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And to further respond to the comment, here’s a posting on Baguio Central School, where a number of Class 61 attended for their elementary grades. Among them are, and sorry na lang if I missed out any names, are: Louella M, Diana B, Delma L, Rudy L, Joselito C (where are you anyway), Arthur B, Warlito V. You are so fortunate to have attended a Heritage School!

DepED, Heritage Conservation Society Restore Baguio Central School

Baguio Central School, a public school built in 1923 got a facelift from the Department of Education and the Heritage Conservation Society (HCS). Baguio Central School is the second heritage school renovated under the Heritage Schoolhouse Program of the Department.

The first 25 students of Baguio Central School were in one room of the house of Ibaloi herdsman Mateo Cariño, one of the founding fathers of Baguio. Then the school moved in 1901 to another house where the present public market stands. It expanded into an industrial school where American teachers taught livelihood trades. Then the school moved to a two-classroom building, with a dormitory and a mess- hall kitchen.

The school transferred to its present site with 11 classrooms, constructed of concrete and Baguio pine. The school was destroyed during World War II but was rebuilt in 1949. Although it has been in use since then, it fell victim to poor maintenance until its renovation in 2004. Total rehabilitation was completed in January 2005.

Baguio Central School now boasts of administrative offices, additional classrooms, computer room and a large library.

The first restored heritage school building is the Rizal Elementary School in Bacolod City.

Among the structures identified by DepED as heritage landmark sites that need to be restored soon are Pampanga Central School; Legarda Elementary School; and the Teacher’s Camp, Baguio City.

A master plan has been drafted for the renovation of the Teacher’s Camp which was created by the Bureau of Instruction in 1908. Teacher’s Camp serves as the summer venue for educators to meet, to study and to develop the education workforce. The restoration and adaptive re-use program for Teacher’s Camp is in preparation for its centennial anniversary in 2008.

http://www.deped.gov.ph/e_posts.asp?id=353

To celebrate the DepEd's century of existence, the program will restore different types of school buildings typical of the American colonial era when the public-education program in the Philippines was a high government priority.

Scheduled for completion in October is Baguio Central School.

Heritage studies are not formally offered in most universities. To introduce heritage to the university curriculum, the HCS is coordinating teams of history, engineering and architecture students from Manila and Baguio universities to document the heritage structures in Teachers Camp in Baguio.

The student involvement will lead to the preparation of architectural plans by conservation professionals for most of the Teachers Camp structures.

By restoring classrooms, the DepEd drives home the lesson that patrimony lives and continues to be relevant to our lives. Classes in heritage classrooms provide experiential learning on patrimony with a stronger impact than textbook instruction.

Pride of Place: More glossary terms of Philippine heritage styles

By Augusto Villalon Lifestyle Columnist Philippine Daily Inquirer Aug 10, 2008

MANILA, Philippines - Gabaldon: Named after Isauro Gabaldon, a Philippine congressman, author of 1908 legislation paving for the construction of American colonial-period schoolhouses of reinforced concrete and wood, architecturally designed for the tropics by Yale graduate Willliam Parsons. The schoolhouses, based in standardized designs, were raised above the ground, had high ceilings under steep roofs, kapis shell (Placuna placenta) windows, and wide porticos evident in the outstanding surviving examples Pampanga High School in San Fernando and Baguio Central School.