Ecoteneo ADDU Preschool and Grade School

Something to reflect on.

Season of creation 2024

Dear friends of Laudato Youth! Happy World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation!

“Hope and Act with Creation” is the theme of the Day. This theme is drawn from Saint Paul’s Letter to the Romans (8:19-25), where the Apostle explains what it means for us to live according to the Spirit and focuses on the sure hope of salvation that is born of faith, namely, newness of life in Christ.

Let's pray and reflect on our carbon footprint and how we can make a positive impact this season of creation. Let's make a difference together!

Learn more about our season of creation activities https://laudato-youthinitiative.org/

Horticulture for the people | Davao Today I was invited to discuss horticulture, my first love. My interest in plants brought me closer to nature, a foundation on my environmental advocacies.

In the wake of the Maco landslide tragedy, the Provincial Government of Davao de Oro reports numerous casualties, missing individuals, and displaced families seeking refuge. We commend the immediate response and ongoing rescue operations. We must acknowledge that the root cause of such disasters lies in our failure to prioritize environmental conservation over profit. This tragedy underscores the urgent need for sustainable and responsible practices, urging us to rethink our position in large-scale mining and our approach to resource management for the well-being of both our environment and communities.

Fr. Karel S. San Juan, S.J.
University President

Be an Ecotenean. Apply now.

ADMISSIONS | Great news! Admissions for interested Preschool and Grade School pupils for the 2024-2025 school year are now open.

💙Application for Levels:
Applications are now open for Preschool (Playschool, Nursery, and Kindergarten) to grade 5 pupils. For Grade 6 applicants, please send an email to [email protected].

💙Age Requirements for Preschool:
Playschool will be three years old by August 31, 2024
Nursery will be four years old by August 31, 2024
Kindergarten is five years old by September 30, 2024

Application Method:
Apply online through the provided link:

Preschool:
https://bit.ly/ADDUadmission24PSform

Grade School:
https://bit.ly/ADDUadmission24GSform

💙 Admission Process and Requirements: Detailed information about the admission process and requirements can be found at https://newgs.addu.edu.ph/admissions

Campus Tour: To get a feel for the campus, interested individuals can book a campus tour via https://newgs.addu.edu.ph/grade-school-campus-tour-request-form/

Contact Information: For any other concerns, contact (082) 221-2411 for the Promotions and Alumni Affairs Office at local 4140, Wellness and Testing Center at local 4122, or the Registrar's Office at local number 4128.

Brace yourselves for an upcoming school year with thrilling learning adventures! Start Bright! Be a Blue Knight.

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Be an Ecotenean. Apply now.

ADMISSIONS OPEN | Great news! Admissions for interested Preschool and Grade School pupils for the 2024-2025 school year are now open.
💙Application Levels:
Applications are now open for Preschool (Playschool, Nursery, and Kindergarten) to grade 5 pupils. For Grade 6 applicants, please send an email to [email protected].

💙Age Requirements
Playschool will be three years old by August 31, 2024
Nursery will be four years old by August 31, 2024
Kindergarten is five years old by September 30, 2024

Application Method:
Apply online through the provided link:
Preschool:
https://bit.ly/ADDUadmission24PSform
Grade School:
https://bit.ly/ADDUadmission24GSform

💙 Admission Process and Requirements: Detailed information about the admission process and requirements can be found at https://newgs.addu.edu.ph/admissions

Campus Tour: To get a feel for the campus, interested individuals can book a campus tour via https://newgs.addu.edu.ph/grade-school-campus-tour-request-form/

Contact Information: For any other concerns, contact (082) 221-2411 for the Promotions and Alumni Affairs Office at local 4140, Wellness and Testing Center at local 4122, or the Registrar's Office at local number 4128.

Brace yourselves for an upcoming school year with thrilling learning adventures! Start Bright! Be a Blue Knight.

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ECOTENEO UPDATE | The Ateneo de Davao University - Grade School Unit holds Friday Organic Market at the covered walk near the gate 4 of the Matina Campus. Visit us for fresh and chemical free fruits and vegetables.

🍆It's back! 🥬Friday Organic Market is back in its old home @ AdDU Grade School.🥑 Market hours is at 10 am onwards starting tomorrow, 🧅 November 25, 2022..🥒🥕 Please do not forget to bring your EcoBags for a "plastic free" market day. 🍅🍉🍌🧄

INVITATION | Join us in meaningful prayer as we celebrate the Season of Creation for the better future of planet, Earth.

In front of the Gazebo, AdDU Jacinto Campus, today, October 4, 2022, at 3:40 - 4:40 PM.

IN PHOTOS | In celebration of the Season of Creation, the Ecoteneo and Arrupe Office of Social Formation of the Grade School launched a project entitled, "Greening Blue Project." This parent-child tree-growing activity is participated by some AGSCA parent representatives with their children.

