The teaching-learning process involves a wide array of factors that contribute to its success.

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these factors include the teacher, the students, the administration, the stakeholders and the
learningenvironment. From among the mentioned factors, the learning environment plays a very vital
role inensuring that the vision, mission and objectives of the Department of Education. This factor
provides ananchor on the effectiveness of the holistic development of the school. Aside from the
physical attributesof the school, school administrators should al-so promote that hygiene and sanitation
are always well-observed inside the campus. As an answer to this, the Department of Education issued
DepEd Order No.10, s.2016 which involves the Policy Guidelines for the Comprehensive WinS Program
for the promotionof correct hygiene and sanitation practices among school children and a clean
environment and aroundschools to keep learners safe and healthy.The advocacy on the promotion of
correct hygiene and sanitation practices among school childrenand a clean environment has been the
government’s priority through the Department of Education to keepthe learners safe and healthy, excel
academically and develop to be productive citizens in the country.The world’s problematic environment
has impacts on children particularly in health and academic performance that trapped in a cycle of
diseases and poverty for a lifetime . Nearly 90% of the world’sschool -aged children live in low and
middle income countries where living conditions often result in high prevalence of poverty-related
diseases. Whether at school or home, overcrowded buildings, lack of cleanwater and sanitation facilities,
poor awareness and poor personal hygiene practices are the root causes of many diseases; and so is the
lack of healthy and balanced diet. Infectious diseases like diarrhea,respiratory infections, skin diseases,
worm infections and dental caries are very common, considerednormal, socially accepted therefore
neglected.“Access to water, sanitation and hygiene services is important for effective infection
preventionand control especially in an educational setting. Promoting handwashing activities and
maintaining a safe,clean, and healthy learning environment are highly effective measures to reduce the
transmission of theCOVID-19 virus and other infectious diseases,”The overall level of implementation of
areas of WinS was highly implemented byCALAOCANELEMENTARY SCHOOL due to support of the
program administrators, program implementers andschool health personnel in partnership with the
partnership with the Parents Teachers Association (PTA,Government organization (GO’s), non-
Government organizations’ (NGO’s), Local Government Units of Dipaculao to ensure the promotion,
improvement and sustenance of the program implementation particularly in the construction of the
school health and nutrition facilities in the areas of water, sanitation,hygiene, deworming and health
education to continuously meet the standard and requirements needed ineach areas to provide a school
environment that is safe and free of vector-borne diseases leading to aschool environment that is
conducive to learning