Childlink Learning Center/High School going silver, recognized as national school of character

 MINERVA BC NEWMAN

CEBU CITY -- Childlink Learning Center and High School is preparing this early to celebrate its 25^th anniversary in 2022 with activities lined up in the incoming school year with the theme, “Linkers: Relevant, Responsive, Resilient” and with a recognition as National School of Character by Character.org as among those schools in the country with 2021 Promising Practice.

Childlink founder and school directress, Maria Theresa Tio said that the school has undertaken efforts to prepare their students for the transition to online learning and in coordination with parents and guardians, continue to create activities for the students to have social interaction with their classmates and teachers.

Tio said that for the two successive school years starting this July 2021 the school will retain the same theme until the school year 2022 to stay relevant and to continue to be responsive and be resilient” despite the changes and challenges brought about by the pandemic.

Despite the change in learning platform, the school continued to hold the usual activities for the just-concluded school year, e.g. the holding of “Heartstrings: A Celebration of Music” featuring the choir performance, ukulele, guitar, and rondalla performances of the students, Tio bared.

She said that ss the school is on its way to celebrate its silver anniversary in July 2022, it recently got a recognition from the Character.org, an organization devoted to fostering character development in our schools and communities.  Character.org cites Childlink as among those with 2021 Promising Practice.

Tio shared what Character.org president Dr. Arthur Schwartz said that the school’s programs and initiatives have demonstrated significant impact and strongly align with the principles that help schools and organizations cultivate a culture of character.

According to Tio that this year’s character development practices and initiatives included peer mentoring, service-learning, and conflict resolution approaches. Many of the Promising Practices also involve parents and the local community.  

"We are extremely proud to recognize the schools and organizations that have developed and implemented a Promising Practice and Character.org and will honor each 2021 Promising Practice recipient (schools and organizations) at its National Forum to be held October 20-22, 2021,” Character.org said.

Childlink has always provided quality education through face to face classes and close supervision by teachers and teachers’ aide before the pandemic and continuous to do so during this crisis, but Tio explained that as a School of Character, the school not only focuses on academic excellence, it also places much emphasis on character development.

Tio went on that the school continuously upgrades its curriculum so students will find learning relevant to real life situations to enable the ‘Linkers’ to apply what they learned in school and put these into action to be responsive to the community.

To accomplish this goal, the school has come up with the Childlink Creed to serve as guide for the Childlink Student who is also called a Linker.  A Linker is caring, honest, industrious, loving dynamic, loyal, interactive, nature-lover and keen.

Linkers will stand out among their peers for being caring and productive individuals, who are loyal to family, school and country, Tio explained.

As part of its upcoming 25th anniversary, Childlink continue its advocacies such as creating awareness on issues about cyberbullying, gender equality and child marriage.

“We will continue the collaboration we have with schools, abroad and within our country. These collaborations are done for the purpose of developing students to become solution-oriented to the issues that are present in each of the communities,” she added.

Childlink is now open for admission for school year 2021-2022. Enrolment period for Elementary Students is from June 17 to June 24 while high school enrolment is between June 9 to June 16, 2021.

For preschool, the enrolment is between June 25 and July 3. Parents can choose either the Online Learning Program or the Home School Program.

Summer classes are also available and start on June 7, 2021. These include Reading Classes for Preschool to Grade 3; English Classes for foreign students for all grade levels and Reinforcement classes on English, Civics, Filipino Math, Mother Tongue and Science. The school also offers one-on-one online reading tutorials. (Photos: Childlink)