The Newsletter Club at Holy Family Parochial School in Quezon City aims to publish the school newspaper, Bona Fides. The club recruits new members and provides training to develop their writing, reporting, and media skills. Regular meetings and workshops help members write articles to inform the school community and promote Christian values. The club is led by a moderator and editors and has objectives of strengthening community and encouraging critical thinking among members.

1. Holy Family Parochial School
Madre Silva corner Lilac Street, Roxas District, Quezon City
CLUB ACTION PLAN 2014-2015
Area: Newsletter Club
Rationale
The Newsletter Club is an organization in the Holy Family Parochial School (HFPS) in charge of the publication of Bona Fides, the official school
paper. Through writing, each member of this club is given the opportunity to express their opinions within a frame of freedom and responsibility,
which shows their creative and education skills through writing.
The function of this organization would serve as a bonding agent that will hold a school community together as family by their awareness of the
truth and facts of all the activities and functions of the school and to accurately report all these to the whole school community through weekly
updates and a year-end publication of the paper. The students could acquire the skills needed to develop their full potential to analyze, synthesize
and evaluate issues, events and ideas that would eventually widen their perspective and awareness of the role and workings of mass media in a
changing world and would prepare them to face far more challenging experiences. Inspired by the school’s vision to put Christ at its center, to be
others’ oriented and to treat each other with dignity and justice, Bona Fides is a potential avenue for them to become responsible in giving
relevant information, making rational decisions, and serving as effective leaders to a democratic nation.
Objectives
The Newsletter club aims:
Family, Faith & Fidelity
1. to develop among the members of the HFPS Community a greater sense of harmony by:
a. informing them of events and activities involving the school and encouraging greater participation from among the school’s faculty,
students and non-teaching personnel in these activities;
b. making them aware of issues and problems affecting the school and encouraging the expression of individual news relative to these;
and
c. promoting genuine Christian values and teaching which the HFPS School as a Catholic school upholds, and strives to impart these to
its faculty, students and non-teaching personnel.
2. to promote the development and growth of each member as means of strengthening ethical values, encouraging critical and creative
thinking, and developing moral character and personal discipline of the Filipino youth;
Fortitude
3. to make the members of the HFPS School community more aware of their respective roles in Philippine Society and in the world by
helping them formulate informed perspectives of local, national and global issues and problems; and

2. 4. to search for truth; to develop critical analysis, thinking, writing and speaking abilities; and to enhance free, responsible and effective
expression of ideas in order to uphold and protect the freedom of the press even at the school level. All the contents of the school press
should adhere to the school rules and laws.
LIST OF ACTIVITIES
School Year 2014-2015
ACTIVITIES SPECIFIC APPROACH TIME LINE TRACKING METHOD
PERSON INCHARGE
Recruitment of new
members
 The newsletter club will be able to
accumulate new members through
classroom campaigns.
 Membership forms will be distributed
to the students.
June-July
2014
-Membership forms
-Official list of members
Miss Reños
(Club Moderator)
Giving of positions
and individual tasks
to the members
 The club moderator will be able to
assign specific task to each member of
the club based on their area of
expertise.
July 2014 -Letter to parents
-Minutes of the Meeting
-Attendance
Club Moderator
Regular meetings
 In order for the paper to continue with
a regular production schedule, stories
for upcoming meetings should be
constantly generated though a regular
meeting at least once a week.
July 2014
–
March 2015
-Minutes of the Meeting
-Attendance
Club Moderator
Awareness and
observational tasks
 The reporters will be able to observe
every little thing around them and to
gather facts within the school premise.
 They will then be asked to write their
observations.
July 2014
–
March 2015
-Observation sheets Club Members
Writing activities
(Workshop)
 The writers will be able to write/create
stories/articles out of their
observations.
July 2014
–
March 2015
-Observation outputs
-Attendance
Club Managing Editor
Interviewing
significant
personalities in
 The reporters will be able to gather
more facts and more accurate
information from reliable people
July 2014
–
March 2015
-Interview sheets
-Interviewees’ Profile
Club Members

3. campus
Participating in the
production and
distribution of school
paper.
 All the club members will be able to
participate in the preparation for the
production and distribution of the
school paper.
July 2014
–
March 2015
-Attendance Club Members
Evaluating the
publications/papers
 The supervisory editors, as well as the
managing editors, will be able to
evaluate the written articles
July 2014
–
March 2015
-Evaluation sheets Managing Editor
Moderator
NEWSLETTER STAFF
School Year 2014-2015
 A Managing Editor who oversees the entire production
 Supervisory Editors for each section such as news, sports, and features
 Writers for news, sports, and features articles
 Supporting reporters and photographers for each of the section editors
 Production staffers such as layout artists who are able to do the necessary typing and paste-up to create the
final printed version
Prepared by: Noted by:
Ma. Corazon T. Reños _Amelia C. Sunga _____
Club Moderator Activity and Program Coordinator
Recommending Approval: Approved by:
Mrs. Ciel Katherina M. Acacio Fr. Raymond Joseph L. Arre .
Principal Director

