade 3
and Grade 4 boys were quarrelling and fight with each other due to a
small things they don’t agree with all about. On the next day the some of
them brought deadly weapons made up of fork and knife. Other case
also happened last March that some of the Grade 5 and Grade 6 pupils
fight with each other due to jealousy with one of the girl in Grade 5.
The Grade 6 pupil sent a love letter to the girl from Grade 5 and one of
his classmate got angry jealous. After 2 days the two boys got quarrel
early in the morning before flag ceremony and some of their friends and
classmates also join and help each other in fighting. We all shock about
what happened. So we conducted a surprise inspection of the pupil’s
bags and we confiscated the deadly weapons they brought to the
school. We refer the problems to our of PTA President to help us in
giving proper decision for the parents and their child to cut the bad
behaviour of their pupils.
We have also verbal and physical abuse cases of teachers to
their pupilsthat happened last March, 2013 and last June 2014 that was
reported and settled to the barangay council.
VIII. Interventions/Policies/Code of Conduct
Interventions:
The interventions made by the school about the cases happened are
thefollowing:
- Call up the attention of parents of those pupils who involved in the
quarrelling and bullying.
- Make an agreement with the pupils, parents and teachers involved so
that it will not be happened again.
- We refer to the Barangay Officials, PTA and SGC President about the
cases of those teachers who were involved in the cases of physical
abuse of pupils and settled it with in their level and give warnings to
teachers.
- Conduct trainings and seminars to teachers, parents, BLGU and PTA
Officers.
Policies/Code of Conduct
All teachers, school officials, parents and pupils of the LAMFUGON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL must abide by this Code of Conduct.
Purpose of Discipline
- To teach respect for order, law and authority.
- To impress on the mind of the students the importance of rules and
regulations.
- To protect the pupils body and the school from any influence of the
law breakers.
- To teach the pupils the idea of justice.
- To correct and strengthen the character of the pupils.
Teachers, school personnel, and others must never:
- Hit or otherwise physically assault or physically abuse children
- Develop physical/sexual relationships with children.
- Develop relationships with children who could in any way be deemed
exploitative or abusive.
- Act in ways that may be abusive or may place a child at risk of abuse.
- Use language, make suggestions or offer advice which is
inappropriate, offensive or abusive.
- Behave physically in a manner which is inappropriate or sexually
- provocative
- Have a child/children with whom they are working to stay overnight at
their home unsupervised.
- Do things for children of a personal nature that they can do for
themselves
- Condone, or participate in, behaviour of children which is illegal,
unsafe or abusive.
- Act in ways intended to shame, humiliate, belittle or degrade children,
or otherwise perpetrate any form of emotional abuse
- Discriminate against, show differential treatment, or favour particular
children to the exclusion of others.
- Punish the child hardly that could hurt the child physically and
emotionally.
The pupils must do the following:
A. School Attendance
- A pupil who has been absent shall present an excuse letter signed by
his /her parents or guardian addressed to the adviser.The letter must
state the reason for the absence.
- Absence due to sickness and for other emergency reasons which is
beyond our control is considered excused.
- A pupil whose attendance is irregular will be required to bring his/her
parents or guardian for a conference with the Class Adviser at an
appointment time.
B. Cutting Classes
- Pupils are considered cutting classes when they leave the classroom
during class hours without the permission of the subject teacher.
- Leaving the classroom for an unreasonable length of time.
- Leaving the campus without permission from the authorities.
C. Bullying
It refers to any severe or repeated use by one or more
students of a written, verbal or electronic expression or physical act or
gesture or any combination hereof directed at another student that has
the effect of actually causing or placing the latter in reasonable fear of
physical or emotional harm or damage to his property; creating a hostile
environment at school for the other student; infringing on the rights
of another student at the school; or materially and substantially
disrupting the education process or the orderly operation of a school.
D. Care and Respect for School Property
School properties and facilities are provided to facilitate the
learning process. Interest and pride in the school should prompt
the pupils to regard school property with care and to keep the
campus clean and neat.
- Property damaged by any pupils must be replaced or paid for by the
erring pupil. Any property damage must be reported to the school
authority concerned as soon as possible to avoid further damage.
- Lost and found property must be surrendered to the guidance
coordinator or to the principal.
- Pupils are expected to help maintain the cleanliness and orderliness
of the school surroundings.
SANCTIONS
1st Offense: Reprimand by the Teacher
2nd Offense: Warning by the Teacher and with written incident report.
3rd Offense: Conference with the parents or guardian.
4th Offense: Advice to Transfer or Recommend for Expulsion
IX. Referral Mechanism/Systems
The referral mechanism or system is that the complainant will
informed the adviser first to be settling in the level. If not settled in their
level the adviser will forward it to the school Guidance Coordinator and to
the school head or principal and then to the PTA and to the Barangay Level
if the case is too heavy to be solved in the school level.
BCPC Officials School Head PTA/SGC-
School Guidance
Coordinator
Teacher
Complainant
X. Reporting Mechanism
The reporting mechanism is through complains and verbal
approaches of the child, teachers and parents if there are
problems arises to their children in the school.The School
Guidance Coordinator will take note of the problem and call the
attentions of the pupils involved and also their parents and
teacher-adviser. If the cases are very severe we refer the
problem to the PTA/SCG Officials and to the BCPC for them to
help us in solving the problems.
If the teacher is involved in the physical, verbal or any abuses
we refer the case to the District Guidance Coordinator and
Principal In-Charge or to the district to help in solving the
Problems.
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