About Our School

Through Negros Oriental, We Are United in Our Dedication to Children’s Knowledge

Who We Are

Thee Purpose of Montessori Education

Montessori observed that all children, regardless of culture, follow certain patterns of bahavior or “tendencies” as they grow and develop. Tendencies not only bring acquisition of skills, they also bring a sense of satisfaction to the mind and soul. Our teachers follow the child’s intrinsic needs and tendencies at each stage of development, nurturing their natural desire to learn, discover and maximizing their potentialities.

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Our Approach

The Prepared Environment

The Montessori classroom provides a prepared environment where children are given the opportunity to respond to their natural tendency to work. The learning materials are specifically designed to help them explore their world and develop essential cognitive skills. Children work freely at their own pace, and in the process develop self-confidence, inner discipline and a joy of learning, free from peer competition. Our Guiding Principles to provide a language-rich, stimulating and nurturing learning environment to support the child’s needs and tendencies during their sensitive periods of development to respect the child’s personality and integrity as an individual to help the child overcome difficulties to impart knowledge and skills to help the child become a critical thinker, problem solver and lifelong learnr

Our Story

Establish in 1995, the NEGROS ORIENTAL MONTESSORI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL (SIMON) is a private co-educational school for children from ages 2 ½ to 18. The program include Junior Casa to Senior Casa (2 ½ to 5 years old), Advanced Casa (5 to 6 years old), Lower to Upper Elementary (6-12 years old), Junior High School-Grades 7-10 (12-18 year old) and Special Education.

The School Founder, Dr. Maria Luz Calumpang- Fuentes is a certified Montessori Teacher from the MARIA MONTESSORI TEACHER’S TRAINING CENTER in San Francisco, California and in a bona fide member of the North America Montessori Teachers Association (NAMTA), Association Montessori Internationale (Bergamo, Italy), and the International Montessori Society.

— Our Mission

The Negros Oriental Montessori International School community is dedicated to developing individuals who think, question, reason, and imagine. Our mission is to empower students to become caring citizens who contribute to their local, national, and global communities. We foster learners self-worth by recognizing social, emotional, physical and intellectual needs within a respectful, loving and supportive community.

— Our Vision

SIMON sees each child as an individual with the capacity and the ability to reach his maximum potential. To achieve this vision, the School aids the child by:

Developing the following characteristics:
A love of order
A love of work
Profound spontaneous concentration
An attachment to reality
A love of silence and of working alone
Sublimation of the possessive instinct
Power to act from real choice and not from curiosity
Obedience Independence and initiative
Spontaneous self-discipline Joy
Inculcating the values of Commitment, Dignity and Excellence

International Montessori Society
Model School Discipline Policy

Our School is committed to discipline of children that always dignifies and respects their own true natural inner guidance and self-directed purpose for harmony, order, cooperation and love towards their environment. Adults shall therefore only interact with children to resolve their misbehavior by means that support each child’s self-discipline. Consistent with this policy, adults assure the children’s compliance and cooperation with necessary procedures and proper behavior through such positive, respectful means as: example, clear directions, reasoning, distraction, reflective language and questioning.

The school considers any intentional inflicting of physical pain, or threat of such pain, on children, by such means as pulling hair, grabbing, pulling, hitting, spanking, slapping, pinching, etc., as inconsistent and contrary to its discipline policy. These actions are therefore prohibited on school grounds by any adult at any time.

This policy applies to all adults while on school premises, including regular staff, part-time personnel, volunteers and parents and their agents. All such adults are required to and agree to follow this discipline policy at all times in their interaction with children on school premises. This policy also includes the actions of parents or their agents in the treatment of their own children while on school premises.

Any adult who violates this policy agrees to accept correction, direction or other suitable guidance to cooperate in a remedy of the situation, consistent with the discipline policy stated here.