Brigada Eskwela starts tomorrow

• Source:http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/local-news/2016/05/28/brigada-eskwela-starts-tomorrow-476342
• Saturday, May 28, 2016

By Sweety Detz Conejos (CNU Comm Intern)

ALL public elementary schools and national high schools all over Cebu Province will hold the Brigada Eskwela on Monday in preparation for the start of classes on June 13.

The implementation of the week-long activity, participated in by the students and their parents, is directed by Department of Education Cebu Provincial Schools Superintendent Dr. Rhea Mar Angtud.

Nenita G. Jaralve, Division and Brigada coordinator, said that the activity will focus on cleaning the classrooms in all schools in the province.

Jaralve clarified that the activity is not mandatory but voluntary.

The Brigada Eskwela will prevent hassles in the opening of classes for the teachers and the students as their classrooms will then be ready.

DepEd also instructed the different school heads to be ready for any disaster, as La Niña is expected this October.

DepEd has deployed people who will monitor the activities that school heads are supposed to do and see to it that these will be implemented.

Drill

School heads are also instructed to conduct an earthquake drill.

The division personnel are divided into clusters to monitor the schools.

Meanwhile, Engr. April Y. Custodio of the DepEd Physical Facilities Section said they are targeting to finish construction of the high school buildings in October.

She said that the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) committed to deliver 70 percent of the number of buildings being constructed by June, while the rest will be in October.

The school buildings will have new designs and these will be called calamity resilient school buildings.

These building can also be used as evacuation centers in case of disasters, she said.

Custodio said that these buildings are equipped with drainage and comfort rooms and built to withstand typhoons and other natural hazards.