Programs

SMA’s Preschool

SMA welcomes your 3-5 year old kids to the entrance gate of the World of Learning.

Our preschool world of learning opens to these kids  many doors to the different “classrooms of development”.

The various “classrooms of development” are embedded in the preschool curriculum to prepare them in capturing and directing their interest toward developmentally appropriate activities that will provide a solid foundation which will build their knowledge, skills, understanding and experience through active play, manipulation of materials and expressive learning including art, music, stories and role plays.

And to top it all, SMA Preschool is a place where young kids come first, during their moments of exploration, because they are immersed in harmony, warmth and acceptance as they walk through the gates of SMA world of learning.

SMA’s Elementary School

The program allows the learner to continue their journey towards self-discovery. It gives the learners more opportunities to explore, expand and extend what they already know and have.

As the learners continue their journey and discover their capabilities, capacities and skills, they are provided opportunities to share their learnings with the world and the people in their midst.

They are given the intellectual challenges they need in an appropriate environment taking into account their physical, emotional and social as well as their cognitive development.

As the six years of schooling in the elementary level unfold, learners are provided with many life lessons that will make them truly enjoy the foundation years of their schooling and that will holistically prepare them for more challenging and more complex experiences in their Junior High School life.

SMA’s Junior High School

In our continuing search for quality learning and as mandated by the Departed of Education SMA offers an enriched curriculum whereby learners are provided with richly diversified opportunities and activities aimed at producing total and holistic children.

Our teachers are challenged to expand their teaching strategies and techniques in delivering their lessons by including the development of the whole child’s social, intrapersonal, physical, creative, intuitive, musical, communicative and visual spatial skills in addition to the honing of the 21st Century skills focusing on analytical, logical and critical thinking skills.

SMA’s Special Education

Stella Maris Academy of Malolos Inc., being a government recognized Special Education Center has humbly but courageously continued to provide basic education since School Year 2004 up to the present.

The SMA’s SPED Program caters to learners with exceptionalities such as ADHD, ASD, LD, GDD, and DOWN SYNDROME.

The program makes sure that the above-mentioned special needs children will be afforded access to quality learning utilizing the holistic approach considering their individual and unique learning needs

Outlined below are the SPED instructional programs offered/applied by SMA.

1. Inclusion – all children with disabilities, regardless of the nature and severity of their disability receive their total education within  the regular education classroom
2. Integration/ Mainstreaming – Children with special needs are enrolled in a regular class with support services.
   • Partial Integration – a child with special needs is integrated with regular children in non-academic activities like HELE (Home Economics and Livelihood Education) Physical Education, Arts, School Programs, etc. then gradually integrated in the academic subjects if qualified.
   • Full Integration/ Mainstreaming – a child with special needs sits in a regular class in all academic and non-academic learning areas.
3. Pull-out – A child enrolled in the regular class reports to a SPED Teacher for special instructions in Mathematics, Reading and Writing in both languages.
4. Self-Contained/ Special Class – This is a special class for only one type of exceptionality which serves moderate to severe types of disabilities.
5. Itinerant Teaching – SMA allows a traveling SPED Teacher to reach out to children with special needs in their homes to provide direct teaching and consultative services.