Republic of the PhilippinesDepartment of EducationRegion
VSchools
Division Office of Camarines SurFreedom Sports Complex, San Jose, Pili,
Camarines Sur
FORM 1NOMINATION
FORM
I
respectfully nominate Mr. Noel R. Dauran,
Master Teacher 1 of Baya Elementary School, for Outstanding WASH Advocates (Teacher Category). Since January 2019, he
served as WASH coordinator of Baya Elementary School, located at Baya, Ragay,
Camarines Sur. His remarkable efforts and transformational leadership in the
implementation of Wash in School (WinS) Program of the Department of Education
deserve to be appreciated and be given due recognition.
Baya Elementary School is a medium - sized school led by a school principal 1 with 15 teachers from kindergarten to Grade 6, 1 utility/watchman, 339 school children last school year 2023 - 2024 with more than 200 parents/guardians. The school has been humbly working as a team in order to attain its mandate, that is to provide the basic quality education. Committed and true to its mission, all programs, projects, and activities of the Department of Education are in full implementation in this school community judiciously utilizing the annual school MOOE, other additional funds, together with the local funds like the SPTA funds and donations from other stakeholders anchored on transparency and accountability. All expenditures are made according to plans, priorities, and needs of the school community.
Quality basic education is ensured through the serious implementation of the K to 12 Basic Education Program integrating all the other flagship programs of the department whether curricular or co-curricular in nature. The schools believe that in order to develop the learners wholistically, all aspects of their personality should be taken care of with balance.
Wash in school (WinS) Program is one fitting package that school children as young as they should already learn. Its components such as water, sanitation, hygiene, deworming, and health education are basic rudiments of healthy and clean living.
Water is crucial
for schoolchildren as this impacts their overall health, academic performance,
and well-being. The importance of water
testing is tantamount to the general safety of the school’s clienteles,
specifically the learners. As they
battle with daily academic pursuits, hydration is a must for both optimal
functioning. Proper hydration is linked
to academic performance. Concentration
and learning as well as mental sharpness are necessary for optimum cognitive
functions. Physical activities that
learners go through would require so much energy level. Children who are well-hydrated are more
likely to be active and engaged.
The school’s effort to
provide potable water and the presence of the four (4) group handwashing
facilities have made water accessible for all.
This has helped learners develop that habit of using water as the
primary agent for staying clean.
Sanitation is as
critically as important as water for school-aged children as this impacts their
health, academic performance, and overall well-being too. At school, learners are taught the benefits
of health and disease prevention if good sanitation practices such as regular handwashing
and using clean facilities are part of their everyday routines. The spread of diseases like colds, flu, and
other infections are prevented if learners are well-informed.
The school
has realized the great importance of using alcohol and other sanitation
elements during the COVID19 outbreak.
Since then, procurement of alcohol and other sanitary goods or supplies has
always been a priority over other things needed in the school operations. One has to stay safe and sound! Proper waste disposal has promoted healthy habits
to all.
Proper hygiene
which includes handwashing, brushing teeth, and maintaining cleanliness, helps
prevent the spread of infections and illnesses.
Good hygiene practices reduce the risk of foodborne diseases and
infections that can result from poor sanitation or unclean hand and
surfaces. If children are free from
illnesses, absenteeism will be avoided.
Essentially, they will be in school to attend classes. Hence, academic performance will most likely
improve. Healthy children are able to
concentrate and participate in classroom activities.
Deworming improves
children’s nutritional status. Just like
the other components of WinS, it is crucial to the learners’ over-all
well-being. It is contributory to their
academic success. It is not only
benefits individual children but it also contributes to healthier communities
Baya
Elementary School started its WinS journey from scratch. In 2019 when Ms. Aguirre set her foot on its
campus, there was no group handwashing facility that was functional. The two WATSAN facilities by DepEd were all
busted. There was no water supply. The campus was using the water supply from
the community which was from a stream.
Hence, it was not fit for drinking.
Improvised rain catchments were being utilized to store rainwater in
order to use for cleaning and for watering plants.
Over the
last three years, however, the school has significantly transformed. It has
successfully complied with the minimum requirements set by the Department of
Education along with the construction of group handwashing facilities. From zero to four functional group
handwashing facilities with water supply are now a good sight to see in the
campus. During the pandemic, two
group handwashing facilities were constructed.