These are the objectives of the project:
a. To involve the AdDU Grade School parents and pupils in a tree-growing activity.
b. To raise awareness in our community about the importance of planting and saving trees, express our concern for the environment, and reduce the unfavorable effects of climate change.
c. To experience cooperation and camaraderie with the rest of the community in simple contributions towards the care for creation.
d. To experience shared or renewed commitment to help care for creation.

We encourage all pupils, parents, school personnel, and alumni to participate in our engagement activities. Please feel free to email us at [email protected].

INVITATION | This year’s Season of Creation (1 September – October 4) celebrates the theme:“Listening to the Voice of Creation”. The voices of Mindanao, its watersheds and forests, the IP and local communities are drowned out by the noise of the mining agenda in Mindanao and the rest of the country.

Let the voices of DavOr’s people, watersheds and protected areas be heard!

Panalinga DavOr
Let us listen to the people of Davao Oriental.

Join us on September 27, 2022 at 8:00 AM via Zoom and Facebook Live.

For Zoom
Register here: https://tinyurl.com/ZoomPanalinga

For Facebook Live, please visit this page.

The Ecoteneo Friday Organic Market is back! At the new location in front of the Community Center at Roxas St. Look for the tent with fresh vegetables. For every purchase you make you help the farmers of Marilog. Visit us at our kiosk and get to experience freshness!

Laudato Si!

September 1 is the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. This day marks the beginning of the Season of Creation celebrated by Christians worldwide. The Season closes with the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi on October 4.

Join us in our University Mass this coming Thursday, September 1 at 11:30 AM. You may bring your office/home plant with you so that your green spaces may be blessed alongside the seedlings that will be blessed for our adopted areas and community gardens. We will also be distributing Season of Creation cloth masks.

The theme of this year’s celebration is: “Listen to the Voice of Creation”. The burning bush as symbol, reminds us of our planet on fire:

The forest fires blazing across Europe have razed down vast amounts of land on top of a heatwave, causing deaths to thousands with record temperatures at 45.7 C.

Pakistan is calling for international aid as it was left inundated by a monster monsoon where 3 million people have been displaced (of the 33 million affected) and where bridges, buildings (mostly built on the riverbanks), and crops have not been spared.

China has been experiencing a record-breaking 70 days of heatwaves and droughts affecting the stretch of the Yangtze river.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/china-drought-heatwave-yangtze-river-chongqing-photo-essay-2902056
In Mindanao, the climate crisis is exacerbated by the loss of forest cover in tens and thousands of hectares. Local communities are losing their homes to big mining companies who buy them out with promises. The IP community is divided, and so-called designated IP representatives have been pitted against the church in the long-drawn Tampakan campaign. In Barangay Ned, families are reportedly being bought out of their homes for a measly PhP 30,000.00 so that a giant conglomerate can mine their coal. In critical watershed areas and protected watershed and forest reserves, extractive ore and coal mining ensure a water crisis of epic proportions in the years to come.

Much of what is happening in Mindanao is happening in Davao in terms of disaster and “development” priorities that do more harm than good to the environment and public health and safety. Our rivers are threatened by unbridled quarrying, and our air quality and food safety are compromised by the WTE incineration project being pushed. Also, our city’s disaster resilience and food security are weakened by the reclassification of productive agricultural lands that give way to housing projects, even in flood mitigation areas.

Amidst the climate emergency, the “burning bush” reminds us of the holy fire that appeared before Moses. We are called by this holy fire to listen to the voices of Creation and community: the voices of suffering and the voice of collective wisdom and infinite gratitude, calling us to live within the limits of Our Common Home.

Let us listen and listen deep.

To the Voice of the Air: Let us enjoy our city parks on a fossil fuel-free ride in a Season of Creation Bike Ride as Ecoteneo Knightriders biking community of Ateneo (September 3. Matina Parking Building. Assembly time: 5:30 AM. Free registration: Sign-up sheets per campus are available through the Ecoteneo office.)

The Voice of our oceans and seas: Let us learn more about the coral reefs in Samal amidst the Samal Bridge Project through the SHS Flora and Fauna.

The Voice of our Forests (including mangroves): Let us grow our adopted mangroves with the Matina Aplaya Badjao community.

