mission, vision, and core mandate
To protect and promote the right of every Filipino to quality, equitable,
culture-based, and complete basic education where:
Students learn in a child-friendly, gender-sensitive, safe, and
motivating environment
Teachers facilitate learning and constantly nurture every learner
Administrators and staff, as stewards of the institution, ensure an
enabling and supportive environment for effective learning to happen
Family, community, and other stakeholders are actively engaged and share
responsibility for developing life-long learners
We dream of Filipinos
who passionately love their country
and whose values and competencies
enable them to realize their full potential
and contribute meaningfully to building the nation.
As a learner-centered public institution,
the Department of Education
continuously improves itself
to better serve its stakeholders.
Maka-Diyos
Maka-tao
Makakalikasan
The Department of Education was established through the Education Decree of 1863 as the Superior Commission of Primary Instruction under a Chairman. The Education agency underwent many reorganization efforts in the 20th century in order to better define its purpose vis a vis the changing administrations and charters. The present day Department of Education was eventually mandated through Republic Act 9155, otherwise known as the Governance of Basic Education act of 2001 which establishes the mandate of this agency.
The Department of Education (DepEd) formulates, implements, and coordinates policies, plans, programs and projects in the areas of formal and non-formal basic education. It supervises all elementary and secondary education institutions, including alternative learning systems, both public and private; and provides for the establishment and maintenance of a complete, adequate, and integrated system of basic education relevant to the goals of national development.
The SDO Caloocan, true to its mandate as a learner-centered institution, promoting quality, accessible, relevant, and liberating education for all, commits to:
S erve with excellence through productivity and good governance;
D evelop the full potentials of learners through contextualized curriculum implementation:
O perationalize the quality management system:
C ontinually improve services and processes towards customer
A dhere to regulatory and statutory requirements; and
L ive up to professional and ethical standards.
Para sa bata. Para sa bayan. Caloocan ang Number 1!
THE SDO SEAL
mission
To protect and promote the right of every Filipino to quality, equitable,
culture-based, and complete basic education where:
Students learn in a child-friendly, gender-sensitive, safe, and
motivating environment
Teachers facilitate learning and constantly nurture every learner
Administrators and staff, as stewards of the institution, ensure an
enabling and supportive environment for effective learning to happen
Family, community, and other stakeholders are actively engaged
and share responsibility for developing life-long learners
vision
We dream of Filipinos
who passionately love their country
and whose values and competencies
enable them to realize their full potential
and contribute meaningfully to building the nation.
As a learner-centered public institution,
the Department of Education
continuously improves itself
to better serve its stakeholders.
core values
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Maka-Diyos
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Makatao
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Makakalikasan
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Makabansa
our mandate
The Department of Education was established through the Education Decree of 1863 as the Superior Commission of Primary Instruction under a Chairman. The Education agency underwent many reorganization efforts in the 20th century in order to better define its purpose vis a vis the changing administrations and charters. The present day Department of Education was eventually mandated through Republic Act 9155, otherwise known as the Governance of Basic Education act of 2001 which establishes the mandate of this agency.
The Department of Education (DepEd) formulates, implements, and coordinates policies, plans, programs and projects in the areas of formal and non-formal basic education. It supervises all elementary and secondary education institutions, including alternative learning systems, both public and private; and provides for the establishment and maintenance of a complete, adequate, and integrated system of basic education relevant to the goals of national development.
Quality Policy
The SDO Caloocan, true to its mandate as a learner-centered institution, promoting quality, accessible, relevant, and liberating education for all, commits to:
S erve with excellence through productivity and good governance;
D evelop the full potentials of learners through contextualized curriculum implementation:
O perationalize the quality management system:
C ontinually improve services and processes towards customer
A dhere to regulatory and statutory requirements; and
L ive up to professional and ethical standards.
Para sa bata. Para sa bayan. Caloocan ang Number 1!
