Numancia Integrated School

Category:Cultural Institution

I. BACKGROUND INFORMATION

• MUNICIPALITY/CITY: NUMANCIA
• PROVINCE: AKLAN
• LOCATION/ADDRESS: F. KIMPO STREET, POBLACION, NUMANCIA, AKLAN

       Façade of the structure where the cultural institution holds office
Photo credits: Rhoda T. Maglunob, June 21, 2023

                                                

The Symbol and Meaning

• Outside Circle - represents external stakeholders who are capable of conserving, developing, and promoting the school's vision and mission.
• Inner Circle - represents internal stakeholders who are responsible for the implementation of the basic foundations of education and the learning process.
• Torch - symbolizes Christ as the only messenger who proclaimed the sacred truce to humankind- the light and hope of the nation and its people.
• Flame - stands for light, spirit, and knowledge for life which symbolizes protection and the struggle for victory. It signifies the enthusiasm and manifestation of values among the NIS students together with its staff.
• Rays - symbolize authority that signifies the glory and brilliance of eight (8) pioneer secondary teachers in the advent of the conversion to Integrated School.
• Laurel - Leaves symbolize victory, triumph, and fame for progress as well as improvement of the alumni, benefactors, and stakeholders.
• Stars - symbolize excellence and commitment to empower youth to pursue the importance of education.
• Book - symbolizes knowledge as the best source of learning and understanding in the realms of life as a living ground for change and improvement.
• ICT - icon symbolizes the school's vision toward excellence in information and communications technology.

The logo was conceived by Mrs. Amor T. Magdaluyo; former Principal II of NIS. It was interpreted by then-late principal, Medsil C. Carrillo and Rhoda T. Maglunob, former Supreme Student Government SSG) Adviser. The new logo was laid out by Johuanna Rose I. Nejar with her husband, Rommel Nejar, ICT consultant of the school. It was further enhanced by Gabriel A. Ojerio, TLE Drafting Teacher of NIS.

Type of Cultural Institution

Numancia Integrated School is home to the District Office of Numancia which is adjacent to the Municipal Plaza. The school has the following facilities: a library, laboratory rooms, handwashing areas, a school clinic, and an isolation room. In 2021 after the pandemic, a conference room and the covered court were added as functional facilities.

The school offers other learning curricula on the Special Education (SPED) Program for Learning with Disabilities (LWD) and Fast Learners (FL), Grades 1-6. It also offers an Alternative Learning System Curriculum and a Special Program in Sports (SPS) offering individual sports; athletics, arnis, chess, and badminton. It also offers team sports; softball, volleyball, and Sepak Takraw.

School buildings classified as DepEd standard, DepED Modified, Multi-Purpose Workshop, Bagong Lipunan Schools, Alternative Learning System Rooms, and Marcos-Type Buildings under formal education from Kindergarten to Senior High School.

II. NARRATIVE DESCRIPTION

Based on the declaration of the real property records on file, the school site is classified as residential land. The latter was utilized as a school site and is declared in the name of the Bureau of blic School located at Barangay Poblacion, Numancia, Aklan, Philippines under

• 1. ARP no. 05-001-0752 with an area of 29,399 CAD lot no. 267 with the following boundaries:CAD lot no. # 334 and 335 in North, Kimpo Street., SEC 010 in the East, National Road in the South, and CAD Lot no. 268;313 in the West.

• 2. ARP no. 05-001-0753 (2006) with an area of 1, 0360 CAD lot # 268 with the following boundaries: CAD no.# 310 and 313 in the North, creek in the East, National Road in the South,and CAD no # 269 and 270 in the West.

Numancia Integrated School, formerly Numancia Elementary School, was established in 1917 through the efforts and wisdom of very supportive townsfolks: Erineo Cordova, Leoncio Kimpo, and Lucas Gonzales who donated four hectares of land that became the site of the school.

Dr. Reinalda Ibabao-Magdaluyo, an NES alumna, narrated that in 1946-1948 when she was an intermediate pupil, the classrooms were temporary and were built using “butong and pawod” with cemented flooring. According to Dr. Magdaluyo, before the war, NES was a complete intermediate school, now elementary level.

In the 1950s, the L-shaped semi-permanent building along F. Kimpo Street was built. The classrooms were elevated- made of wooden flooring and stairs. They were typically designed with “silong”, or a base underneath the floor.

During the 1960s, Mrs. Florentina Esmeralda Fulgencio, a retired Home Economics Teacher, narrated that there were six rooms made of “butong and pawod”, aligned straight along the national highway including the Kindergarten Room and the Home Economics Building. Along F. Kimpo Street was the entrance gate, the office of the District Supervisor, the Principal’s Office, and a library under the supervision of Consortia Maypa. A semi-permanent building was at the center of the school area with an exit stair at its far right, which Mrs. Fulgencio called it “new building”. In the advent of being a complete elementary school and being the central school; Numancia Elementary School had to cater to graduates from neighboring barangays that were mostly primary schools. The house of Pocas Macavinta was utilized as Mrs. Fulgencio’s Grade 5 Home Economics classroom for a year. It was the nearest house to the school site until now.

Numancia Elementary School was converted into Numancia Integrated School through the initiative of Dr. Reinalda Ibabao-Magdaluyo, when she was the Assistant Regional Director of DepEd Region VI with the concerted efforts of the School Principal I, Mrs. Amor T. Magdaluyo, Mrs. Elma M. Tabing,District Supervisor, and the late Honorable Ernesto I. Templonuevo, then Municipal Mayor.

The Sangguniang Bayan of Numancia and the Parents-Teachers Association (PTA) prepared a resolution favorably endorsed by then-Congressman of the Lone District of Aklan, the late Allen Salas Kimpo, and hen governor, Honorable Florencio Tumbokon Miraflores with the late Arthur S. Juada, chools Division Superintendent of Aklan. The conversion of Numancia Elementary School into Numancia Integrated School is approved on March 19, 2001, by the DECS Secretary, the late Honorable Raul S. Roco per DECS Order No. 91 s. 1999 entitled “Guidelines in the Establishment and Operation of and Operation of an Integrated School.”

The name Numancia Elementary School was officially changed to Numancia Integrated School on June 4, 2001, in a fitting ceremony attended by provincial and municipal officials with the Schools Division Superintendent of Aklan and the Assistant Regional Director of DECS Region VI, Dr. Reinalda I. Magdaluyo.

As per the record, Jose M. Kimpo was the very first principal of the school. From 1922 to 2023, 21 principals have served NIS. From 2021, after the conversion to an Integrated School, the former principals are as follows: Amor T. Magdaluyo, Michael T. Rapiz, Medsil C. Carillo, Jocelyn N, Nillasca,Rheyda T. Tejada, and Gabriel Espirito R. Vega, Jr. In 2023, Mrs. Sally V. Agapito, School Principal 1,leads the whole NIS community.