DepEd Memorandum 010, s. 2025 - 2025 National Heritage Month Celebration

DepEd Memorandum 010, s. 2025

2025 National Heritage Month Celebration

 

 

JAN 28 2025

 

DepEd MEMORANDUM

No. 010, s. 2025

 

2025 NATIONAL HERITAGE MONTH CELEBRATION

 

To:      Undersecretaries

Assistant Secretaries

Bureau and Service Directors

Minister, Basic, Higher, and Technical Education, BARMM

Regional Directors

Schools Division Superintendents

Public and Private Elementary and Secondary School Heads

ALS Community Learning Centers

All Others Concerned

 

1. Presidential Proclamation No. 439, s. 2003 declared May of every year as the National Heritage Month (NHM) and should be celebrated annually. Relative thereto, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) announces the observance of the 2025 National Heritage Month.

 

2. This year's NHM banners the theme, Preserving Legacies, Building Futures: Empowering Communities Through Heritage, which highlights the role of heritage to connect and empower future generations by promoting appreciation of heritage conservation through capacity-building initiatives. The theme also advocates communities, including Indigenous people, to work together in building for the future, reflecting the importance of shared heritage among diverse communities so that collaborations will be developed and generations of conservation advocates will be empowered.

 

3. To promote public awareness in the observance of the event, all regional offices (ROs), schools division offices (SDOs), and schools are encouraged to undertake related activities, such as but not limited to

a. active use, posting, and sharing of the 2025 NHM advocacy materials, including the official 2025 NHM poster, Facebook banners, and 2025 NHM Calendar of Activities in all ROs, SDOs, and schools' websites and social media accounts;

 

b. participation in the online campaign thread about the 2025 NHM celebration by sharing heritage-related content, including photos, videos, news features, and other collaterals released by the NCCA and NHM Facebook Pages (facebook.com/nationalheritagemonthph) using the hashtags #NHM2025 and #NHMEmpoweringCommunitiesThroughHeritage;

 

c. organizing their own NHM activities and participation in heritage-related events such as seminars, webinars, workshops, lectures, and exhibits;

 

d. organizing their own NHM activities, and fill out the 2025 NHM Activity Proposal Form and send the final information to the NHM Secretariat for inclusion in the Calendar of Activities on or before April 1, 2025 (Monday). The NHM 2025 reference materials can be accessed through this link: https://tinyurl.com/yu642zms. 

 

For easier consolidation, the activities may be accomplished along with the submission of the agency's high-resolution logo through this link: https://bit.ly/3UWEdM2; and

 

e. submission of activity implementation reports with high-quality photos to nhmsecretariat@gmail.com in a Word document file with the following details for inclusion in the NHM 2025 Souvenir Program on or before June 13, 2025 (Friday):

 

• Name of Institution              • Venue of Activity

• Date of Activity                                • Brief Description of the Activity

 

4. Participation of learners and teachers from public and private schools shall be purely voluntary and shall not hamper instructional time in compliance with the provisions of DepEd Order (DO) No. 009, s. 2024 titled Implementing Guidelines on the School Calendar and Activities for the School Year 2024-2025, and DO 9, s. 2005, titled Instituting Measures to Increase Engaged Time-on-Task and Ensuring Compliance Therewith.

 

5. For more information, please coordinate with the following:

 

Ms. Renee C. Talavera

NCCA Program Management Division

Telephone Numbers: (02) 8527-2192 and 8527-2210, local 524 or 541

Mobile Phone Number: 0943-505-4939

Email Address: nhmsecretariat@gmail.com

Website: ncca.gov.ph/nationalheritagemonth

Facebook: facebook.com/nationalheritagemonthph

 

Bureau of Learning Delivery-Office of the Director IV

Department of Education-Central Office

4th Floor, Bonifacio Building, Department of Education-Central Office

DepEd Complex, Meralco Avenue, Pasig City

Email Address: bld.od@deped.gov.ph

Telephone Numbers: (02) 8636-6540 and 8637-4347

 

6. Immediate dissemination of this Memorandum is desired.

 

By Authority of the Secretary:

 

 

(SGD) GINA O. GONONG

Undersecretary

 

References:

DepEd Order (Nos. 009, s. 2024 and 9, s. 2005)

DepEd Memorandum No. 022, s. 2024

 

To be indicated in the Perpetual Index

under the following subjects:

 

BASIC EDUCATION

BUREAUS AND OFFICES

CELEBRATION AND FESTIVALS

CULTURE AND ARTS

LEARNERS

SCHOOLS

TEACHERS

 

A full copy of DepEd Memorandum No. 010, s. 2025 below: