Republic of the Philippines

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Region 02
Division of Cagayan
Aparri West District
APARRI WEST CENTRAL SCHOOL

SCHOOL CHILD PROTECTION POLICIES

In cognizance with the law that the school and family are the safest place for

children and they must be nurtured and kept in a safe, gender-sensitive and

motivating environment. Article 218 of the Family Code of the Philippines provides

the responsibilities of school administrators, teachers, academic and non-academic

and other personnel to exercise special parental authority and responsibility over the

child under their supervision, instruction and custody. It is also the mandate to give

children the love and affection, advice and counsel, companionship and

understanding.

Aparri West Central School is fully committed to actively safeguarding children

from harm and to ensuring that children’s rights to protection are fully realized. We

take seriously our responsibility to promote child-safe practices and to protect

children from harm, abuse, neglect, and exploitation in any form. 

School head, teachers and parents will work together to embrace difference

and diversity and respect the rights of children and young people.

The Aparri West Central School ensures its pupils a child-friendly environment

system where we practice positive and non-violent discipline and we uphold to the

call of the law as substitute parents or guardians.

This policy is based on the following principles:

 The welfare of children is the primary concern.

 All children, whatever their gender, colour, disability, age, religious or political

belief, sexual orientation, social background,culture have the right to protection

from all forms of harm and abuse.

 Child protection is everyone's responsibility;

 Respond to any allegations of misconduct or abuse of children in line with this

Policy

 Observe guidelines issued by local Child Protection Committees for the

protection of children.

 All suspicions and allegations of abuse will be taken seriously and responded to

swiftly and appropriately.

RULES AND REGULATIONS

The school’s child protection policies were designed to be observed and

implemented at all times as follows;

TEACHERS

DO’S

1. Treat pupils and others with warmth and respect. Let pupils know that you are

available to listen and help them.

2. Practice what you preach.

3. Conduct classroom activities around bullying.  Help your class identify bullying in

books, TV shows and movies, and discuss the impact of that bullying and how it

was/could be resolved.
4. Promote the health and welfare of children by providing opportunities for them to

take part in Sport safely.

5. Respect and promote the rights, wishes and feelings of children.

6. Promote and implement appropriate procedures to safeguard the well-being of

children and protect them from abuse.

7. Treat pupils and others with warmth and respect.

8. Be compassionate and friendly to pupils, give them genuine love and affection,

advice and counsel, companionship and understanding

9. Be considerate of pupils’ individual differences (status in life, physical,

psychological, economical, and other profile)

10. Correct pupils’ misbehaviors individually and privately. Enhance, protect,

preserve and maintain their physical and mental health at all times.

11. Keep pupils safe inside the classroom during instructional time and keep in their

company and support, educate and instruct them by right precepts and good

examples. Use human hand or soft pointer when emphasizing ideas or lessons;

12. Inculcate the value of respect and obedience. Practice SMILE Principles;

13. Impose merit for children’s training and discipline enhancement

14. Furnish pupils with good and wholesome educational materials, supervise their

activities, recreation and association with others, protect them from bad company

and prevent them from acquiring habits detrimental to their health, studies and

morals;

15. Advocate gender sensitivity. Equal respect is given for both genders. Call pupils

by name;

16. Maintain safe, orderly and conducive learning environment. Ensure the safety of

all pupils; and

17. Advocate and practice positive and non – violent discipline of children.

DON’TS

1. Don’t humiliate pupils in front of other pupils or classmates.

2. Don’t deduct or give threat of deduction from grade or merit from pupils as a form

of punishment.

3. Don’t discriminate pupils from one another.

4. Don’t scold pupils in public. Avoid uttering unpleasant words to pupils.

5. Don’t send pupils for an errand during instructional time.

6. Avoid using stick or hard pointers while teaching to avoid accident.

7. Corporal punishment is strictly PROHIBITED. It shall not be imposed on any child

in school for the purpose of discipline, training or control.

8. Don’t give brand names to pupils.

9. Don’t touch private/sensitive body parts of the pupils.

10. Don’t let pupils litter, destroy and vandal school properties.

11. Don’t assign pupils to perform task hazardous to their physical well – being.

12. Avoid stalking or constantly following or pursuing a person in his/her daily

activities with unwanted and obsessive attention.

13. Don’t demand or require sexual or monetary favors, or exacting money or

property, from a pupil.

