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Insights on WALDORF SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL |
Five Pioneer students completed the program and successfully marched on stage as they were individually recognized and acknowledged by the University President, Dr. Hernando B. Perez assisted by the Principal Mrs. Lolita Tegon as the first batch of graduates of the sister school of the University of Batangas Elementary Department. These five students were Rush Giann A. Ginete, Ralph Wilbert G. Tamayo, Bazili Gustav I. Tenorio, Rachel Anne R. de Chavez and Rosha Marie R. Dipasupil.
The graduates were attention-getters not because they donned the traditional white cap and gown over the school uniform but because of the foreign languages used in revealing their ambitions. One did it in Mandarin and the rest used Spanish, Nippongo, French and Bahasa.
As the first graduates of the Preparatory Department of the UB Waldorf School International they were the pride of their parents and the school.
The International School has the permission to open classes for Grades 1 and 2 and eventually apply for the operation of the complete elementary classes. The school has a unique method of teaching the core and advanced fields of study that sets it off from other schools. Each lesson is designed in a way by which the child’s life, intellect, feelings, and physical attributes involved. The subjects are presented in an artistic way to develop the artistic sensibilities and capacities of the child as well as his imagination. The child also learns how to sing, to play musical instruments, to recite poetry and speak clearly the foreign languages.
On the other hand, parents are allowed to participate in class activities as volunteers in performing some activities or doing some projects and familiarity with the curriculum and the performance of their children in school.
At present there are four teachers with five classrooms in the International Schools which is temporarily based at Casa Blanca in Pallocan, Batangas City. By 2010 the school will transfer to the UB Pallocan site complete with new facilities and a building. The teachers meantime will finish their Master of Arts in Steiner Education at St. Scholastica’s College, as a requirement for their continuing education program. |
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