CDSA Field Demonstration - Tribute to St. Anne

CDSA pupils and students showcased their dancing prowess as a tribute to St. Anne, patroness of Taguig. St. Anne will have her feast on June 26, with the popular River Festival as one of the highlights.

CDSA passed FAPE Certification for ESC Program

Colegio de Santa Ana, a Private Catholic School in downtown Taguig, now offers the ESC Program after passing the FAPE Certification Program. This means that incoming First Year students from Public Schools can enjoy a tuition fee subsidy from the government. This is a testament to CDSA's commitment to quality education, competence and loving service to the community.

Meanwhile, CDSA also accepts EVS Grantees. Transferees with EVS grants are welcome to enroll.

Classes start June 8 for ECE, June 9 for Elementary, and June 10 for High School.

About FAPE

The Fund for Assistance to Private Education (FAPE) is an organization commissioned by the Department of Education to manage the Educational Service Contracting (ESC) project whereby students who cannot be accommodated in public schools because of limited facilities and teachers, are given the opportunity to avail of quality education in private schools, with government subsidizing their tuition and miscellaneous fees. Over the past 18 years, ESC has enabled over one million students to get quality secondary education in private schools all over the country. ESC has, likewise, given the government a cost-effective way of fulfilling its constitutional mandate to provide free education up to the secondary level.

For more information on ESC and EVS offerings of CDSA, please call 642-4156 or 643-5204.

CDSA Outreach Program

"The mission of Colegio de Santa Ana is to help all learners to attain integral human formation by...enhancing the spirit of volunteerism and unconditional service for the poor and for the common good." *

True to its mission, Colegio de Santa Ana conducted an outreach program for the less fortunate families within the vicinity of Sta. Ana and neighboring towns.


Students and selected faculty and staff gave away coupons yesterday. Today, those who were given coupons received rice, canned goods and other necessities. CDSA students showed their talents to the delight of our invited families. An approximate of 50 families went home with a smile on their faces.

Student Coordinating Board with Mrs. Criselda Cruz and Sis. Ma. Zenaida Dimalanta, MCST








* CDSA Mission Statement

Fire Drill

March is declared "Fire Prevention Month". Every year, various programs are prepared to promote awareness in fire prevention especially that summer is getting near. The Taguig Fire Bureau and Colegio de Santa Ana demonstrated their preparedness in such an emergency.


Within five minutes, the students have evacuated the buildings. A few seconds later, a siren was heard. Taguig's Fire Bureau reacted quickly and in seconds the fire was extinguished.

Emergency drills such as this one are held annualy by CDSA as part of the Disaster Preparedness Program to prevent or minimize casualties in the event of an emergency. An earthquake drill was done earlier this school year. Kudos to the Taguig Fire Bureau for their quick response.

Ash Wednesday

March 9 is Ash Wednesday. It marks the start of Lent. The CDSA community celebrated a Mass and ashes were imposed on their foreheads.

Ash Wednesday derives its name from the practice of placing ashes on the foreheads of adherents as a sign of mourning and repentance to God. The ashes used are typically gathered after the palms or Palm Crosses from the previous year's Palm Sunday are burned.


Ash Wednesday is a day of repentance and it marks the beginning of Lent. Ashes were used in ancient times, according to the Bible, to express mourning. Dusting oneself with ashes was the penitent's way of expressing sorrow for sins and faults. An ancient example of one expressing one's penitence is found in Job 42:3-6. Job says to God: "I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. The other eye wandereth of its own accord. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes." (vv. 5-6, KJV) The prophet Jeremiah, for example, calls for repentance this way: "O daughter of my people, gird on sackcloth, roll in the ashes" (Jer 6:26).The prophet Daniel pleaded for God this way: "I turned to the Lord God, pleading in earnest prayer, with fasting, sackcloth and ashes" (Daniel 9:3). Just prior to the New Testament period, the rebels fighting for Jewish independence, the Maccabees, prepared for battle using ashes: "That day they fasted and wore sackcloth; they sprinkled ashes on their heads and tore their clothes" (1 Maccabees 3:47; see also 4:39).




Information taken from Wikipedia.