14. Don’t use children for someone else’s advantage, gratification or profit resulting in

an unjust, cruel and harmful treatment of the child.

15. Don’t use the pupils in work or other activities for the benefits of others.

16. Don’t force a child to perform physically painful or damaging acts such as, but not

limited to, holding a weight or weights for an extended period and kneeling on

stones, salt, pebbles or other objects.

17. Don’t deprive a child’s physical needs as a form of punishment.

18. Don’t inflict verbal abuse or assaults, including intimidation or threat of bodily

harm, swearing or cursing and ridiculing the child.

19. Don’t force the child to wear a sign, to undress or disrobe, or to put on anything

that will make a child look or feel foolish which belittles or humiliates the child in

front of others.

20. Don’t blow, beat, kick, hit, slap, or lash of any part of a child’s body with or

without the use of an instrument such as but not limited to a cane, broom, stick,

whip or belt.

21. Don’t confiscate personal property of pupils except when such pieces of property

pose a danger to the child or to others.

PUPILS

DO’S

1. Have the right to express views on all matters which affect them, should they

wish to do so.

2. Comply with the school’s child protection policies.

3. Conduct themselves in accordance with their levels of development, maturity,

and demonstrate capabilities with proper regard for the rights and welfare of other

persons.

4. Respect another person’s rights regardless of opinion, status, gender, ethnicity,

religion as well as everyone’s moral and physical integrity.

5. Observe the Code of Conduct for Pupils and Learners.

6. Use personal belongings properly. Take only what is yours.

7. Protect (oneself) private parts from exposure to avoid sexual harassment.

8. Observe good manners and right conduct at all time.

9. Respect and be obedient to teachers and elders.

10. Practice and demonstrate the core values of being – Maka-Diyos, Maka-Tao,

Maka-Bansa and Maka-Kalikasan

DON’T’S

1. Don’t engage in discriminating or leading a group of pupils to discriminate

another, with reference to one’s physical.

2. Refrain from doing any act that is inappropriate or sexually provocative.

3. Avoid participating in behavior of other pupils that are illegal, unsafe or abusive.

4. Refrain from marking or damaging school property, including books in any way.

5. Don’t tease each other to avoid trouble and accident.

6. Avoid using other personal belongings.

7. Don’t show/touch sensitive parts of one’s body or classmates/schoolmates.

8. Don’t inflict physical injury/violence or verbal abuse to classmates/schoolmates

and teachers.

9. Don’t say bad words or do untoward acts to classmates, teachers, and elders.

10. Don’t inflict verbal abuse or assaults, including intimidation or threat of bodily

harm, swearing or cursing, ridiculing or denigrating schoolmates/classmates.

11. Don’t force schoolmates/classmates to wear a sign, to undress or disrobe, or to

put on anything that will make a child look or feel foolish which belittles or

humiliates the child in front of others.

12. Don’t blow, beat, kick, slap, or lash of any part of a schoolmates/classmates’

body with or without the use of an instrument such as but not limited to a cane,

broom, stick, whip or belt.

13. Don’t strike a schoolmates/classmates’ face or head, such being declared as a

“no contact zone”

 SCHOOL HEAD

DO’S

1. Treat pupils and others with warmth and respect

2. Ensure that the school shall be conducive to learning and children shall have the

right to education free from fear

3. All children shall be protected from all forms of abuse and bullying to develop self

– esteem and self – confidence.

4. Shall advocate a positive and non – violent mode of disciplining children to foster

self – discipline and to improve self – esteem.

5. School head shall take step to prevent bullying and ensure that appropriate

interventions, counselling and other services are provided for the victims of

abuse, violence, exploitation, discrimination and bullying.

6. Ensure that pupils or learners shall respect the rights of others and refrain from

committing acts of bullying and peer violence.

7. Parents shall be actively involved in all school activities or events that raise

awareness on children’s rights, positive discipline and the prevention of bullying.

8. Ensure that all pupils, learners, teachers, parents, guardians or custodians, and

visitors and guest are made of the Child Protection Policies.

9. Conduct disciplinary proceedings in cases of offenses committed by

pupils/learners.

10. Ensure that the participatory and other rights of children are respected and

upheld in all matters and procedures affecting their welfare.