The school head realigned some budget that
were not utilized like training and travel and gave optimum priority to having
such facility. She also went the
extra mile by forging partnerships with stakeholders; she honestly laid them
the plight of the school and the need of the school children. The late Congressman Rolando G. Andaya,
Sr. and Architect Maribel Andaya-Eusebio donated another group handwashing
facility. Busted WATSAN facilities were allocated with budget for minor repair
of school structure through the School MOOE.
Now these facilities are fully functional. These include the repair of the seven (7)
comfort rooms attached to the two units of WATSAN. The school’s effort to provide potable
water and the presence of the four (4) group handwashing facilities have made
water accessible for all. This has
helped learners developed that habit of using water as the primary agent for
staying clean.
The school
also have other donors for feeding like Tau Gamma Phi, Alpha Kappa Rho, and
other private individuals whose identity are kept confidential. Other donations from alumni and other
benefactors have come in the form of supplies such as toothbrush, toothpaste,
slippers, school supplies, health kits, and cleaning materials.
Additional
comfort rooms were built as Homeroom PTA Projects in some classes who
did use to have such. Further, rest
areas in the intermediate classrooms were made as well. This was to provide
an appropriate place for girls who have suffer from pain or inconvenience
whenever they have their monthly periods.
The presence
of functional group handwashing facility, water supply, and comfort rooms have
paved the way to regular conduct of group handwashing, toothbrushing, and all
others in between. In effect, teachers
have come up with sets of parents/guardians in the case of the primary
grades assigned as cleaners in order to maintain the cleanliness of such
facilities. Among the intermediate
grades, learners are tasked to clean their own comfort rooms; student
leaders or class officers lead their class for the group handwashing and other
related routines.
In order to
ensure full implementation of the Wash in School (WinS) program, the school
head initiated a school level contest among all classes. The contest aimed at identifying classes
with best practices covering all components of the program. In order to get rid
of biases, primary grades teachers judge the intermediate classes, and
intermediate classes judge the primary grades.
This has shown positive effects along the sustainability of the
program. Such school level
competition evolves into a reward and recognition mechanism of the school. The selection committee involves parents,
SPTA Officials, SGC Officers, and other community leaders. Criteria have been set for it to become a
legitimate incentive instrument recognizing exemplary performance and
outstanding compliance as WinS advocates.
Mentoring
program
has been in place at this institution.
Based on the results of the school level contest, teachers who scored
low would be helped, monitored, supervised constantly by the WinS Coordinator
and the School Heal herself. This is
done to ensure that teachers improve their competence and technical know-how in
WinS implementation. Provision of
technical assistance from the school head and the WinS coordinator has boosted
teachers’ confidence in pursuing excellence in spite of inadequacies.
In the same manner, the
creation/organization of the Technical Working Group (TWG) in intensifying WASH
advocacy has helped a lot in equipping teachers with technical know-how and
expertise in looking into each component such as water, hygiene, sanitation,
deworming, and health education. On
a daily basis, members of the TWG including those from outside the school are
generally in-charge of the school WinS operations. Student leaders like the SELG Officers
have established schemes in ensuring that the school campus is free from all
forms of litter. Compost piles of each
class are being checked for possible malpractice of waste disposal. School children have become fully aware and
conscious that their trash would go to the right trash bins wherever they are
in the school campus.
The school
also makes sure that parents, guardians, and other stakeholders are fully aware
and WinS implementers too. In all school
activities, be it monthly celebrations, conferences, assemblies, parties, and
the like, WinS is always part of the picture. Mini lecture on WinS at SPTA Assemblies is
regularly given just so parents learn the significance of water, hygiene,
sanitation, deworming, and health education. The school extends WinS at the learners’
respective homes. This shall bear ripple
effects and shall teach the community the essence of staying healthy and
promoting positive well-being.
Project
SHINE and the Child-Friendly School innovations of the school have
been instrumental in making a big difference in the school compared to how it
was five years ago. These programs and projects are aimed at reinforcing and
creating a healthy and enabling environment for schoolchildren. It continuously provides a safe, healthy, and
thriving setting for the learners as it is important to ensure their total
well-being that is vital for their educational success.
