SY 2016-2017
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF L A SALLE GREEN HILLS CENTRO-EIP
Alternative
Learning System:
Providing Opportunities
In 2011, the Lasallian Mission Office offered an option
to out-of-school youth, vendors, household help, drivers,
and others who would like to return to school and get their
diplomas in the elementary and secondary levels. Under
the flag of the LMO, La Salle Green Hills introduced the
Alternative Learning System (ALS) to accommodate learners
who may have found it difficult adjusting to a formal school
setup. It is a year-round program where learners may apply
anytime. Currently, the program caters to around 60 learners
under the supervision of Registrar Br. Ruben Caluyong FSC,
ALS teachers Mrs. Cathy Lambinicio and Mrs. Weena Meily,
together with the Lasallian Brothers and volunteers from the
Tulong Aral Sa Kapatid (TASK) program, Grade School and
High School.
The ALS program utilizes a self-paced system of modules
to learn basic life skills. It is made of five learning strands:
Communication Skills, Critical Thinking and Problem
Solving, Sustainable Use of Resources, Development of Self
and a Sense of Community, and Expanding One’s World
Vision. Aside from the module-based program, there are also
enrichment classes and for those who aspire to continue on
to Senior High School/College, a bridging program.
Under the 10 month-long curriculum, learners have
the option of choosing their 2-day schedule of classes from
Tuesday to Friday, with 4 hours per meeting from March up
to the scheduled date of their Accreditation and Equivalency
(A&E) test. This test aims to determine their proficiency in
all the modules and is required for ALS learners to pass in
order to receive certification from the school.
Truly, the program is a living reminder of St. La Salle’s
mission, of advancing education to the poor and providing
opportunities to the underserved.
TASK: Learners
Helping Learners
TASK began in the ‘90s, with Mr. Teddy Villanueva and
Mrs. Grace Suratos, as an outreach program of volunteer
High School faculty members to the community of Boso Boso,
Antipolo. It was Ms. Rosimo who coined the name TASK -
Tulong Aral Sa Kapatid and by 1997, Social Action Coordinator
Ms. Laura de Guzman began bringing students to Boso Boso.
Succeeding Social Action Coordinators later moved the venue
to Barangay West Crame and again, the venue was changed
this year due to the government’s ongoing Operation Tokhang
(from the Cebuano “Toktok-Hangyo,” meaning “approach and
talk”) anti-drug campaign, which included West Crame. This
Saturday reach-out program of the High School department is
where students and teacher-volunteers conduct reinforcement
classes in English, Math and Science at Camp Crame High
School.
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The
Saint Brother Miguel
Academy Program:
Education for the Youth
The Saint Brother Miguel Academy (SBMA) Program has
its roots in the late ‘60s, when the young Brothers of La Salle
Green Hills conceived of a Sunday school-like activity wherein
they taught children from poor communities who did not have
the privilege of receiving religious instruction.
The SBMA program has been supplementing the learning
of marginalized youth in Barangays Saint Joseph and Corazon
De Jesus in San Juan by providing them with basic catechism,
basic literacy, and physical education classes, at the same time
instilling in them the Lasallian values of faith, service, and
communion.
For the past years, the postulants of the De La Salle
Brothers at the Lasallian Formation Center have handled
SBMA. Together in the mission of helping are the LSGH
Grade 12 students and teacher-volunteers from both the
Grade School and High School departments. Implemented 2
Sundays every month, it is a half-day activity that begins with
a Mass in the morning and ends at around 11:30 AM.
In schoolyear 2016-2017, the program was participated
in by 160 students from Kinder to Grade 10. Aside from
classroom-based learning, extra-curricular activities such as
Christmas Party, Sports Fest and First Holy Communion were
included, with the hope that these will lead the youth to be
more Christ-like.
– Mr. Jeanoel Endaya
Program for Deaf Learners:
A Step Towards
Mainstreaming
“Your hearing status
The Program for Deaf
Learners at the Adult Night doesn’t make you
High School, which caters to
students with hearing difficulties,
a better person.
began in 2003 under the leadership Your humanity does.”
of Mrs. Teresita V. Gorayeb and Br. ― Rosie Malezer,
Bernard S. Oca FSC. Eight deaf students
from Mandaluyong and Pasig and one
How to be Deaf
interpreter participated in the trial period,
which lasted for one quarter.
This year, the program has a total of 43 deaf students.
It caters to deaf learners aged 15-25 who come from hearing
parents/guardians. Majority of the students complete the 5-year
high school program, while some enroll by Grade 8 and 9. Most
of the enrollees are residents of nearby areas like Mandaluyong,
Pasig, Rizal, and Quezon City. Most are full-time students, while
a few work part-time.
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in helpful endeavors, like
covering books at the library,
perfecting Grade School pupils,
sorting and counting coins for Pondo ng Pinoy
and labeling students’ folders at the
Guidance Office.

