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Paaralang La Salle Green Hills
Motto	Ad Deum Per Fidem Mores Culturam To God, through faith, virtue and culture
Established	1959
Type	Private, Lasallian, Catholic
Affiliation	NCAA, DLSPI, EDSOR
Affiliations	NCAA, DLSPI, EDSOR[1]
President	Br. Felipe Belleza FSC
Principal	Evangeline Tamaca GS Amy Galang HS
Faculty	~900
Students	~7,300[2]
Grades	Kindergarten 1-2 Grade 1-7 High School I-IV
Location	343 Ortigas Avenue, Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, Philippines
Oversight	De La Salle Brothers in the Philippines
Accreditation	PAASCU
Campus	Urban, 60,000 m²
Colors	Green and White
Mascot	The Green Archer[3]
Yearbook	Ranger GS Scope HS
Newspaper	Hasik, EPA Link GS Lazette, PALS. net HS
Hymn	De La Salle Alma Mater Hymn
Varsity Team	Greenies
Website	http://www.lsgh.edu.ph

La Salle Green Hills (LSGH, Green Hills, or simply La Salle) is a Private Catholic high school for boys located on Ortigas Avenue, Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila, Philippines. It is run by the Roman Catholic De La Salle Brothers in the Philippines.

La Salle Green Hills has two kindergarten levels, seven elementary levels (eleven sections in Grades 1 through 6, ten sections in Grade 7), and four high school years (eleven sections in the first year and ten sections in each of the other three years.)^[4][5]

La Salle Green Hills is the fourth oldest campus of De La Salle Philippines, the governing body of all Lasallian institutions in the Philippines, after the original De La Salle University in Manila (1911) , University of St. La Salle in Bacolod (1952), and the La Salle Academy in Iligan (1958).

The La Salle Green Hills High School Department was given a clean 7-year accreditation by the PAASCU using Survey form B in 1987 and 1998, thus making it the first and only high school institution to receive such. ^[6][7]

Contents 1 Background 2 History 3 The Campus 3.1 St. Benilde Gym/Cafeteria 3.2 Classroom buildings 3.3 Other buildings 3.4 Sporting areas 3.5 Libraries 3.6 Spiritual activities and development facilities 3.6.1 Retreat House Complex 4 The School Emblem 5 The Adult Night High School 6 Academics 6.1 Honors Class 6.2 Grade School academics 6.3 High School academics 7 Performing Arts 8 Athletics 9 Notable alumni 10 References 10.1 Notes 11 External links

The educational work of the Brothers in the Philippines started when nine Brothers from Marseilles, France arrived in Manila on March 29, 1911 upon invitation of the then American Archbishop of Manila, Jeremias J. Harty, himself an alumnus of a De La Salle High School in the United States, to establish a college, the De La Salle College. De La Salle College, now De La Salle University Manila, was originally located in Nozaleda St., Paco but was moved to Taft Avenue, Malate in 1921.^[8] Since then the Brothers have opened 17 other schools in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao forming De La Salle Philippines. ^[9]

During the early 1950s the Brothers of De La Salle College-Manila led by Brother H. Gabriel Connon FSC, hesitantly acquired a six hectare lot on Ortigas Avenue in Mandaluyong to relocate the De La Salle Novitiate from Baguio and to accommodate increasing requests for admission to the then De La Salle Grade School on Taft Avenue, Manila.^[8]

Then, in July 1959 La Salle Green Hills (then spelled La Salle - Green Hills^[10]) opened its door to two preparatory sections and one section each for grades one and two. Its first Brother-Director was Brother Alphonsus Bloemen FSC who first came to teach in De La Salle College in Manila in 1940. On August 24, 1960, La Salle Green Hills, Inc. was registered as non-stock, non-profit corporation with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In August 1964, the high school was established.^[8]

La Salle Green Hills also undergone accreditation and have had exemplary results when the school is evaluated by the Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities in 1972, 1974, 1977 (after a 3 year accreditation grant), 1982, 1987 (both receiving 5 year grants), all of these visits were given clean accreditations making the only high school to do such. And in 1998, LSGH was given another seven year accreditation. ^[8] And after the last accrediting visit which was on September 2005, the High School of La Salle Green Hills was given another 5 year grant.^[11][12]

In June 2009, La Salle Green Hills will celebrate its golden jubilee, and in 2011 will celebrate together with the rest of the De La Salle schools in the Philippines the centennial celebration of the De La Salle Brothers in the Philippines.^[8]

The school is situated on a six-hectare campus fronting Ortigas Avenue, across from Wack-Wack Village and Golf Course.