Effective
school health programs that are developed as part of the community partnership
provides one of the most cost-effective ways to reach adolescent and broader
community and sustainability in promoting healthy practices. Improving the health and learning of the
schoolchildren, school-based health and nutrition programs contributed to the
development of the child-friendly school and thus the promotion of education
for all.
“Batang WinS” for three consecutive years
now has made “May Pera sa Basura” fund drive has been instrumental in the
construction of concrete fence in order to secure the school children from the
hazardous high or slopy pathways in the school.
Safety and security of the learning environment go with the preservation
of the general well-being not only of the learners but also with the rest of
the school populace.
WinS has brought
transformational changes in the lives of the learners at Baya Elementary
School. All its efforts and initiatives related
to WinS implementation paved the way to better hygiene habits of the school
children. Teachers’ testimonies speak about how their learners have evolved
into individuals who have become conscious of their overall well-being
especially on staying fit and clean.
The school’s serious
WinS advocacy has attracted stakeholders to support it in all its undertakings. Donations would come in various forms like
toothbrushes, slippers, toothpaste, soaps, alcohol, cleaning materials,
bathroom disinfectants, face masks, trash bags, trash bins, among others. These efforts shall be the school’s driving
force to conceive more sensible programs, projects, and activities that will
intensify and enrich the implementation of Wash in School program.
The school’s
laudable achievements in various academic contests can be directly associated
with the school’s best practices in health education because of the remarkable
97.9% or 330 out of 337 compliant in deworming in the year 2023.
The school
has maintained a zero% drop-out rate for the last five years. Absenteeism in the class has tremendously
decreased. Moreover, less
children are getting sick maybe because of the hygiene education that is
integrated in the lessons. Project SHINE took care of this as one of the
objectives is to reduce morbidity among school children that roots from poor
hygiene and sanitation practices. The supplementary
feeding by the homeroom PTAs has made its significant contribution in improving
the nutritional status of the learners.
Those who rarely have food on their dining table actually have
compelling reasons to go to school because of the help that they get.
I respectfully nominate Mr. Noel R. Dauran, Master Teacher 1 of Baya Elementary School, for Outstanding WASH Advocates (Teacher Category). Since January 2019, he served as WASH coordinator of Baya Elementary School, located at Baya, Ragay, Camarines Sur. His remarkable efforts and transformational leadership in the implementation of Wash in School (WinS) Program of the Department of Education deserve to be appreciated and be given due recognition.
Baya Elementary School is a medium - sized school led by a school principal 1 with 15 teachers from kindergarten to Grade 6, 1 utility/watchman, 339 school children last school year 2023 - 2024 with more than 200 parents/guardians. The school has been humbly working as a team in order to attain its mandate, that is to provide the basic quality education. Committed and true to its mission, all programs, projects, and activities of the Department of Education are in full implementation in this school community judiciously utilizing the annual school MOOE, other additional funds, together with the local funds like the SPTA funds and donations from other stakeholders anchored on transparency and accountability. All expenditures are made according to plans, priorities, and needs of the school community.
Quality basic education is ensured through the serious implementation of the K to 12 Basic Education Program integrating all the other flagship programs of the department whether curricular or co-curricular in nature. The schools believe that in order to develop the learners wholistically, all aspects of their personality should be taken care of with balance.
Wash in school (WinS) Program is one fitting package that school children as young as they should already learn. Its components such as water, sanitation, hygiene, deworming, and health education are basic rudiments of healthy and clean living.
Water is crucial for schoolchildren as this impacts their overall health, academic performance, and well-being. The importance of water testing is tantamount to the general safety of the school’s clienteles, specifically the learners. As they battle with daily academic pursuits, hydration is a must for both optimal functioning. Proper hydration is linked to academic performance. Concentration and learning as well as mental sharpness are necessary for optimum cognitive functions. Physical activities that learners go through would require so much energy level. Children who are well-hydrated are more likely to be active and engaged.
The school’s effort to provide potable water and the presence of the four (4) group handwashing facilities have made water accessible for all. This has helped learners develop that habit of using water as the primary agent for staying clean.
