The Valenzuela City government has cited five public elementary schools in the city that emerged as top performers during the Valenzuela Reading Camp 2022 conducted last August.
Valenzuela City Mayor Weslie “Wes” Gatchalian and the Department of Education (DepEd) Valenzuela recognized Parada Elementary School, Arcadio F. Deato Elementary School, Pasolo Elementary School, San Miguel Heights Elementary School, and Roberta de Jesus Elementary School, during the city’s Education Summit 2022 at the Wellness, Entertainment, Sports (WES) Arena, in Barangay Punturin, on Saturday, Sept. 24.
The Valenzuela Reading Camp 2022 is a 10-day, half-day session for grade school students who are non-readers and frustrated level readers that aims to address and improve their reading comprehension. It was held last Aug. 8-19.
According to the city government, the Department of Education (DepEd) Valenzuela has recorded 808 non-readers and 7,873 frustrated level readers from Grade 3 to Grade 6 students through the Philippine Individual Reading Test (Phil-IRI), an assessment tool composed of a set of graded passages given to a student designed to determine the learner’s reading level during the two-years of Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns.
It added that the students got an average score of 79.89 percent on the pre-assessment test.
It also said that a post-assessment tool provided by the Synergeia Foundation, Inc. was endorsed to the students after the reading camp to gauge their improvement in reading.
The local government said that a mean score of 91.98 percent was obtained by the students from the post-test which made a 15.13 percent improvement in the overall score of the 42 public elementary schools.
It added that the five schools have exhibited exemplary performance based on the post assessment test.
According to the local government, students of Parada Elementary School showed the biggest improvement after they made the biggest increase of 50.38 recent from the pre-test (61.70 percent) to the post-test (92.79 percent).
Arcadio F. Deato Elementary School placed second after it got a 42.23 percent change between their pre-test and post-test results.
Pasolo Elementary School was on third spot after it registered a 31.36 percent increment/increase on its assessment, while San Miguel Heights Elementary School followed with 28.17 percent. Roberta de Jesus Elementary School also made a 26.23 percent change from pre-test to post-test, taking the fifth spot.
The schools were rewarded with desktop computers for their overall performance, the city government said.
Reading Camp is part of the Education 360 Degrees Investment Program launched in 2014. Its beneficiaries are now close to 100 thousand students.
The Education 360 Degrees Investment Program shows the city government’s holistic, comprehensive, and student-centric approach to uplift the quality of education in the City.
The Valenzuela Education Summit 2022 is an initiative of the local government that aims to discuss and outline effective programs and projects that will address the emerging growing needs of the city’s public education.
Synergeia Foundation, Inc. is a non-government organization that works with policy-makers, local leaders, national and local agencies and institutions, communities at the grassroot level, and private sector partners to improve the quality of basic education in the Philippines by empowering the communities around public schools.
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