4. Holy Family Parochial School
NEWSLETTER CLUB
ACTION PLAN 2014-2015
KRA: ADMINISTRATION AND LEADERSHIP
Goal: (ED3/8PPA6) Monitor and enhance the communication system for the dissemination of important information
OBJECTIVES TRACKING
PERIOD
ACTIVITIES TIME LINE BY WHOM PROPOSED BUDGET
AMOUNT PURPOSE
A. Accumulate ten
(10) new active
members with
potential skills in
reporting, news
writing,
photography,
copy editing, page
layout and design.
B. Provide an annual
seminar-workshop
to the members of
the club gain a
fuller
understanding
and to enrich their
skills and
potentials on the
strategies in
writing school
- Application form
- Sample work of
the applicants
- Official list of
members
- Membership Fee
- Letter to Parents
- Invitation
- Attendance
- Evaluation Form
- Certificate of
Participation
- Documentation
- Minutes of the
meeting
- Organize a committee
for the Classroom
campaign (during
English classes)
- Distribute application
forms
- Follow-up meetings
- Initiate meetings prior
to the actual
seminar/trainings
- Invite resource speakers
- Conduct the actual
seminar workshop
- Evaluate the seminar
June 2014
July 2014
-Ms. Ma. Corazon
T. Reños
(Club Moderator)
-Former club
members
Ms. Ma. Corazon T.
Reños
(Club Moderator)
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5. newspaper.
C. Provide series of
supplemental
activities (mini-
workshop) to the
members of the
club to help them
develop their
critical thinking,
writing abilities;
and to enhance
their freedom of
responsible and
effective
expression of ideas
with 80 %
attendance and a
satisfactory
rating.
- Letter to Parents
- Attendance
- Documentation
- Students’ output
- Prepare an accessible
venue for the mini-
workshop.
- Assign a committee to
be accountable for the
preparation of the
needed materials such
as the module,
handouts, writing
paraphernalia and other
necessary resources.
- Create a program
schedule for the
intended activity.
- Conduct the mini-
workshop at least an
hour every week.
- Evaluate the students’
output.
July
to
August
2014
Ms. Ma. Corazon T.
Reños
(Club Moderator)

7. Holy Family Parochial School
Madre Silva corner Lilac Street, Roxas District, Quezon City
Bona Fides
Newsletter Application
Full Name: _______________________________________ Grade/Year: __________________________
Club Moderator: __________________________________ Adviser _____________________________
I am applying for…
____ Editor (9th
Grade & 4th
Year ONLY. Must be familiar with Microsoft Word, excellent at
grammar and have good computer skills. You will basically be in charge of the layout of the
newspaper and putting everything together.)
____ Reporter/Writer (Writes feature stories about events going on at HFPS including sports,
activities, clubs, etc. You must be a strong writer and enjoy typing.)
____ Reviewer (Writes reviews of books, music, video games and/or movies; I need opinionated
people who can use creative language and humor.)
____ Photographer (Takes digital photos of school events and puts them on the computer).
____ Comic/Artist (Draws funny comics that are school-appropriate).
Each applicant must complete ONE the following as a sample of your work:
 Editors/Reporters/Writers: Submit a sample of your work. Write a sample newspaper article about a
real HFPS event or a made-up one. Be sure to include a headline, byline (telling who is writing the
article), and a catchy first sentence. Make your article free of major spelling and grammatical errors.
This can be hand-written or typed and should be stapled to this application form. Look at real
newspaper articles for inspiration.
 Reviewers: Write an example review of a book, CD, video game, or a movie. Tell me your opinions
about it—why you liked it or didn’t like it. Make your review opinionated and interesting!
 Comic/Artists: Draw a sample comic and sign it so that I know it is original work (NO tracing allowed).
Staple it to this application.
 Photographers: Take a digital picture. Print it out or e-mail it to Ms. Reños (mcrenos29@gmail.com)
and include a one or two sentence explanation of what the event is that you took a picture of.
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Student Signature: ________________________________ Date: _____________
Parent Signature: _________________________________ Date: _____________
Teacher Recommendation: (Please have one of your classroom teachers from this year or last year sign below)

8. I, ______________________________________ would recommend the student above as a newspaper staffer.