BAGUIO CITY, July18 (PIA) – The Lucban Elementary School along Magsaysay Avenue, this city, is a beneficiary of a two-storey four-classroom building from the SM Foundation.
 
SM Foundation Executive Director for Education Carmen Linda Atayde, SM Baguio Mall Manager Rona Vida Correa and Rafael Tallocoy of the City Mayors Office  together with  Lucban ES Principal Joseph Estigoy and Parents Teachers Association President Girlie Garcia led the blessing and inauguration of the newly completed school building last July 5.
 
The new school building is fully furnished with four toilets, 200 armchairs, four sets of teacher’s tables and chairs, eight blackboards, 16 electric wall fans and four wall clocks.
 
“Thank you is not enough to fully express our gratitude to SM and SM Foundation for their generosity that will surely benefit our school children,” Estigoy said. “The students will have a better environment for learning that will inspire them and even make them enjoy studying more,” he added.
 
“Four classes for Grade III students will occupy the four classrooms in this new school building,” Estigoy informed.
 
The Lucban Elem. School is the  second  biggest school with over 2,800 students mostly from barangays  Happy Homes, Trancoville, Dizon Subdivision, Quirino Hill, Sanitary Camp, Lower Quirino Hill, Lower Pinget and nearby areas  of La Trinidad,Benguet.  
 
Garcia also expressed gratitude to the SM Foundation for   the fully equipped new building with an ambience conducive to learning.     
 
Atayde said that the new building is the 75th school building the SM Foundation has donated as support to the different schools nationwide since its school building program started in 2002.
 
“SM Foundation has been a constant partner of DepEd’s Adopt-a-School Program which aims to reduce the gap between private and public school education specifically in lack of facilities. Since 2002, through its School Building Program, SM Foundation has improved the quality of education by providing a more conducive environment for learning that has increased student attendance and test scores as well as boost the morale of the teachers,” said Atayde.
 
Recently, the Baguio Central School was a recipient of the high tech gadgets turning an old classroom into a “Smart Classroom” benefitting more than 3,000 elementary students of the city. (JDP/RMC- PIA CAR)