The Laren School

For inquiries regarding admissions, please email [email protected]. Please include information such as: age of child and grade level. We have very limited slots so don't wait too long to indicate your intention to apply. Thank you!

No pandemic could keep the kids from singing and dancing. We recorded our songs and dances for our program entitled: Together Apart. Teacher Hope is alreadly preparing for next schoolyear's songs and music. We hope to sing and dance again on stage...soon. Well, we also hope to see one another in person again...soonest...hopefully.

Hello, we have been receiving a lot of inquiries for admissions here on FB. Please:

1j email your queries to [email protected]. we have an admission process that all parent applicants need to go through which includes: an initial meeting with our head of school, class observation, meeting with the Education Director, child's assessment, reservation (if accepted), on to enrollment.

2) current admission openings are in Casa (3-6 yrs old) and Elementary (for 6-10/11 years old) we do not accept transferees from grade 6 and up.

3) we do not give out tuition information here of FB. Please email your inquiry to [email protected].

Thank you,
The Laren School Team

We were awarded by the World Education Congress 2018 - Education Leadership Award for leadership in educate and teaching.

We are pleased to announce that MMUN has been recognized as an NGO in Special Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

Thanks to ECOSOC we have a greater opportunity to be heard by a global audience and contribute to its agenda.

batch 2017 MMUnited Nations

Today The Laren School signed the Memorandum of Understanding with Saxion University in The Netherlands as a start of collaboration and partnership for research and teacher education and training. The school will be Saxion's practice teaching venue and research for their students. Together with the University of the Philippines and the Ateneo, Laren was chosen for this unique program. Photo shows Ms Amanda Y. Lim (our Head of School), representatives from Ateneo, UP, Saxion as well as the Dutch Ambassador, the Dutch Vice Minister and the members of the Dutch trade mission. Our little little school is involved with very very big endeavours, which we are very proud to be a part of.

No classes today Aug. 10, 2016. stay safe!

super ready for the new school year

schoolyear 2016-2017

ready for the new school year

For Schoolyear 2016- 2017

Parent Coffee and General Parent Orientation: July 13, 2016 at 5:00 p.m.

Break-out orientation (per class with the teachers): July 13, 2016 at 5:30 p.m.

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Looking for Junior Museum Guides at UP Vargas Museum ages 8-12yrs old!

Workshop: Recycled Summer Kids Art Workshop begins April 25 Spark your kids’ imagination and creativity with this arts and crafts workshop that will teach your little ones how to recycle the fun way! Through six morning sessions with La Pomme and Heartmade, kids will explore a wide array of crafts, creating their own toys and learning useful skills. The summ…

at the UN General Assembly. The Laren School delegates.

on March 12, 2016, 2000 children gathered at the UN General Assembly Hall to discuss, craft and vote on resolutions pertaining to the world's most pressing issues - Migration and the Right to Mobility, Global Food Waste, Situation in Syria, Climate Change Related Natural Disasters - to name a few. Six students from The Laren School participated - the first and only delegation from Southeast Asia. The resolutions will be given to the different chairs of the different UN Committees. the children's voices have been heard. In this broken world, the children provide hope for humanity.

all set for your trip to new york to participate at the 2016 MM-UN conference. many thanks to PAL for being very generous with our tickets. Hope Leyson Amanda Lim

Starting January, anybody can sign-up for the bi-weekly Metropolitan Theater clean-up drive! The National Commission for Culture and the Arts is doing good on its word, when having acquired the Metropolitan Theater in June, it was tasked to restore and rehabilitate Manila’s foremost landmark of entertainment and popular culture. On Sat, Dec 12, it launched a successful clean-up drive with a…

For sale: organic pechay P5.00 a bundle, from the Casa vegetable patch.

Grown and cared for by the Casa children (3-6 yr. olds).

"If everyone had a Montessori school, they wouldn't need me" - Sigmund Freud

"I spent 8 months building and fixing pens, drying manure under the sun, slaughtering chickens with my hands… when my friends were in Paris with L’Oréal, in HK with Louis Vuitton or in NY with Morgan Stanley. Why the hell was I there? Well, they would take the MRT to go to work when I would ride a horse, they had an office with a view when I had a view with an office, they would grab a coffee on the way when I would grab a mango from the tree... But most important: I had 50 mothers, 50 homes, 200 brothers and sisters and… 400 chicks."

Louis Faure, the chicken man of GK Enchanted Farm from Paris. Discover his testimony about his experience!

"My name is Louis, I was born and raised in Paris, I studied in a prestigious business school, and today I raise hundreds of chickens under the mango trees of the GK Enchanted Farm. When I arrived in August 2014, aged 21 years old, I had never heard of Manny Pacquiao, but I knew about Gawad Kalinga.
In search of a meaningful use of my competencies, I flew all the way to Angat Bulacan to do an internship in “the hub for social entrepreneurship in Asia”, without knowing what I would do there. If I went so far, it’s because I wanted to learn, to be challenged, to step out of my comfort zone. That’s how, after a few weeks of getting to understand how the Farm works, I looked at the Animal Farm where a few animals were raised in pretty bad conditions and decided to put some system behind it. The easiest to start with (I was told) were the chickens, so I dropped my case studies about Apple or Coca-Cola from my business school and researched about azolla, Newcastle disease, slaughter techniques, effective micro-organism, composting etc. That’s how I spent 8 months building and fixing pens, drying manure under the sun, slaughtering chickens with my hands… when my friends were in Paris with L’Oréal, in HK with Louis Vuitton or in NY with Morgan Stanley. Why the hell was I there? Well, they would take the MRT to go to work when I would ride a horse, they had an office with a view when I had a view with an office, they would grab a coffee on the way when I would grab a mango from the tree... But most important: I had 50 mothers, 50 homes, 200 brothers and sisters and… 400 chicks.
After 8 months raising chickens to supply the kitchen of the farm, I realized that there was much more to do, that my chickens could fly much higher, so I told them: dear friends, one day you will feed this country with healthy meat and eggs, mitigate urban migration and restore the cycle of nature in agricultural practices. The dream is big (and honestly they were intimidated), but so is the problem: today most Filipinos consume chickens that are raised in crowded factory farms where they survive 30 days thanks to a heavy use of antibiotics, hormones and GMOs imported from Western countries. The consequence of this growing industry isn’t just that the tinola lost some of its taste, but that people become less resilient to disease as their immune system is affected, that the land is being polluted by millions of tons of toxic manure every year, that small local farmers cannot raise chickens anymore because of their poor infrastructure and limited access to expensive feeds and medicine. Our chickens, a crossbred between cute native hens and heavy French roosters, are today roaming around freely, roosting at night in the kakawate trees, playing hide and seek below the cassava leaves, resting under the shade of the mango trees, running after termites for merienda, drinking oregano juice when their throat is itching… and soon enough, they’ll be doing so all over Bulacan, in integrated 1 hectare plots where farmers will be trained for organic farming and given financial support to start their flock. The trainers will be the farmers I’m currently working with, along with the three SEED students that are doing their internship with me. My job will then be focused on what I was once trained for: have those organic, locally raised chickens, reach the markets of Manila where the demand is high, and they will be called… the FreeBirds. Sounds cool right? Now you know why I have no return ticket."

we are ready for the children.