Academic Year 2020-2021 brings us to a lot of possibilities. Besides welcoming a new normal in our daily life, the pandemic also created the dawning of virtual educational landscape. As the Department of Education (DepEd) pursues measures to ensure that learning continues, South Mansfield College took on a bigger challenge since March 2020 to create and implement seamless virtual learning for our students through the VOLT (virtual online learning and teaching).
SMC parents support online learning during the ECQ When the government’s Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) on CoVID-19 recommended a mandatory Enhanced Community Quarantine in Luzon, South Mansfield College teachers and learners transitioned from face-to-face onsite teaching and learning to remote virtual classroom. SMC is aware that this shift is going to be challenging and difficult but everyone rose to the occasion and took advantage of technology.
As we welcome 2020, what comes to mind are resolutions, fresh starts and new beginnings. We reaffirm our love to our friends and family members and renew our commitment to our work and other endeavors. We also make purposeful promises to ourselves. For some, they resolve to get in shape, lose weight, improve career paths, and build new relationships.
As your Principal, I would like to usher this New Year with a grateful heart to all the blessings that South Mansfield College received last 2019. Having worked with you for the last 6 months is a wonderful opportunity to develop strong partnership towards the achievement of our goals for the students. With your support, we have been recertified in ISO 9001:2015, sustained our awards in the YMCA National Convention, won in APSAM Academic Race as well as competitions in Robotics, Journalism, and Sports like basketball and taekwondo. The College department obtained 100% passing rate in NCII certification in CSS. Our students’ feat in the recently conducted World Scholar’s Cup in Manila and in Yale University added more feather on our cap and brought prestige to our beloved school and the country. In leadership, we have proven our proficiency through the Bronze Award in Muntinlupa’s 10MOST.
This 2020, we welcome curricular innovation and infrastructure projects. The new Royals Gym will be built with the construction to commence in February. All of these will be rightfully ours with the untiring support from you—our dear parents. Thank you for contributing to another successful term of South Mansfield College. Indeed, our strong home-school collaboration is paying off! A happy and prosperous new year to all!
Being true to the innate quality of excellence with hearts of service, 13 SMC high school students represented the school extraordinarily well and brought home the bacon during the 31st YMCA National Assembly in Baguio City.
Last November 3-6, 2019, our high school students became a team to reckon by having their presence felt by the participants in the national convention for the youth.
The South Mansfield College (SMC) Model United Nations (MUN) delegation returned from the Oxford Model United Nations (OxMUN) Conference in Singapore as one of the 2 delegations coming from the Philippines.
