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Hi I would like to ask to the following 1. School Building Backlogs and Site 2. Number of students per region 3. Updated School Building Sites 4. Future School Building Projects

January 20, 2021 Public Assistance Action Center FOI Receiving Office Good day! I am an architecture student from Mapua University and currently taking architectural thesis. I would like to request for your assistance for my data gathering regarding my thesis, the "A proposed Community School: Application of Non-Conventional Acoustic Techniques in School Design. The aim of the proposal is to provide a better learning environment for students and teachers wherein they will experience comfort, improved attitude, and their academic performance is the key objective. The whole project proposal will be equipped with different acoustical and lighting techniques that can help to assure its objective. This data gathering would help me in providing architectural solution in my proposed educational center. I would like to request for data regarding (1) DEPED School Building Backlogs and Site, (2) Number of students per region, (3) Updated School Building Sites, and (4) Future School Building Projects. All data gathered and obtained are solely for academic research purposes on my thesis paper and will be handle with high confidentiality. Any assistance you can extend in this regard will be greatly appreciate. Thank you for your kind consideration. Your time and cooperation will be much appreciated. Sincerely, Dan Krystoffer N. Ramboanga Contact No. 09498696202 Email: [email protected]

January 29, 2021 Abstract The school environment is one of the pillars of children’s life, students spend around 6 hours a day and over 1000 hours a year in school on average. They interact and learn with the physical conditions of their schools. However, in previous studies of educational theory and spaces, the quality of the school environment is rarely mentioned, and often schools are not considering the children’s need (Ghaziani, 2008). The learning environment affects children’s health, work, leisure, and emotions. Research shows that a poor connection between student and the learning environment may lead to poor performance and may carry some psychological or physiological cost, even if the students does perform well (Maxwell, 2000) and, as (Earthman, 1997) has argued, children who feel disoriented, uncomfortable or bored in school are certain to be more challenged in their ability to learn and pursue their potential. All children are equal and have equal rights, and every child has the right to good education. These are the words from the CRC, Unicef Convention on the rights of the Child (Unicef, 2014). Every child should get the opportunity to go to an educational school with a high education level. This result has proven past research findings on the importance of the learning environment on individual learning and performance. It shows that during learning tasks a substandard classroom or learning environment can have a negative effect on student’s learning, mood, attitude or and performance. In the studied schools shows the importance of natural light in the learning environment, it gives benefits to students, especially in learning (1C, 2020). Most of the classroom has good access to daylight and can illuminate half of the room. To have a better learning environment of the school by providing lighting and acoustical comfort, this considers the factors such as use of better materials and proper planning. The most cost-effective way to introduce better learning environment for school design is during the design process. Most of the schools have already been constructed with little or no concern for better lighting and acoustics. Despite decades of scientific research into the effects of noise and lighting on learning environment, they continue to ignore it. These problems can be solved by school designs that isolate the learning environments against noise from adjacent spaces and outdoors. Classroom acoustics can be achieved by considering the sources-external and internal-of noise, learning needs and children’s experiences.

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