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Our Lady of Fatima Academy (also referred as OLFA) is a private Roman Catholic school run by the Religious of the Virgin Mary (RVM) in Davao City. It started in 1949 as Immaculate Conception College- Piapi School. The school offers quality Christian education from grade school to high school levels integrating the values of Faith, Excellence and Service, guided by the ideals and example of Venerable Ignacia, Mary and Jesus. ==History== In 1949, the Immaculate Conception College, Davao City, opened a free school in the slums of Piapi in this city through the initiative of the ICC Directress, Mother Maria Alberta Alviar, RVM. The old San Guillermo chapel served as classroom both for the kindergarten and grade one pupils with Mrs. Candida Josue and Miss Pancito as the first teachers. The following year an annex room was put up to accommodate the grade two and grade three classes with Mrs. Leonida Salas as additional teacher. In 1952, a complete primary course was offered. With the increasing enrollment, the need for a bigger space and rooms was seen into by Rev. Father Gaudiose Gagno, PME, the parish priest of Fatima Parish. He acquired a bigger place for both the Church and the School at the corner of Fatima and Aurora Streets. Due to limited space, some classes were held at the Church and nearby houses of a benefactor. Teachers and school needs were provided then by the Immaculate Conception College until such time when OLFA could stand on its own. With the help of ICC, OLFA parents and teachers worked for the improvement of the school. In 1954, the ICC- Piapi School was formally Changed to Our Lady of Fatima Academy. Four years later the grade school was granted the government recognition. A new building was constructed in 1960 to accommodate the increase in enrollment. The complete secondary course was recognized in 1962. Enrollment continued to increase and so a new building was constructed in 1987; blessed and occupied in 1989. The wooden dilapidated building was knocked down for another construction of a concrete grade school building, blessed and made ready in 1994. In 1998, OLFA has produced one Most Outstanding Graduate in Davao City besting fifty- one other Valedictorians in the city and suburbs. On December 20, 1998, the school joined the start of a year -long Golden Jubilee of the Year of God the Father celebration and on January 1999, OLFA also commemorated its Golden Jubilee of Foundation. Enrollment continued to increase so on March 27, 2002, the laying of the cornerstone of a four-storey building took place. The actual construction started on April 2 of the same year. The improvement continued with the renovation of offices. The year also marked the participation of OLFA in the Educational Service Contracting (ESC)scheme of the government. In 2005, the RVM community headed by S. Ma. Lydia C. Daga, RVM, initiated the purchase of a 234 square meter lot fronting Fatima Church for the construction of a four-storey building to accommodate the continuing increase of enrollees every year. the groundbreaking was done on March 20, 2006. The building was blessed on December 30, 2006 and became the second home of the kindergarten and the intermediate classes since 2007. To continue the improvement of the school facilities needed to provide quality instruction, the administration had the faculty and audio-visual rooms renovated in the summer of 2007. As the buildings became concrete, the need to improve instruction and facilities were priorities hand-in-hand with the building preparations. Improvement of facilities goes on to upgrade services to the school community. Computer lessons were incorporated into the curriculum. And therefore construction of computer laboratories, Speech laboratory and upgraded science laboratory, Home Economics and Industrial Arts rooms were also seen into. Our Lady of Fatima Academy has produced a good number of graduates who are leaders today in their area of involvement, may it be in government, education, health-allied, Church, Private sectors, NGO's and several other areas. OLFA is up into the upgrading of the whole school. It has applied for accreditation with the Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities (PAASCU). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Our Lady of Fatima Academy, Davao City」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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