Sanitation is as critically as important as water for school-aged children as this impacts their health, academic performance, and overall well-being too. At school, learners are taught the benefits of health and disease prevention if good sanitation practices such as regular handwashing and using clean facilities are part of their everyday routines. The spread of diseases like colds, flu, and other infections are prevented if learners are well-informed.
The school has realized the great importance of using alcohol and other sanitation elements during the COVID19 outbreak. Since then, procurement of alcohol and other sanitary goods or supplies has always been a priority over other things needed in the school operations. One has to stay safe and sound! Proper waste disposal has promoted healthy habits to all.
Proper hygiene which includes handwashing, brushing teeth, and maintaining cleanliness, helps prevent the spread of infections and illnesses. Good hygiene practices reduce the risk of foodborne diseases and infections that can result from poor sanitation or unclean hand and surfaces. If children are free from illnesses, absenteeism will be avoided. Essentially, they will be in school to attend classes. Hence, academic performance will most likely improve. Healthy children are able to concentrate and participate in classroom activities.
Deworming improves children’s nutritional status. Just like the other components of WinS, it is crucial to the learners’ over-all well-being. It is contributory to their academic success. It is not only benefits individual children but it also contributes to healthier communities
Baya Elementary School started its WinS journey from scratch. In 2019 when Ms. Aguirre set her foot on its campus, there was no group handwashing facility that was functional. The two WATSAN facilities by DepEd were all busted. There was no water supply. The campus was using the water supply from the community which was from a stream. Hence, it was not fit for drinking. Improvised rain catchments were being utilized to store rainwater in order to use for cleaning and for watering plants.
Over the last three years, however, the school has significantly transformed. It has successfully complied with the minimum requirements set by the Department of Education along with the construction of group handwashing facilities. From zero to four functional group handwashing facilities with water supply are now a good sight to see in the campus. During the pandemic, two group handwashing facilities were constructed.
The school head realigned some budget that were not utilized like training and travel and gave optimum priority to having such facility. She also went the extra mile by forging partnerships with stakeholders; she honestly laid them the plight of the school and the need of the school children. The late Congressman Rolando G. Andaya, Sr. and Architect Maribel Andaya-Eusebio donated another group handwashing facility. Busted WATSAN facilities were allocated with budget for minor repair of school structure through the School MOOE. Now these facilities are fully functional. These include the repair of the seven (7) comfort rooms attached to the two units of WATSAN. The school’s effort to provide potable water and the presence of the four (4) group handwashing facilities have made water accessible for all. This has helped learners developed that habit of using water as the primary agent for staying clean.
The school also have other donors for feeding like Tau Gamma Phi, Alpha Kappa Rho, and other private individuals whose identity are kept confidential. Other donations from alumni and other benefactors have come in the form of supplies such as toothbrush, toothpaste, slippers, school supplies, health kits, and cleaning materials.
Additional comfort rooms were built as Homeroom PTA Projects in some classes who did use to have such. Further, rest areas in the intermediate classrooms were made as well. This was to provide an appropriate place for girls who have suffer from pain or inconvenience whenever they have their monthly periods.
The presence of functional group handwashing facility, water supply, and comfort rooms have paved the way to regular conduct of group handwashing, toothbrushing, and all others in between. In effect, teachers have come up with sets of parents/guardians in the case of the primary grades assigned as cleaners in order to maintain the cleanliness of such facilities. Among the intermediate grades, learners are tasked to clean their own comfort rooms; student leaders or class officers lead their class for the group handwashing and other related routines.
In order to ensure full implementation of the Wash in School (WinS) program, the school head initiated a school level contest among all classes. The contest aimed at identifying classes with best practices covering all components of the program. In order to get rid of biases, primary grades teachers judge the intermediate classes, and intermediate classes judge the primary grades. This has shown positive effects along the sustainability of the program. Such school level competition evolves into a reward and recognition mechanism of the school. The selection committee involves parents, SPTA Officials, SGC Officers, and other community leaders. Criteria have been set for it to become a legitimate incentive instrument recognizing exemplary performance and outstanding compliance as WinS advocates.
Mentoring program has been in place at this institution. Based on the results of the school level contest, teachers who scored low would be helped, monitored, supervised constantly by the WinS Coordinator and the School Heal herself. This is done to ensure that teachers improve their competence and technical know-how in WinS implementation. Provision of technical assistance from the school head and the WinS coordinator has boosted teachers’ confidence in pursuing excellence in spite of inadequacies.
