Talamban Elementary School is located on Borbajo St., Talamban, Cebu City. It is approximately ten kilometers from the heart of the city with a total land area of 11, 989 square meters. The school started way back in the pre-war days in the old ancestral home of a prominent family, the late Manuel Allńo. The main focus of education was reading and writing the “Cartilla” method.

In 1946 the first four building were constructed, including the Gabaldon building which is the front of the school gate facing the highway. The construction of these buildings, which officially started the formation of the Philippine Assembly in 1907, was a strategy of the Americans to rebuild and introduce the formal public education system to the Filipinos.

People in the community who graduated Grade VI during the American regime were hired as teachers for they were academically qualified. The first teachers were the couple Mrs. Benita Tudtud and Mr. Martin Tudtud. Parents sent their children to school with a vision of making them literate and well-rounded people.

The building has not undergone major repair until the Department of Education through the Basic Education Facilities Fund (BEFF) 2018 appropriated Php6, 381, 675.71 for the rehabilitation of the building. This is to comply with the “National Cultural Heritage Act of 2009” which provided the protection and conservation of the national heritage including the Gabaldon Building.

Now, the school has a population of more than four thousand hence employing 120 teachers and headed by a school principal with an assistant principal. With this remarkable increase, it shows that the school is constantly growing, and student excel bot in academics and co-curricular activities.

It is offering special programs such as Special Education (SPED), Alternative Learning System (ALS), Special Science Elementary Classes (SSES).

In order to accomplish success, one needs to have good reading and comprehension skills. Without these skills children will struggle to grow academically as reading is the foundation to all academic subjects.

With the recent Online Oral Reading Verification (ORV) conducted to the Grade 1 Learners of Talamban Elementary School for School Year 2020-2021, it was found out that 6 out of 13 (46%) pupils who can attend virtual classes in Grade I- Green are non-readers in MTB instead of 100 % readers as required by the Department of Education. This alarming data have a big impact to the learners, the teachers and the school.

To address this concern, the school CI Team came up with the CI Project entitled, “Hayag nga Kaugmaon, Basa ang Solusyon”. This project aims to address the reading problem of Grade 1- Green and the rest of Grade 1 non-readers.