Probably the most well-known building on the school grounds, construction of the dome-shaped structure began in 1967.^[13] It houses the main basketball courts sometimes used for the various basketball games and the cafeteria on the ground floor. It is also used as a shortcut for high school students to get to the high school building. And this is where the graduation ceremonies of the graduating classes (Grade 6A, 7 and 4th Year High School) are celebrated. In the 1970's it was referred to as the "siopao" because of its shape. It is used every six years for presidential election ballot counting by NAMFREL.^[14] The school holds its monthly masses for the grade school and high school. The Educational Exchange Center (bookstore) is located beside the cafeteria. The HS Band Room and Ladies Shower Room are located in the basement. The mezzanine houses the HS Electronics Room, HS Computer Laboratories, HS Art and Cooking Rooms, Cesar Cruz Hall, HS Guidance Office, HS Faculty Lounge, HS Chaplain's Office, HS Registrar's Office, Adult Night High School Guidance Office, and the Student Activities Central Body(SACB) Office. Currently, the mezzanine is being renovated to house all the Arts and Technology, and Computer education subjects.

• Saint La Salle Building

There are two wings of the St. La Salle Building, the building and the annex. Named after the founder of the school, the building is a five-story structure designed to facilitate the teaching-learning process in a multimedia environment.

This edifice features air-conditioned classrooms, each equipped with a computer, television monitor and VHS equipment. They are occupied by Grades 5-7 as well as the bridge connecting to the St. Miguel Febres Cordero Building, which hosts half of the Grade 2 classrooms but now is undergoing renovation. There are also special rooms for Basic Carpentry, Basic Electricity and Cooking. Five computer and two science laboratories can also be found here. The building also hosts the office of the Assistant Principal of the Learning Community 3.

• Brother Arnold Reche FSC Building

Rising along the school quadrangle is the Bro. Arnold Reche Building where five of the Grade 2 and all of the Grade 3 and 4 classrooms are situated. It houses a room for Home Arts, a room for Ceramics, one science laboratory, one art room, and one music room. It also houses the Learning Community 2 Assistant Principal's office, Student Activities Coordinator's Office, and Grade School Academic Coordinators' Office. The St. La Salle Chapel (see below), Main Clinic, and the Main Library (see below) are also located here.

• Saint Brother Miguel Febres Cordero FSC Building

The building is located behind the St. La Salle Main Building, and houses the Grade 1 classrooms, seven Grade 2 classrooms, the Learning Community 1 Assistant Principal's office, and the Grade School Principal's office. It houses two computer laboratories, a music room, and an activity room.

• Saint Brother Mutien Marie FSC Building

Behind the St. Benilde Gym, the St. Mutien Marie Building houses the entire High School Department. It has eleven First Year classrooms, and ten classrooms for each of the Second Year through Fourth Year levels. The Principal's Office, High School Chapel, High School Office, Lower Years Activity Room, Maria Pilapil Hall, and High School Library (see below) are all found on the Ground Floor. The offices of the Lower Years Assistant Principal, LY Prefect, and LY Faculty Work Area are found on the third floor, the Upper Years Assistant Principal's, UY Prefect's offices, and UY Faculty Work Area, are house on the fourth floor, and HS Academic Coordinators' offices are found on the fifth floor. A computer laboratory is also found on the fifth floor.

The Adult Night High School (see below) Academic Coordinator's Office is found on the second floor. The basement houses the Automotive, Drafting, and Kundirana Rooms.

• St. Joseph the Worker Building

The St. Joseph the Worker Building houses the students and faculty of the Kindergarten department. The Kinder 1 Building has two floors for the students and faculty of the department, along with its own library. The four-story Kinder 2 Building is the newest building on campus. The Kinder 2 Department is located on the first three floors, while the fourth floor contains the HS LCLE Computer Laboratories, HS Music Room, HS Performing Arts Room, and HS Publication Office. The Kinder buildings were dedicated to St. Joseph on 2007.

• Central House

This was the first building in 1959. It was here that the first classes of LSGH were held. Today, it is the residence of the FSC Brothers of LSGH, this is more commonly known to the students as the "Brothers' House." It is usually off-limits to all students except for the HS Science Laboratories (Integrated Science, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics) on the fourth floor.

• Brother Rafael S. Donato FSC Center for the Performing Arts

The Brother Rafael S. Donato FSC Center for the Performing Arts (Br. Donato Center) is the home of both the grade school and high school theater arts departments of La Salle Green Hills. The former St. Joseph's Auditorium underwent a complete renovation in 2004 and was renamed as the St. Joseph's Theater. It was then dedicated on March 2007 to Brother Rafael Donato FSC, who died in Bagac, Bataan, on November 2, 2006, 2 weeks after his 50th anniversary as a De La Salle Brother. It has orchestra and balcony sections which can accommodate 628 persons and its newly-installed lighting and sound systems make it the best-equipped medium-sized performing arts venue within the San Juan and Mandaluyong-Ortigas area. ^[15]

Plays directed by the critically-acclaimed director Victoria L. Magbag are held here. She has directed such productions such as "Sino Ka Ba Talaga Juan de la Cruz", "JAG Rocks You" and she has recently presented "Jag Rocks You Part 2" which included members of the grade school and a club she manages called the Junior Actors Guild (J.A.G.).

