Begin Your Child’s Story in Bannister

We’ve realized that education isn’t just about students learning from teachers. It’s also about teachers learning from students. That’s why we have lofty aspirations for our students.


We don’t just want to teach them. We want to be inspired by them. We have what it takes to help your child make it big in the world. If you believe that your child deserves the chance to change the world, we would love to be a part of his or her story.


We also believe in the strength of the human spirit to adapt, innovate, and transcend all circumstances. We have faith in the capacity of kids and teens to bring out the best in themselves. And we supply young minds with a liberal, humanistic education to help them stand out from the rest: intellectually, physically, and spiritually.


Begin that story in Bannister Academy or visit our new building at Circulo Verde and observe a class (see location map).


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Bannister Background

Bannister Background

Sometime in mid-April 2009, a group of young professionals, parents, and education experts came together and dreamt of creating an opportunity for children and early adolescents to acquire basic education that would eventually pave the way for sound leadership and service in private business, social enterprise, the academe, government, and the rest of civil society. The school was to be an academic community committed to offer the kind of education good and responsible parents would want for their children.   It was to be a non-denominational, lay and secular, school for boys and girls, offering basic education that spans from pre-school to high school. The orientation was to be liberal education, where teachers “teach students rather than subjects”, where their …

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Bannister Philosophy

Philosophy

Bannister’s philosophy of education is expressed in the catchphrase,   Learning for Life through Personalized Education. Student feature: Nicole Reyes   She was a normal teenager who did the things a bunch of her other friends from school would do; they hung out at each other’s homes on the weekends, posted self-made music videos on Facebook, and watched movies on the occasion. As a student, she would wake up everyday, ride to school with her siblings and by 4pm, be on her way home.   She was a passionate 14 year-old with a bucket list of talents; she danced, she sang, she drew and she was the friend everyone wanted to have. The only thing less than spectacular was her …

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Curriculum Outline

curriculum outline

The Bannister Curriculum shall have a strong liberal education orientation, which looks at one reality, the world around us, from the different perspectives of the subject fields taught by the faculty. After all …   English and Filipino (skills: grammar and communication) are the tools to comprehend and express the world around us in words, phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs, and full works, either fiction or non-fiction, either in poetry or prose;       Mathematics (skills: arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus) is likewise atool to comprehend and express the world around us but in numbers, number sentences, formulas, simulated problems,and complex number systems;       Science and Social Studies (knowledge: earth, biology, chemistry, physics, history and civilization, geography, government, culture) …

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Character Development

Character Development

Character Education permeates ALL learning areas and subjects above, but with specific focus according to the perceived major developmental concerns of the students’ age group, as follows: First Year: Studies, Friendship, and Social Relations Second Year: Family and Family Solidarity Third Year: Social Issues and Civic Responsibility Fourth Year: Personality Development, Marriage, and Family Life For high school the pedagogical directions of Bannister would be as follows: GOAL 1: CULTIVATING INTELLECTUAL LIFE Stress on subjects developing the intellect (Literature, History, Science, Mathematics, for example) Stress on work and study habits GOAL 2: HONING IN COMPREHENSION AND EXPRESSION SKILLS Stress on subjects proper to writing, reading, listening and speaking through promotion criteria and policy for the succeeding curriculum year Incorporation of …

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