SPED

Special education encompasses educational programs and practices designed for

students- who are handicapped or gifted, with mental, physical or emotional
disabilities and hence require special teaching approaches, equipment or care
within or outside a regular classroom.

Living up to the mission of the Department of Education – “Education for all”,

comes the birth of two new schools providing Special Education – Salapungan
Elementary School (2016-2017) and Gueco Balibago Elementary School this school
year 2018-2019.

Being the first school with Special Education, Angeles City SPED Center having 271
learners as of August 2018, caters education for Autism Spectrum, Hearing
Impairment, Intellectual Disability, Learning Disability, Multiple Disability with
Visual Impairment, Multiple Handicapped, Orthopedically Handicapped, and
Visual Impairmet as wll as Special education for the gifted with 492 learners.

Likewise, from the secondary school Francisco G. Nepomuceno Memorial High

School has services for grades 7-10 who have hearing impairment, intellectual
disability, and visual impairment.

Last school year 2016-2017, Salapungan Elementary School has embraced

learners with Autism Spectrum, Hearing Impairment, Intellectual Disability,
Learning Disability, and Visual Impairment.

And just recently, Gueco Balibago Elementary School opened its doors for
learners with Austism Spectrum, Developmentally Handicapped, Hearing
Impairment, Intellectual Disability, Learning Disability, and Multiple Disability.

In a span of two years, the division, with the leadership Mrs. Leonida K. Quinto,
Public Schools Division Superintendent and Division Special Education
Coordinator, was able to make available such services in these additional schools.
This remarkable initiative of the Division made inclusive education readily
available to more learners with different exceptionalities in Angeles City.
ENGLISH (JOURNALISM) Project: RIGHT (Review Intensively, Go and Hope for
the Top)

The Project: RIGHT (Review Intensively, Go and Hope for the Top) provides
annual rigorous training for campus journalists competing in the Regional School
Press Conference through lecture-discussions, workshops, and simulations. These
series of activities are facilitated by trainers who are bigwigs and experts in their
field to heighten campus writers’ skills and competencies in different categories.
Thus, campus journalists from various schools have brought victory and pride to
the division of Angeles City.

In 2016, SDO Angeles City ranked Third Overall Best Performing Division in English
writing. Honed abilities and undying perseverance paid off as they yielded
winnings in the 2017 RSPC. Campus journalists in a number of individual writing
contests, radio broadcasting, and school paper contest both in Elementary and
High School, in Filipino and English categories secured outstanding ranks in their
respective categories.

With great pride and notable achievement, two of the student-writers in the
individual writing contests for both elementary and high school bagged first place
in the English Editorial Writing. They shall be competing in the National Schools
Press Conference slated in the last week of January, 2019.
MTB MLE KAPAMPANGAN DEPED ANGELES CITY

The Division of Angeles City takes necessary steps and create programs to ignite
and instill the Kapampangan spirit and sustain the language among young
learners. A Facebook page where school heads and kindergarten to grade 3
Kapampangan teachers share, upload and download teaching and learning
resources, a venue to post MTB- MLE related activities, an internet portfolio to
view and partially assess performance, progress of the special program and its
activities, and a spot where announcements, discussions, and updates are posted.