Schools are expected to help learners understand their rights, responsibilities, and role in maintaining a safe and respectful learning environment.
To assist teachers, class advisers, guidance personnel, Child Protection Committee members, and school heads, we prepared a Free PowerPoint Presentation for Learners’ Orientation on DepEd Order No. 006, s. 2026.
The presentation uses clear, learner-friendly language and engaging visuals to explain the most important school safety and learner-protection topics.
About DepEd Order No. 006, s. 2026
Issued on March 24, 2026, DepEd Order No. 006, s. 2026 is titled “Guidelines on Ensuring a Safe and Motivating Learning Environment.” The issuance provides a framework for strengthening school safety, learner protection, positive discipline, responsible behavior, and appropriate responses to incidents that may affect learners’ rights and well-being.
Instead of presenting learners with lengthy policy provisions, this PowerPoint highlights the rules and responsibilities they need to understand and apply in their daily school life.
What is included in the presentation?
The learners’ orientation presentation discusses the following important topics:
1. Every learner has the right to feel safe
Learners are reminded that everyone deserves to feel safe, respected, protected, included, and ready to learn.
No learner should be subjected to bullying, violence, humiliation, harassment, discrimination, abuse, or unfair treatment.
2. Respect starts with everyone
The presentation encourages learners to:
- Speak kindly
- Listen to others
- Avoid hurtful jokes and comments
- Respect personal boundaries
- Treat classmates fairly
- Help create an inclusive classroom
Learners are reminded that even actions intended as jokes may become harmful when they embarrass, frighten, or hurt another person.
3. Understanding bullying
The presentation explains bullying in language that learners can easily understand.
It introduces the different forms of bullying, including:
- Physical bullying
- Verbal bullying
- Emotional or psychological bullying
- Social bullying
- Gender-based bullying
- Cyberbullying
Bullying may happen inside the classroom, elsewhere on school grounds, during school activities, or through social media, messaging applications, online group chats, and other digital platforms.
4. Cyberbullying and responsible online behavior
Learners are reminded that harmful online behavior can have serious effects.
The presentation discourages learners from:
- Sending threatening or insulting messages
- Posting embarrassing photos or videos
- Sharing private screenshots
- Creating fake accounts
- Spreading rumors online
- Editing images to humiliate someone
- Recording and sharing harmful incidents
- Revealing another person’s private information
Before posting or sharing anything, learners should consider whether the content may hurt, expose, embarrass, or endanger another person.
5. Be an upstander, not a bystander
Learners who witness bullying or another unsafe incident should not:
- Join the harmful behavior
- Laugh at the victim
- Encourage the offender
- Record the incident
- Share the photo or video
- Spread the story online
They are encouraged to become upstanders by safely seeking help from a trusted adult.
A learner does not have to physically intervene or place themselves in danger. Reporting the incident to a teacher, adviser, guidance counselor, school head, parent, or guardian is already an important form of help.
6. How learners can report a concern
The presentation explains that learners may approach:
- Their class adviser
- A subject teacher
- The guidance counselor or guidance designate
- The school head
- A Child Protection Committee member
- A parent or guardian
- Another trusted adult
Schools may also provide confidential reporting boxes or secure digital reporting forms.
Learners are reminded that they should report honestly and provide accurate information.
7. Retaliation is not allowed
No learner should be threatened, embarrassed, punished, or attacked for:
- Reporting a concern
- Helping another learner report
- Providing information
- Serving as a witness
- Participating in an investigation
The presentation emphasizes that learners who ask for help should be protected from further harm.
8. Responsible use of phones and gadgets
The presentation explains that portable electronic devices should not be used during instructional time unless allowed for a valid purpose.
Permitted uses may include:
- Approved classroom activities
- Accessing learning materials
- Emergency communication
- Health or accessibility needs
- Safety-related situations
- Other purposes approved by the teacher or school authority
Learners are also reminded not to use devices to secretly record, photograph, embarrass, bully, or expose another person.
Repeated unauthorized use may result in temporary confiscation, parent notification, parent retrieval, or appropriate disciplinary action under school procedures.
