Jawili Integrated School Celebrates 14th National Dental Health Month

“Give your smile to everyone but give your heart to only one.” This saying is popular among the high school students so as part of Jawili Integrated School’s celebration of the 14^th National Dental Health Month, JIS teachers, especially the Nutrition and Health Coordinators – Mrs. Jean T. Daroy, Teacher III (Elementary) and Mrs. Vemalyn T. Felisario, Teacher I (Secondary), and MAPEH teachers facilitated activities that will help the learners make their smiles worthy of sharing. These activities also help the learners understand why taking good care of their dental health is a great investment and how they will reap its fruits when they get older. This is to emphasize the theme of the celebration which is, “Ngiping Inaruga mula Pagkabata, Malusog na Ngiti baon sa Pagtanda”.

Dental Health Care was embedded in different lessons in MAPEH, specifically in Health, in English and Filipino subjects as topic in writing activities and presentations, and in TLE subjects through PowerPoint Presentation Making activities.

A Poster-Making Contest was also held on February 21, 2018 in two categories – one for elementary pupils and another for secondary students. The certificates of recognition for the winners were awarded right after the flag ceremony the next day.

Jawili Integrated School continues to integrate dental health care in different subjects to raise awareness and encourage the learners to practice it and share what they have learned in school to other stakeholders.

Awarding of Certificates of Recognition for the contest winners after the Flag Ceremony on February 22, 2018 with Ms. Lina D. Tumbagahan, OIC, and Nutrition and Health Coordinators – Mrs. Jean T. Daroy (Elementary), and Mrs. Vemalyn T. Felisario (Secondary)

Winning Posters

The Limitation of Human Brain by Aldea Rose B. Tunod

We live in a vibrant and complex world. Every time we gather information that catches our attention, we rely on our senses – sight, taste, smell, and touch that tell us what’s happening around us.

 What our senses are capable of is incredible because according to research, our eyes can receive 1MB of information every second that is equivalent to reading an entire encyclopaedia every minute. We can hear a person whispering from 10 meters. In less than a second, one whiff takes us back to a memory from childhood. Our skin contains four million receptors that give us vital information about temperature, pressure, texture, and pain.

Our senses give us so much information that our brain has developed ways to respond effectively. It particularly focuses on things that could harm us, information about things that are important to us, things that could give us pleasure and reward, or things that are interesting and new but sometimes, the information that our senses are gathering seem confusing or incomplete. That’s why our brain draws our memories, past experiences, and current feelings to guess and fill in the blanks. Most of the time, these guesses are helpful to us but sometimes mess them up. We do not just get some information wrong but the sheer amount of information we receive every second we can only do about 4 bits at one time because our brain is prone to information overload and misses some important pieces of data.

Everything has its limitation, even our brain so we must explore ourselves to know its capacity.