11. Establish a functional Child Protection Committee (CPC) which is composing of

the following members:

 Chairperson School Head/Administrator

Vice – Chairperson Guidance Counselor/Teacher

Teachers’ Representative As designated by the Faculty Club

Parents’ Representative As designated by the PTA

Pupils’ Representative As designated by the SGC

Community Representative As designated by the Punong

barangay

Preferably a member of the barangay

Council for the Protection of Children

(BCPC)

DON’TS

1. Deprivation of a child’s physical needs as a form of punishment

2. Verbal abuse or assaults, including intimidation or threat of bodily harm, swearing

or cursing, ridiculing or denigrating the child.

3. Confinement, imprisonment or depriving the liberty of a child.

4. Forcing a child to perform physically painful or damaging acts such as, but not

limited to, holding a weight or weights for an extended period and kneeling on

stones, salt, pebbles or other objects.

5. Forcing a child to wear a sign, to undress or disrobe, or put on anything that will

make a child look or feel foolish, which belittles or humiliates the child in front of

others.

6. Tying up a child.
 PARENTS

DO’S

1. Parents shall be actively involved in all school activities or events that raise

awareness on children’s rights, positive discipline and the prevention of bullying.

2. Keep children safe inside their homes and keep them in their company and

support, educate and instruct them by right precepts and good examples. Use

human hand or soft pointer when emphasizing ideas or lessons.

3. Inculcate the value of respect and obedience. Practice SMILE principles.

4. Impose love, compassion and merit for children’s r=training and discipline

enhancement.

5. Furnish children with good and wholesome educational materials, supervise their

activities, recreation and association with others, protect them from bad company

and prevent them from acquiring habits detrimental to their health, studies, and

morals.

DON’TS

1. Don’t deprive a child’s physical needs as a form of punishment.

2. Don’t tie up a child, or deliberately expose to fire, ice, water, smoke, sunlight,

rain, pepper, alcohol or forcing the child to swallow substances, dangerous

chemicals and other materials that can cause discomfort or threaten the child’s

health, safety and sense of security such as but not limited to bleach or

insecticides, excrement or urine.

3. Don’t inflict verbal abuse or assaults, including intimidation or threat of bodily

harm, swearing or cursing, ridiculing or denigrating the child.

4. Don’t force the child to wear a sign, to undress or disrobe, or put on anything that

will make a child look or feel foolish, which belittles or humiliates the child in front

of others.

5. Don’t blow, beat, kick, slap, or lash of any part of a schoolmates/classmates’

body with or without the use of an instrument such as but not limited to a cane,

broom, stick, whip or belt.

6. Don’t strike a child’s face or head, such being declared as a “no contact zone”.

7. Don’t pull hair, shake, twist joints, cut or pierce skin, drag, and push or throw off a

child.

8. Don’t confine, imprison or deprive the liberty of a child.

9. Don’t deprived the child on food, water or access to changing facilities or toilets.
 Republic of the Philippines
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Region 02
Division of Cagayan
Aparri West District
APARRI WEST CNTRAL SCHOOL

CHILD PROTECTION COMMITTEE (CPC)

Chairperson RICHARD M. PASTOR 09175579702

Vice Chairperson GRACE T. GALANO 09269822962

Teacher’s ALMA B. UCOL 09358997885

Representative

Parents’ ERNESTO T. PALACAY 09356063394

Representative

Pupils’ JOEL CARTAGENA III 093568295

Representative

Community RODOLFO L. CARTAGENA 09359252549

Representative

TEACHING STAFF
RICHARD M. PASTOR PRINCIPAL I
GRACE T. GALANO MASTER TEACHER I
ALMA B. UCOL TEACHER III
MA. AURORA F. PAGADUAN TEACHER III
RUCELLIE TERESA M. GUSTO TEACHER III
JULITA B. DELA CRUZ TEACHER III
VISITACION S. MARAMAG TEACHER III
EVELYN R. PABLO TEACHER III
CLARISA P. ADDUN TEACHER III
MARIVEL B. VASQUEZ TEACHER II
RIA T. AZUCENA TEACHER I
JOAN G. VILLAMAR TEACHER 1
MARISSA B. GUITERING TEACHER I
CHERY R. NAPOLES TEACHER I

SPECIAL FUNCTIONS:

MA. AURORA F. PAGADUAN SCHOOL GUIDANCE COUNSELOR DESIGNATE

GRACE T. GALANO SCHOOL SPIRITUAL COORDINATOR
RIA T. AZUCENA SUPREME PUPIL GOVERNMENT ADVISER