TVNHS Conducts Kickoff of Catch-up Fridays

Tropical Village National High School demonstrated its complete support for Deped Memorandum No.001, s. 2024, titled The Implementation of Catch-up Fridays, by conducting a Kick-off program last Friday, January 12, 2024.

Our Schools Division Office Personnel, Dr. Rogin O. Contemprato, PSDS Cluster 8, as well as Sir Mark Joshua B. Animas, Information Technology Officer I and Ma’am Pauline Vianca F. Cardines, Administrative Aide VI, attended the Kick-off program at Tropical Village National High School

The first Friday of the program was dedicated to the “Drop Everything and Read” (DEAR) activity where Tropicalian learners participated through reading books and other reading materials available in their classrooms. Other students were handed the newly obtained “Developing Reading Power” books which are appropriate to the levels of learners.

All Fridays during the school year will be intended for Catch-up Fridays, with an emphasis on implementing the National Reading Program (NRP) and promoting Values, Health, and Peace Education.

Catch-up Friday, according to Deped, is a “learning mechanism intended to strengthen the foundational, social, and other relevant skill necessary to actualize the intent of the basic education curriculum”.

This program was implemented to alleviate learning gaps among grade school and high school students, as well as to provide opportunities to improve students’ academic performance, notably their poor reading proficiency levels as measured by national and international large-scale tests.

During the Catch-up Fridays Kick-off program, students from various grade levels were instructed and oriented by their teachers about the activities to be carried out, the materials required, the schedule of activities every Friday, and the role of each learner in making this program successful and productive.

Furthermore, the first Catch-up Friday activity made use of a variety of reading materials, including developing Reading Power, old textbooks, modules, and other educational reference materials.