Family Day at PAREF Woodrose School for Girls

I’ve never seen a school that gives so much importance to activities that involve kids and their respective parents. They call it Family Day at PAREF Woodrose, a school for girls in Ayala Alabang Village, Muntinlupa City.

A yearly affair at Woodrose

Family Day is not just picnic day at Woodrose. Both kids and their parents look forward to cheering competition, one of the highlights of the program. At least four teams, the Red, Blue, Green and Gold team vie for the best performance title.

Competition proper

According to a proud mom of four, kids don’t actually expect to get a big prize after the competition because the kids are just having fun and its all for the love of teamwork. The kids, from elementary to high school, perform to the delight of the cheering crowd.

Perfecting their moves

Mini cheer leaders posing before the camera

Family Day is where you get to meet the friends of your kids and their doting parents as well. It also elicits support and strengthen camaraderie among parents.

Profits go to cause-oriented projects

Family Day at Woodrose also means helping out other people. Every year, parents hold flea market and silent auction. Donations vary from books, toys, and office and kitchen stuff from parents themselves. The profits go to various outreach projects of the school including education for poor children, feeding program and catechism activities in the outskirts of Woodrose.

The School

Woodrose School Overview

Established in 1977 by Parents for Education Foundation (PAREF), Woodrose is geared towards promoting academic excellence and character formation to students. This is evident in its Singapore Math and Science curriculum; high ratings in the National Admissions Test; and highly competent teachers.

“Teaching Singaporean Math and Science involve a lot of activities and experiments that are easy to understand,” Ms. Delia S. Udani, Woodrose Executive Director said.

Ms. Udani stressed that students are not just taught to memorize, but to be analytical. They let students share what they grasp or learn about their lesson.

Mentoring System

At Woodrose, they engage parents to be part of their kids’ education through home-school collaboration. They (Woodrose) assigned a tutor, who is also a member of the school staff, to each student. Each tutor also serves as mentor, a life coach, and a mature friend to a child – the ones who provide direction to the girls’ self-development. These mentors are the ones who collaborate with the parents, setting a meeting with them on a regular basis about their kids’ development, both academic and character.

Woodrose Lesson

During the media and bloggers round-table discussion with parents, teachers and students (representing each color team), I was able to learn about the kind of school every parents dream of sending their children to. “It’s a school that is also a home,” said one of the proud parents.

Photo credit: Ms. Janette Toral

Parents beamed with pride as they share how lucky they are to entrust their kids to Woodrose because their kids are guided properly. “Kids are taught to become better persons, more assertive,” another mom said. I’ve observed this by the way they answer questions thrown at them during the round-table discussion.

I also learned that these kids despite their being young are already responsible in putting up a school-based socio-civic organization called Puso, which supports kids from poor families by sending them to school and enroll them in a feeding program in an area in Muntinlupa.

If you are interested to know more about Woodrose and the quality of education they offer, check out their site through the links provided here. I’m sure your kids will enjoy all the school activities at Woodrose.

By the way, the school also accepts non-Catholic students.

After you have decided to be a part of Woodrose, you can complete the following basic requirements for admission.

The Admission Procedure
1. Submission of all required documents
• Accomplished Parents’ Information Sheet
• NSO Certified Parents’ Marriage Contract *
• NSO Certified Student’s Birth Certificate *
• Original and photocopy of Student’s Baptismal Certificate
• Report Card
• 2 x 2 pictures (2 copies)
• Recommendation form accomplished by the Guidance and Testing Office of the previous school
• Recommendation form accomplished by the Class Adviser and Registrar of the previous school
* For foreign documents, Original and Photocopy of the Marriage Contract of the Parents / Original and Photocopy of the Student’s Birth Certificate. Original Documents will be returned to the Parents.

2. Parental Attendance at the Orientation for Parents

3. Interviews and Testing
• Parents are interviewed by a PAREF representative
• Student takes an assessment test
• Student is interviewed by the Level Coordinator

4. It is following this procedure that a Letter of Notice is prepared and mailed to the parents

For more information, please contact the School Registrar, Mrs. Rose Dumlao at 850-6380 to 83 local 111.

14 thoughts on “Family Day at PAREF Woodrose School for Girls

  1. levyousa

    the mini cheerleaders are so adorable. If I am near the area and have the resources, I will definitely enroll my daughter in this school. Pero dapat may daughter muna 🙂

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    1. Yami Post author

      They’re so cute, ang sarap i-hug. 🙂 Tama, you have to make a daughter first and then save up for her education at Woodrose. 🙂

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  2. WAHMaholic

    ang galing naman sa school na yan! sana lang afford ko at malapit kami sa school nila (parang inulit ko lang sinabi ni levy no. haha!) kasi i’m sure mag-eenjoy mag-aral si svet jan 🙂

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  3. Kat

    It was such an eye-opener to see how important the family day was for the kids AND their parents. I’m glad I was given a chance to learn more about the school, especially since I’m scouting around for schools for my little one too 😀

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  4. Kat

    I’m glad I was given a chance to attend this family day. It was indeed an eye-opener to see how important such an event was for both the STUDENTS and their PARENTS because of their home-school collaboration. Definitely worth considering for us since we’re looking at schools for the little one 😀

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  5. nicquee

    I experienced my first family day this year sa school ni Alex. Despite being on a mi-shift, hubby went with us because he knew it is important for Alex. Un, enjoy naman. Will check out this school lalo na kung matuloy kami sa plans.

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  6. Sammy

    Thanks for sharing this, Yami. I’ve heard about PAREF and have heard about a lot of ncie things about this school, but it’s nice to be able to see what’s “inside”. And hey,I can see what they meant when they said it’s a good school. I can only agree more. 🙂

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