Pueblo de Oro Development Corporation sealed its partnership with The Abba’s Orchard, the largest and one of the most esteemed Montessori schools in the country, as an educational partner in its 42-ha mixed-use development in Malvar, Batangas, the Pueblo de Oro Townscapes Malvar. The 50-year lease agreement was formalized in a signing ceremony held on March 23, 2022.
Replicating its success from building 13 campuses nationwide since 1998, The Abba’s Orchard will construct a one-hectare learning center in Townscapes to initially offer its Casa and Level One Program for children between 3–6 and 6-9 years old.
Delivered in a prepared environment set by the Montessori pedagogy under the supervision of well-trained guides, the program focuses on the child’s absorbent and inquisitive mind in the learning areas of practical life, sensory development, mathematics, language, the arts and the sciences.
The campus is envisioned to grow out to offering Level Two for 9-12 years old and the Erdkinder farm environment for the adolescents, 12-18 years old.
The Abba’s Orchard stands as the first and only school system in the Asia-Pacific, present in nine major national hubs, equipped, trained, and experienced to offer a high-fidelity Montessori curriculum for children from infancy to adolescence. The Malvar campus will be open in August 2023.