To the Voice of Biodiversity: Join the press conference on a rediscovered pair of Philippine Eagle by the Save MMACA Movement with PEF, IDIS, and UP Mindanao.
(1st week of September)

To the Voice of our Animal Friends: A Webinar and Saturday outreach with Bantay Hayop Davao, who has much to teach us about animal rescue and responsible pet ownership. https://www.facebook.com/bantayhayopdavao/
(every SoC Saturday)

The Voice of the Soil and organic farmers: Relaunch of the Friday Organic Market with the KNBL women farmers’ group of Davao who tirelessly push for eco-agriculture. (Sept-Oct: Garden of Eve)

To the Voice of Climate Action advocates in a Discovery Camp webinar: “Embracing Social Justice and Climate Action” with selected participants as organized by AIM and Arrupe Office of Social Formation
(Sept 14 :3 PM via Zoom)

The Voice of Water and our local and indigenous Communities: Pakighinabi on Davao Oriental’s protected areas and watershed vis-à-vis the mining projects with the Diocese of Mati and partner communities. Co-organized with the Office of the University President and UCEAC.
(Sept 27/28: Pakighinabi room and FB livestream)

Let us listen to the voice of our community (and partners) as we close the season with an ecumenical activity to be organized by the Grade School.
(October 4: Botanical Garden)

Keep posted for announcements and keep us posted on your Season of Creation initiatives so that we can include them in our Season of Creation calendar/invitations.

Send us a PM on https://www.facebook.com/eco.teneo.1 , or drop us an email at [email protected], or swing by our Jacinto office (5/F Martin Hall) anytime. 

May the God of Creation bless each of you as we are called to be a blessing to all of creation!

LOOK | The Ateneo de Davao University - Preschool & Grade School share vegetables and fruits through Ecoteneo's GS Community Pantry. This week, the Administration Team composed of Grade/ Preschool Level Heads and Asst. Headmaster for Administration sponsors this pantry.

INVITATION | The Ateneo de Davao Grade School Unit opens its campus for Wellness Day Visits. These are scheduled campus visits for our preschool and grade school pupils, and limited face-to-face activities that are non-academic in nature. To join this activity, please register as early as today.

REGISTER HERE: https://bit.ly/WDVregistration

For your information and guidance.

Ecoteneans invite everyone to join in saving and protecting our home, the Earth.

Happy Earth Day!

YEY! The Provincial Development Council passes a resolution to retain the ban on open-pit mining in South Cotabato.




Source: https://www.mindanews.com/top-stories/2022/03/south-cotabato-governor-endorses-retention-of-open-pit-mining-ban/

South Cotabato governor endorses retention of open-pit mining ban KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews / 23 March) – South Cotabato Gov. Reynaldo Tamayo, Jr. has endorsed a resolution for the retention of the 12-year-old ban on open-pit mining in the province. Supporters of…

LOOK | The Ecoteneo, in collaboration with the Ateneo de Davao University Preschool and Grade School, brings you a month-long celebration of the Season of Creation from September 1, 2021 to October 4, 2021. These are some of the activities prepared by the Ecoteneo Preschool and Grade School Team:
A. Live & Let Live for Preschool
B. Community Pan-Tree for Grades 1-6
C. Kapehan Webinar for Faculty & Staff

For more details of each activity, watch this video:

YouTube: https://youtu.be/qArwssGFS34

Please subscribe to our official YouTube channel.

Let us set together for a time of restoration and hope, a jubilee for our Earth, and to discover radically new ways of living with creation.

ENROLL NOW | Check out the easy online enrollment of ADDU Preschool and Grade School for new pupils and old pupils.

Enroll online now at newgs.addu.edu.ph/enroll/

Classes start on July 21, 2021. We are still ready for online learning. Let your child's online learning experience be with us.

Start Bright at the ADDU Preschool and Grade School.

FOR NEW PUPILS:
New Student Enrollment Requirements:
1. With Notice of Acceptance (N.O.A.)
2. Final report card for SY 2020-2021
3. PSA Birth Certificate

Check this link for the procedure:
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For new/transferee pupils, read the details on how to secure the N.O.A.:
newgs.addu.edu.ph/admissions/

FOR OLD PUPILS:
Click this link for the Enrollment Form for Old Pupils: https://bit.ly/ADDU2021ENROLLold

Check this link for the procedure:
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Payment Information: newgs.addu.edu.ph/payment-procedure/

For the schedule of fees and other general inquiries, please send us a message on this page.
Messenger: m.me/addugs
Email: [email protected]
Hotline Numbers:
Landline - 221-2411 local 4127/4128
Mobile:
General Inquiries: 0967-449-3421
Enrollment Concerns:
For Globe: 0906-071-4693
For Smart: 0961-587-6445

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Start Bright at the Ateneo de Davao Preschool and Grade School.

Happy Birthday to me!

I am Ecoteneo! Today is my 10th Birthday!

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The Ateneo de Davao advocacy that responds to the call for Ecological Conversion. Please join us in the AdDU Online Holy Mass at 11:30 A.M. today.

ENROLLMENT IS ONGOING!

We are still ready for online learning!
Let your child's online learning experience be with us.
Start Bright at the ADDU Preschool and Grade School.

Visit: newgs.addu.edu.ph/enroll/

Enrollment and new student admission run until July 2021.
Classes start on July 21, 2021.

The admission application is still open.
Visit: newgs.addu.edu.ph/admissions



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