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March 30, 2021

Dear SMILE Parents,

Praised be Jesus Christ!

I hope that we are all preparing for a meaningful, reflective and blessed Holy Week.  There are many recollections and Holy Week activities online.

Do please be reminded of the following:

1. Final Exams are as follows:

April 11-13    Grade 1-3

April 12-16    Pre-Kinder and Kinder

April 14-16   Grades 4-9

To secure exam permit, please settle po including the April installment of fees. For Grades 1-9, please check po the mCourser of your children for the statement of account. For Pre-K and Kinder, the Class Adviser will send it to you through Messenger.

2. Please send the formal picture of your child to the Class Adviser through email. It is needed for the digital certificates. The teachers are already starting to make the digital certificates for Recognition, Moving-Up, Kinder Completion and Graduation Ceremonies. All ceremonies will be live (real-time) through Zoom.

Pictures for digital yearbook are only voluntary.  Please submit the best picture of your child taken during online class, performance task, or during a Zoom presentation.

3. Grade 6 please settle the Recollection Fee as scheduled.
4. April 19 Start of Preschool Academic Contests (championships)
5. Year-End Ceremonies, which both learners and parents will attend:                                     April 28 Moving-Up Ceremonies for all undergrad levels                                                         April 29 Recognition Ceremonies for Honor Students in all Undergrad Levels                  April 30 Baccalaureate Mass, Kinder Completion Ceremony, and Grade 6 Graduation Ceremony

6. For those families that have not yet claimed their children’s school ID and enrollment contract, please claim these from the school gate. Kindly double check first if you have actually submitted the soft copy of your child’s ID picture. I understand that some have not done so yet, so the ID company did not make for those learners until now.

Thank you very much. God bless and protect all families! Please stay safe po.

With my prayers for everyone,

Teacher Julie

School Administrator

ONLINE SCHOOL POLICY MEMORANDUM NO. 2020-07

Date:               March 10, 2021

To:                   All Grade 1-9 SMILE Faculty, Learners and their Parents

From:              The Administrator

Re:                  Live Online Performance Tasks, Integrity, and  New Rubrics for Asynchronous Tasks

The purpose of SMILE as a school is to develop good Filipino Christian leaders.  What this translates to in terms of the curricular program have been discussed in the parents’ as well as the learners’ orientation.  This includes independence of learners in answering exams.  Behavior Indicators in the learner’s progress report card include honesty, determination, dedication and persistence.

In order to give clarity, consistency and efficiency in the implementation of academic policies for the rest of School Year 2020-2021 and onwards, the following are the guidelines for implementation effective March 2021.

1. The policy on independence of learners in answering extends to exams, written tests, performance tasks and asynchronous tasks. Scoring rubrics shall specify learner’s honesty and independence in doing these academic requirements.  As with physical classes, a task that was not done independently merits a zero because it is cheating and shall also merit penalties for serious offense.  Other persons may help by reviewing the learner prior to the scheduled task, or by translating or explaining during the actual test, but never by giving the actual answer.

2. Scheduled Performance Tasks for March and April shall be live / real-time, especially for Spelling, Reading and Math. Careful measures must be taken by the subject teachers to make sure the honesty and integrity are upheld, such as but not limited to the following:
   1. For the duration of the test, each learners should be in a quiet and undisturbed room alone. Only a Grade 1 or 2 learner may have a companion to address issues on technology.  However, the companion must show that he or she is not coaching the learner.
   2. The learner should never set their microphone on mute, and the camera should always be on. Issues on technology should be fixed before the scheduled performance task.
   3. Learners should ALWAYS face their cameras throughout the test, capturing and showing the upper half of their body. It is best that they are using earphones or headset in order to avoid going too near the screen.
   4. The actual time for a live performance task is short. The learner doing the live performance task must never leave the Zoom or physical room during the test time.
   5. If the learner leaves the virtual live performance task due to internet connectivity problems, the answer will not be counted. However, the parent or learner may request for another set of questions on another day after sending a screenshot showing that there was an internet connection problem.
   6. Questions, clarification or request for translation will be done by the learners before the teachers says, “Go!”
3. The following is the new set of scoring rubrics for required asynchronous activities, which form part of performance tasks for each subject in Grade 4 to high school:

Please be guided accordingly.

Mrs. Julie Anne Bajo-Litob

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