In the same manner, the creation/organization of the Technical Working Group (TWG) in intensifying WASH advocacy has helped a lot in equipping teachers with technical know-how and expertise in looking into each component such as water, hygiene, sanitation, deworming, and health education. On a daily basis, members of the TWG including those from outside the school are generally in-charge of the school WinS operations. Student leaders like the SELG Officers have established schemes in ensuring that the school campus is free from all forms of litter. Compost piles of each class are being checked for possible malpractice of waste disposal. School children have become fully aware and conscious that their trash would go to the right trash bins wherever they are in the school campus.
The school also makes sure that parents, guardians, and other stakeholders are fully aware and WinS implementers too. In all school activities, be it monthly celebrations, conferences, assemblies, parties, and the like, WinS is always part of the picture. Mini lecture on WinS at SPTA Assemblies is regularly given just so parents learn the significance of water, hygiene, sanitation, deworming, and health education. The school extends WinS at the learners’ respective homes. This shall bear ripple effects and shall teach the community the essence of staying healthy and promoting positive well-being.
Project SHINE and the Child-Friendly School innovations of the school have been instrumental in making a big difference in the school compared to how it was five years ago. These programs and projects are aimed at reinforcing and creating a healthy and enabling environment for schoolchildren. It continuously provides a safe, healthy, and thriving setting for the learners as it is important to ensure their total well-being that is vital for their educational success.
Effective school health programs that are developed as part of the community partnership provides one of the most cost-effective ways to reach adolescent and broader community and sustainability in promoting healthy practices. Improving the health and learning of the schoolchildren, school-based health and nutrition programs contributed to the development of the child-friendly school and thus the promotion of education for all.
“Batang WinS” for three consecutive years now has made “May Pera sa Basura” fund drive has been instrumental in the construction of concrete fence in order to secure the school children from the hazardous high or slopy pathways in the school. Safety and security of the learning environment go with the preservation of the general well-being not only of the learners but also with the rest of the school populace.
WinS has brought transformational changes in the lives of the learners at Baya Elementary School. All its efforts and initiatives related to WinS implementation paved the way to better hygiene habits of the school children. Teachers’ testimonies speak about how their learners have evolved into individuals who have become conscious of their overall well-being especially on staying fit and clean.
The school’s serious WinS advocacy has attracted stakeholders to support it in all its undertakings. Donations would come in various forms like toothbrushes, slippers, toothpaste, soaps, alcohol, cleaning materials, bathroom disinfectants, face masks, trash bags, trash bins, among others. These efforts shall be the school’s driving force to conceive more sensible programs, projects, and activities that will intensify and enrich the implementation of Wash in School program.
The school’s laudable achievements in various academic contests can be directly associated with the school’s best practices in health education because of the remarkable 97.9% or 330 out of 337 compliant in deworming in the year 2023.
The school has maintained a zero% drop-out rate for the last five years. Absenteeism in the class has tremendously decreased. Moreover, less children are getting sick maybe because of the hygiene education that is integrated in the lessons. Project SHINE took care of this as one of the objectives is to reduce morbidity among school children that roots from poor hygiene and sanitation practices. The supplementary feeding by the homeroom PTAs has made its significant contribution in improving the nutritional status of the learners. Those who rarely have food on their dining table actually have compelling reasons to go to school because of the help that they get.
Other Information
2025-2026 - Sustainability
2024-2025 - Seal of Excellence
2023-2024 –
3-Star Awardee
2022-2023 –
3-Star Awardee
2021-2022 –
3-Star Awardee
Signed:
NOEL R.
DAURAN ALMA C. AGUIRRE
Master Teacher 1
School Principal 1 Nominee Nominator
CYNTHIA H. TURIANO, RN
Division
Nurse
Nominator
ROBERTO B. BRIONES, EdD
Public
Schools District Supervisor
Other Information
2025-2026 - Sustainability
2024-2025 - Seal of Excellence
2023-2024 –
3-Star Awardee
2022-2023 –
3-Star Awardee
2021-2022 –
3-Star Awardee
Signed:
Master Teacher 1 School Principal 1
Division Nurse
Nominator
Public Schools District Supervisor
