Balik Eskwela 2015

The Closing Program of Brigada Eskwela was already done, and for all volunteers, parents, and former and current students alike, Brigada Eskwela 2015 has already ended. However, Brigada Eskwela continues even after the Closing Program for teachers like us. 

Dedicated teachers who paid and bought materials from our own mid-year bonuses (which I think is so unfair since a bonus is supposed to be enjoyed by our families, and yet we exhaust almost more than half of it for classroom preparations) for the beautification of their designated Advisory classrooms go to school to repaint walls and bulletin boards. 

Grade 9 Chemistry Teacher, Ms. Caroline, cleaned her extremely dusty classroom.

 This isn't my room. It was another teacher from the Grade 9 level. I helped her remove all the paper designs from the wall. She was alone and felt like she really needed help. Last year's teacher assigned to this room had to cover almost all the walls of his classroom since it was too dirty. Dirty in the sense that the previous adviser posted so many designs and they couldn't scrub it all off. So when Ms. Caroline was given this room, she was aghast at seeing the work she needed to do to make the room presentable and neat.

Ms. Cheryl from the same year level also had the same dilemma. Only the little patches of white double-sided tapes and papers were on the jalousies instead. Ms. Jennifer helped her (lol wink wink) too.

On our side of the ocean (lmao), since I could ask some of my previous students for help, they were able to clean the room during Brigada Eskwela week. However, Ms. Verome thought it wasn't clean enough, so we bought half a can of beige paint for the walls. 

After a day, the painting was 90% finished, so we started putting something on our Bulletin Boards. 

Ms. Verome's Bulletin Board kind of reminded me of Dr. Seuss' poem "Oh, the Places You'll Go!" She claimed she was not very creative and asked me for help. But she did this on her own! I guess it's true that you'll never know what you can do unless you try doing it. It introduces different settings of Afro-Asian Literature stories.

Mine is a lot simpler yet a lot more complicated and taxing. One of our Guidance Counselors advised us to not post anything on the walls anymore to avoid repainting it every year. Aside from that, she said that in the Department of Education Memorandum, Only Kindergarten to Grade 3 are encouraged to decorate their classrooms with colorful pictures and put posters on the walls. I think it is because children are more visual learners than teens and pre-teens (errr, is that  how you call kids ages 12 and below?) 

So I followed her suggestion and put everything I had to put on the walls on the Bulletin Board as well. 

Last year, this is how my partner, Ms. Jean Kristine, and mine's Bulletin Board looked like this. 

o-nes-tee iz d best po-lee-see + bulletin board. haha. wala pang class officers and cleaners and birthdays. ;)

A photo posted by 레이첼_선생 (@doremi_anch) on Jun 1, 2014 at 4:09am PDT

Now, since I had to add Class Officers, Birthdays, Cleanliness Police, etc. I decided to put it this way. It still needs to be done because there's no border yet.

I divided it into two parts. 

The first column is only for Advisory Class Stuff. 

 The second column is solely for English.

Anyway, I still need to cut out some lettering for Honesty is the Best Policy. 

Woot!~