Parents

The home is where a child’s learning begins. It is where a child learns to make his very first step. It is where a child learns his ABCs. It is where a child learns how to count numbers and identify shapes.

This is why parents play a very crucial role in our children’s education – and Synergeia’s work in hundreds of communities throughout the country has proven this to be true.

Parents need to be as active as teachers in helping children enjoy school more, develop study habits, and hone the skills he needs to excel in the classroom and in the much bigger school we call “life”.

 
 
 

Discovering the power to change

For years, teachers and parents in this small school in a remote village in Sulu, the Philippines’ southernmost island, have been witness to perennial problems that have stunted their children’s learning.

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Encouraging reading through storytelling

Around 70 children from public schools in Brgy. Commonwealth in Quezon City were treated to a morning of storytelling to boost their interest in reading.

Youth volunteers from the Holy Trinity Parish, fresh from their Museo Pambata training to be storytellers, entertained the children with stories – complete with cartoon drawings.

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Sharing the gift of reading

When Grade One pupils in Sual Central School in Pangasinan were tested for reading proficiency from July 24 to 27, 2009, school administrators confirmed a hard fact: nine out of 10 pupils could not read and only 2% of the students were reading at the appropriate level. (View test results here)

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