NARRATIVE AND PICTORIAL REPORTS ON GULAYAN SA PAARALAN PROGRAM

SY: 2018-2019

Gulayan sa Paaralan Program (GPP) includes teaching of agriculture, natural resources, and land
management through hands on experience and guidance to prepare students for entry level jobs of to
further education to prepare them for advanced agricultural jobs. It is taught in public schools and deals
with such subjects as how plants and animals grow and how soil is farmed and conserved. School gardens
are cultivation areas or school laboratories around or near schools, for production of fruits and vegetables
and may include small scale animal husbandry and fishery, greening flowering and shading. The promotion
of school gardens usually aims towards different objectives, giving pupils knowledge and skills for better
agricultural productivity and sustainable agricultural practices, giving environmental education a
sustainable and practical dimension, change attitudes towards agriculture and rural life, and increase
school attendance school feeding and create income and improving food diversity to combat
micronutrient deficiencies among school children and improve overall food security.
Here, students learned how to plant different kinds of vegetables and how to take care of them.
They are the one who watered and took care of vegetables planted in the school- like petchay, mustard,
eggplants, tomatoes, sili, patola and malunggay.

The production of fruits and vegetables in the school garden and the subsequent preparation of
healthy in close cooperation with the parents within the school premises can address the he health and
nutrition problems in the school. But the greater problem of malnutrition, especially among children is
that it ultimately leads to stunted mental and physical growth, poor comprehension and lower
performance in school. According to the teachers many children come to school with an empty stomach.
Hungry, unhealthy children cannot concentrate on learning.

The vegetables that were being harvested were sold to the community and others were used in
the Free Feeding Program and through this program, our pupils became healthier, attentive and they are
performing better in school.

Students not only learned how to reproduce vegetables but they were encouraged to eat green
and leafy vegetables as well. So, vegetable production through Elementary Agriculture must be given
emphasis.

Prepared by:

JOHN DALE E. EVANGELIO

GPP COORDINATOR