9. Dangerous and prohibited items
Learners are reminded not to bring items that may endanger people or disrupt learning.
These may include:
- Weapons
- Explosives
- Illegal substances
- Cigarettes
- Electronic cigarettes or vapes
- Alcohol
- Gambling materials
- Hazardous chemicals
- Other objects intended to threaten or harm someone
Schools may implement appropriate safety and inspection procedures to prevent prohibited items from entering the campus.
10. Respectful bag inspections
The presentation explains that school inspections are conducted to help protect the school community.
Inspections should be:
- Respectful
- Fair
- Orderly
- Non-discriminatory
- Conducted according to proper procedures
- Protective of learners’ privacy and dignity
The purpose of an inspection is to maintain safety, not to publicly shame or embarrass a learner.
11. Positive discipline
Learners need to understand that school rules have corresponding consequences. However, discipline should help them recognize mistakes, accept responsibility, repair harm, and make better decisions.
The presentation emphasizes that discipline must not involve:
- Corporal punishment
- Physical harm
- Public humiliation
- Degrading treatment
- Abusive language
- Threats
- Other forms of harmful punishment
Positive discipline focuses on correcting behavior while continuing to respect the learner’s dignity.
12. Asking for help
Learners are encouraged to ask for help when they feel:
- Afraid
- Hurt
- Threatened
- Stressed
- Angry
- Confused
- Unsafe
- Unable to handle a problem alone
Schools may provide guidance, counseling, psychosocial support, safety planning, and referrals to appropriate professionals or agencies.
Asking for help is not a sign of weakness. It is a responsible step toward safety and recovery.
Who may use this presentation?
The PowerPoint presentation may be used by:
- Class advisers
- Subject teachers
- Guidance counselors and guidance designates
- School heads
- Child Protection Committee members
- Learner formation coordinators
- Supreme Secondary Learner Government advisers
- Supreme Elementary Learner Government advisers
- School discipline officers
- Other personnel conducting learner orientations
It may be presented during:
- Opening-of-classes orientations
- Homeroom sessions
- Classroom guidance activities
- Child-protection orientations
- Anti-bullying campaigns
- School safety programs
- Digital citizenship lessons
- Learner assemblies
- Parent-and-learner orientations
- National Children’s Month activities
Features of the learners’ orientation presentation
The presentation was designed to be:
- Easy for learners to understand
- Focused on the most important provisions
- Suitable for classroom or school-wide orientation
- Visually engaging
- Organized into short and manageable topics
- Appropriate for an image-based slideshow
- Useful for both face-to-face and virtual presentations
Each slide contains a clear message supported by an educational illustration. The wording was simplified to help learners understand how the policy applies to their behavior, safety, relationships, and use of technology.
Suggested way to conduct the orientation
Teachers and facilitators may use the following approach:
- Present one topic at a time.
- Explain the message using familiar school situations.
- Ask learners for simple examples.
- Remind them where and how to report concerns.
- Avoid asking learners to publicly disclose personal experiences.
- Provide a private reporting option after the orientation.
- End with a shared commitment to safety, respect, responsibility, and kindness.
The facilitator may also pause after important slides to check learners’ understanding.
Download the Free PowerPoint Presentation
Download the Free Learners’ Orientation PowerPoint Presentation on DepEd Order No. 006, s. 2026 using the button below.
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Important reminder for teachers and schools
This presentation provides a simplified, learner-friendly discussion of selected topics related to DepEd Order No. 006, s. 2026.
It is intended as an orientation resource and should not replace the complete official issuance. School heads, teachers, Child Protection Committee members, and personnel handling actual complaints, investigations, disciplinary proceedings, or referrals should consult the complete DepEd Order, including its annexes and prescribed procedures.
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Help build a safe and motivating school
A safe school is not simply a school without physical fights.
It is a school where learners:
- Feel respected and included
- Know their rights and responsibilities
- Are protected from bullying and abuse
- Use technology responsibly
- Know where to ask for help
- Are treated fairly
- Learn without fear
Teachers, parents, school personnel, and learners all have an important role in creating a safe, respectful, inclusive, and motivating place to learn.
Download and use this free presentation to help orient learners in your school.