By reaching out to the less fortunate, TASK

rekindles its commitment to continue the mission of
St. John Baptist de La Salle, that of educating poor
children. It is reaching back to the past, to the very
heart of St. La Salle’s creed, by extending a helping
hand to those who constitute our future.
– Mrs. Belinda D. Jacob

Interested Lasallians may sign up at the Lasallian Mission

Office (LMO) or send an email to belinds.jacob@lsgh.edu.ph for
2 inquiries about this program.
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Scholarships at La Salle Green Hills are
largely merit-based; they are awarded
to students in recognition of their exemplary
performance in academics and to athlete-applicants who exhibit
excellence in basketball, football, swimming, taekwondo, and other
related sports.
Students may apply for 100% tuition and fees or partial tuition
discounts (ranging from 25% to 100%). Seventy-three (73) out of the
314 scholarships awarded during schoolyear 2015-2016 were in these
categories – academics and athletics.
Aside from merit-based scholarships, LSGH also provides grants
that are need-based; these are grants for which applicants are assessed
based on their current family status and other factors. The Student
Financial Assistance Program (SFAP), for one, has provided varying
grants to seventy-five (75) students for 2015-2016; other need-based
grants include the Dra. Castañeda AFSC scholarship, designed to
support the education of one high school student and the La Salle
Parents’ Association (LSPA) scholarship, an annual partial tuition
discount (50%) to students with financial difficulties. 25,163,755.20
There are also student-specific types of scholarships, with the
Employee Benefit falling under this category. Dependents of qualified
LSGH personnel are awarded an annual 100% tuition subsidy at LSGH of military personnel, children of lay Lasallian partners serving in
or La Salle College Antipolo (LSCA) as well as a 50% tuition subsidy Lasallian institutions, and relatives of De La Salle Brothers. There are
at DLSU, DLS-CSB, LSCA, DLSU-Dasmariñas & De La Salle Health also scholarships intended to make LSGH more accessible to deserving
Sciences Institute (DLSHSI), provided they satisfy all the requirements top graduates from public elementary schools, the Luis Co Chi Kiat
for admission. Similarly, LSGH provides scholarships to children (LCCK) scholarship and the Public School Scholarship Program (PSSP).

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The Program for Deaf Learners is mainstreamed, maintaining the
hearing and deaf students in one class where they curriculum,
follow only 1 curriculum. The class is facilitated the deaf learners
by a hearing teacher who has undergone also attend the following:
specialized training in Deaf Education
and Filipino Sign Language (FSL)
courses, and is assisted by a
Sign Language Interpreter
GRADE POPULATION and a Guidance Counselor
LEVEL for the Deaf. Currently,
7 2 there are 7 part-
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8 9 interpreters.
9 16 Aside from the high school

10 7 The presence of this program recalls

St. La Salle’s precept of teaching
SHS 9 the less fortunate. It offers a unique
opportunity to those whom a chance
at education would otherwise pass
them by.

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CENTRO Link
would like
to thank
the following:
Mrs. Belinda Jacob
Mr. Jeanoel Endaya
Mrs. Indrie Ronda
Ms. Junelyn Domingo
Mrs. Edwina Meily
Mrs. Catherine Lambinicio

Mrs. Agnes Alonsozana

Mrs. Geberlie Roesch
Mrs. Elsa Ligsay

Br. Alex Diaz FSC

The Institutional Registrar’s
Office
Lasallian Mission Office

Ms. Mercy Castillo

Mr. Dennis Enraca

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