Malinao School for Philippine Craftsmen
MALINAO SCHOOL FOR PHILIPPINE CRAFTSMEN
I. BACKGROUND INFORMATION
MUNICIPALITY/CITY: MALINAO
PROVINCE: AKLAN
LOCATION/ADDRESS: MALINAO, AKLAN
(Logo of the institution with description of the symbols and meanings)
Gear – represents progress, work and innovation.
Circle – signifies unity, wholeness and infinity towards achieving quality education.
Laurel Leaves – stands for knowledge and learning.
Torch – epitomizes the eternal flame that is ignited in each child and tended by the teachers to embark a new journey each day to new horizons.
Scroll – symbolizes wisdom and knowledge shared to everyone.
Drawing instruments, Computer, Lampshades, Plow symbolize - as vehicle geared towards the acquisition knowledge.
Blue – symbolizes serenity, stability and inspiration.
Green – signifies growth, abundance and life.
1975 – the year the institution was founded
TYPE OF CULTURAL INSTITUTION: (Indicate if it is a library, museum, formal education, alternative learning system, gallery and/or others)Formal
Institution: Public Secondary High School
II. NARRATIVE DESCRIPTION
(Include the mandate, history, officials, contact details and other pertinent data)
Way back when the ground was then a forest with hills and olden dialect, the school was drawn from the lofty ideals and aspirations of Malinaonons. The dream was nearly realized.
The Malinao School for Philippine Craftsmen (MSPC) is one of the 6 Technical Vocational Schools in the Province of Aklan and one among the 3 home industries schools in the whole region. It was created by virtue of Republic Act 4317 authored by the late Congressman Godofredo P. Ramos. It was enacted and approved by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress on June 19, 1965 with the following objectives: (1) to promote and develop home industries by offering complete secondary home industries curriculum; and (2) to offer non-formal and short-term courses to out-of-school youths and adults.
MSPC is geographically located in the hillside of Barangay Biga-a, in the significant landmark of Malinao popularly known as Dagongdongan. However, it is interesting to note that in Republic Act 4317 which created this school, it did not mention of a specific address. Republic Act 4317 merely states: An Act Establishing a School for Philippine Craftsmen in Malinao, Aklan and Authorizing the Appropriation of Funds Therefore. Likewise, in all succeeding General Appropriation Acts which provide funds for the school's maintenance and operation, MSPC has again no specific address, it is only Malinao School for Philippine Craftsmen, Malinao, Aklan.
However, it was only on May 5, 1975 that the school formally started its operations through the joint efforts of Mr. Conrado de los Reyes, the Chief of the Home Industries Division of the Bureau of Public Schools and the Municipality of Malinao, under the leadership of then Mayor Nilo I. Ituriaga.
When the school officially opened in School Year 1975-1976, it had an initial enrolment of 328 students for the first- and second-year levels, with a corresponding initial appropriation of merely Php 50,000 out of the Php 300,000 specified in Republic Act 4317. To man the school's operations, MSPC had 18 pioneering teachers and employees under the leadership of Mr. Abelardo C Bulaclac, Supervisor-in-Charge. To start up, the school held office at the Municipal Hall while classes were held in vacant stalls of the public market and in some private homes. However, in August 1975, classes were transferred to the present school site after the newly constructed temporary building was ready for occupancy. The school's location is the former site of the unused Anti-Tuberculosis Pavilion, the ownership of the site and building was transferred without cost to the school by the Malinao Municipal Government.
MSPC initially occupied an area of 1.3 hectares donated by generous and benevolent Malinaonons namely: (1) Mrs. Estrella Yarra-Regno and Mr. Jose R. Regno -12, 296 sq.m.; (2) Judge Sancho Y. Inserto and Mrs. Lourdes M. Inserto - 1,413 sq.m.; and (3) Mr. Dominador Ilio, Sr. & Mrs. Clotilde Yerro-Ilio together with Mr. Manuel Igtanloc, Sr. & Mrs. Felicitas Laurente-Igtanloc who donated the road right of way leading to the school site
Later, the school site has widened in Calendar Year 1999 when the school was able to purchase additional 912 sq.m. out of its allocation from Land and Improvements Outlay. At present, MSPC's school site has already a total area of 14,621 sq.m.
In school year 1976-1977, the school acquired from the Bureau of Public Works a permanent two-story Academic building and in 1982, four rooms were added to that existing building. In 1984, a permanent two-story shop building was constructed and in 1989, more appropriations for capital outlay paved the way for the construction of the Science and Mathematics Building, the completion of the Home Economics building and the renovation of the Administration building to house the former School Library and the existing Office of the School Principal.
In the past, MSPC was directly under the supervision of the Regional Office hence, all communications, reports, budget proposals and even appointments of school personnel were directly submitted to DepEd, DBM and CSC Regional Offices in Iloilo City for appropriate action and/or approval.
In school year 1985-1986, it offered the Post-Secondary Department under the supervision of the TESDA. Two-year trade-technical courses were offered such as Technical Drafting, Food Technology, Garment Trades, Automotive Technology and Civil Technology.
When the new millennium ushered in, MSPC's curriculum was slowly transformed from the Home Industries curriculum to the General Secondary Curriculum. And finally, on August 2003, MSPC was placed under the direct supervision of the Division Superintendent of Aklan and later on, under the Malinao District Office.
More buildings were constructed with MSPC's transformation. The first phase of the MSPC covered court and cultural stage was funded out of donations and solicitations. Later on, the second phase was made possible thru the funds coming from the Aklan Provincial Government. More building infrastructures followed in the succeeding years. Like the construction of the Cookery building,