Bagong Silang used to be a part of 800 hectares Tala Estate in Rizal province. It is bounded at the North by Francis State which is a part of Bulacan province. Some residents from Tala Leprosarium or Eulogio Rodriguez Rehabilitation Center used to fly in the area for bird hunting like pugo because this was a vast talahib grassland and to fish on the river bounding the place to Bulacan where big fat carps, shrimps, and other fresh water fishes were plentiful. Farmers from nearby San Jose Del Monte , Bulacan and Meycauyan filled on the northern part for rice and other crops. Some farmers moved in and cultivated the area. They are so called Old Tenants of Bagong Silang. They were natives of Bulacan , From Tala on the Eastern Part, a place for the patients of Dr. Jose Rodrigues Memorial Hospital also moved in. They began cultivating the area and had plenty of agricultural plants or crops . Soon friends of old tenants and some patients settled in the place and engaged themselves in farming. This place was developed gradually and grew bigger in terms of population and physical expansion. Different establishments and government buildings sprouted and one of these was the Bagong Silang Elementary School which could hardly absorb all children of relocates.
Bagong Silang Elementary School was formally opened on July 16, 1974 with Mrs. Teresita Maravilla now Mrs. Cipriano and Mrs. Juanita Agosto as its pioneer teachers for the first two primary classes with 47 pupils. The school room was a makeshift or shanty extension of the barangay chairman Mr. Sotero Desaville the pioneer residence of the area. It became a daughter of Tala Elementary School . In 1980, the school had its complete elementary grades and had its first commencement exercises.
The school is seven (7) kilometers away from Novaliches, Quezon City proper. It can be reached by jeepney from Novaliches proper or from SM Fairview. The school site which is located at Phase 1 at the center of Sto. Niño Parish Church, the National Housing Authority (NHA) Office, Bagong Silang Market & the GOZAP Supermarket,.
The principals assigned were Dr. Marcelino P. Lorenzo, 1974-1976, Mrs. Ananiana Leonardo, 1976-1977, Mr. Inosentes Noble, 1978-84, Mrs. Norma Mendoza, 1984, Mrs. Venus S. Batino, Dr. Natividad T. Velasco, Dr. Abegail Ignacio, Mrs. Wilma Coching, (1 week) Mrs. Luisa E. Manangan, 1998-2000, Dr. Victoria F. Martinez, August , 2001- February 09, 2005. Mr. Pedro P. Inocando February 10,2005 – July 23, 2007, Mrs. Wilma M. Coching July 24, 2007 – April 18,2013, Dr. Nimfa R. Narcise April 2013 – January 2021, Dr. Ofelia Y. Naguit January 18 2021 – 2023. At present the School’s Principal is Dr. Angelo L. Eduardo who assumed his office last 2023.
The yearly increase in enrolment brought to the construction of Three-Storey, Six classroom Building sponsored by the Congressman Oscar Malapitan on July 2008 , still the school is implementing an emergency three-shift plan to accommodate the 5971 pupils and the expansion of its daughter schools in its compound namely Sto Niño Elementary School, 1994, Gabriela Silang Elementary School, 2002, Jose P. Rizal Elementary School- June, 2004 . The school, being the mother school known as, Bagong Silang Elementary School.
At present, the school has its 7 ancillary service rooms with 70 classrooms. It has also a Special Education program which was established in 1992 through the joined efforts of the DECS, RBI and PNU consisting of three storey, nine-classroom building. It started with only seven (7) blind pupils , but now there are 208 pupils. (visually impaired, hearing impaired and intellectual disability) with 15 SPED trained teachers, fourteen of them are DepEd permanent teachers appointment.
On June 17, 2006 ,Bagong Silang Elementary School also launched Madrasah Classes every Saturday. It has almost 180 enrolled Muslim Pupils in all grade levels in the present school year .It provide Muslim children equal access to the prescribed basic education curriculum besides learning the Arabic Language and Islamic Values
Today, Bagong Silang Elementary School is one of the six (6) schools in Caloocan North II District, envisioned every learners to be functionally literate and prepare them to become a responsible citizens , under the administration and supervision of its School’s Principal Dr. Angelo L. Eduardo, who assumed in her office last 2023, with 208 strong and energetic teachers, who are working their best to improve and perform in excellence not only in academic and physical aspects but also in other fields of Music, Arts and Sports .
BAGONG SILANG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SCHOOLS DIVISION OFFICE OF CALOOCAN