Caritas Don Bosco School


The Caritas Don Bosco School is a private Catholic co-education institution located in Binan City, Laguna, Philippines. It is overseen and handled by the Caritas Sisters of Jesus, abbreviated as SCG. Caritas Don Bosco School offers pre-school, elementary, junior high school, and senior high school education.

History

The congregation of the Caritas Sisters of Jesus was founded by Italian priests belonging to the Salesians of Don Bosco in 1937 in Miyazaki, Japan. The founder, Fr. Antonio Cavoli, SDB named the congregation "Caritas" because it started with the love and concern for the poor people. The love and self-sacrificing work of the Caritas sisters for the abandoned won the hearts of many non-Catholics and led them to God, and helped spread the Caritas sisters missionary presence in 11 countries with around 500 Japanese sisters and 500 Koreans.
It was in 1992 that the first work offered to them was to set up a school in response to the growing needs of the new community in Laguna Technopark. The Salesian community offered them the parcel of land situated at the junction of Sta. Rosa and Biñan, Laguna. Since the donated land was still bare, the homeowners of Sta. Rosa Village, a village within the vicinity, offered their Multi-Purpose Hall to be the temporary learning site. As a result, a co-educational school was established in 1994.
CDBS had a humble beginning consisting of 21 pre-schoolers and three Caritas sisters together with two lay teachers. Today, the CDBS family has grown with more than 1,000 in student population and more than a hundred faculty and staff. They now have eight buildings and a chapel named Stella Maris.

Grade School Department

The Grade School Department holds the largest department of the school in terms of students population. It consists of Preschool to Grade 6 pupils. The St. Joseph's Building houses the elementary classrooms. It is a three-storey building designed with ramps to provide easy access from students going up and going down the floors.

Junior High School Department

The Sacred Heart of Jesus Building houses the High School Department. It consists of two floors and ramps are also present for easy access. The following are the subject areas that form part of the high school curriculum:
The Senior High School Department currently offers the following strands from the Academic Track
Caritas Don Bosco School is part of the Don Bosco Athletic Association, wherein its other members are the different Don Bosco Schools in the Philippines. Its mascot is Grigio the Greywolf, hence, called Caritas Greywolves or Don Bosco Greywolves.

Chapel

Caritas Don Bosco School houses a boat-shaped chapel called the Stella Maris Chapel, a two-storey chapel inspired by Noah's Ark. Most of the masses are usually held here while departmental masses which happens every first Friday of the month takes place in the school gymnasium to accommodate larger number of students.