This has also been the venue of great productions by the High School Department's Cue Drama Club ^[16] (more known as Cue), headed by Ms. Virginia Natividad for the past 13 years. Cue Drama stages productions every year tackling plays such as "The Huncback of Notre Dame", "Romeo and Juliet", "Filipinos Para Los Filipinas", "The Man of La Mancha", "West Side Story", "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat", "Pippin", "Oliver", "Aida", "The Producers" and recently "Wicked".

La Salle Green Hills has many various sport facilities, catering to various sports.

Among the facilities, one of them is the St. Benilde Gymnasium (pictured above), which is the one which carries the identity of the school, and is the most known building in the campus. Although called a gym, it does not house an actual gym (unlike the one in the Father Martinez Activity Center, or FMAC) ^[17], but houses basketball games and practices. It has 3 full courts, two wooden and 1 hardcourt. The hardcourt has a sitting capacity of approx. 450 and is where most games (particularly in the NCAA and PBL) are held.

The other gym is the Father Martinez Activity Center (FMAC). It was finished on September 11,1998 and was named after LSGH's priest at the time but unfortunately died. ^[18] It has 3 basketball courts, one full court made of Taraflex and the other two are convertible to volleyball/ badminton courts, the Weights room.^[17], and a Wall climbing facility.

La Salle Green Hills also has a full-sized football field, named after Brother Gilbert Cotter, FSC, an American De La Salle Brother who used to handle LSGH and was closely tied to football. This is where football matches are held (mostly by the school's varsity team) as well as field demonstrations in school festivities.

Other facilities include the Track Oval, Baseball diamond, Beach Volleyball court, Lawn Tennis Court, Swimming pool, Wall climbing facility, and Table tennis room.

• Main Library

The Main Library of LSGH is located in the quadrangle area located at the Br. Arnold Reche Building. It has the Filipiniana section, Easy Reading, Cyberquest, Reference and Fictional and Non-Fictional sections. It is complete in computer services including internet and printing.

• Annex Library

The Annex Library is located in the St. La Salle Building Annex and is used mainly by Grades 5-7 and is off-limits to the lower grades(Grades1-4). It has most of the services of the Main Library but no longer includes the Easy Reading Section. Photocopying services are available in this library. There is also the internet which is commonly used by Grades 5-7 which will only be used for studying purposes.

• High School Library

The High School library is located on the ground floor of the High School Building and is used only by the High School. It has the same services as the Annex Library but also includes the Leisure Reading area where comics and digests can be found. It is the biggest library in the campus. The GHArchives (Green Hills Archives) and the HS Audio - Visual Center, and ANHS collection are also housed in this library.

Since La Salle Green Hills is a school dedicated for the formation of Christian gentlemen, the school has provided facilities for the spiritual activities and development of its students.

La Salle Green Hills has 3 chapels, the National Shrine of the Divine Child, St. La Salle Chapel, and the High School Chapel.

The main chapel of LSGH is the National Shrine of the Divine Child, or the NSDC. The chapel is where wakes are held (for deceased faculty, alumni, brothers, etc.). The chapel also serves regular Sunday masses at 10:00am and a special Christmas eve mass every December 24 at 10:00pm. This is also where the Grade 2 classes have their First Holy Communion every January-February.

The chapel serving the Grade School is the St. La Salle Chapel, which is located in the ground floor of the Bro. Arnold Reche Building. It serves as the location for the yearly class masses of grades 5-7 and the location of meditation and prayer for students and faculty.

The chapel serving the High School is the High School Chapel, which is located in the ground floor of the St. Mutien Marie Building and is used for the trimestral class masses of the 1st to 4th year and for reflection, meditation, and prayer for HS faculty and students.

Larger community gatherings such as the community mass is done at the gym.

The Retreat House is situated behind the Kinder One building. It can house two simultaneous class recollections. The two-story building has identical facilities on both floors: Conference room, dining hall, kitchen, dormitory, showers, and lavatories. The dormitories are furnished with bunk beds which can accommodate a class of about 55 (full) and is air-conditioned.

The shield is quartered by the form of a cross. On the upper left, the three broken chevrons are as in the coat of arms of the La Salle family representing the name of the school La Salle. The upper right contains the five-point star with rays, the sign of faith, from the seal of the Brothers of the Christian Schools who conduct the school. The lower left portion contains a section of the Philippine flag signifying loyalty to the country. The lower right, with its hill represented in green is for Green Hills, and the monument to signify Rizal Province, localizes the location of the school.

The shield is topped with the helmet and breastplate. The salvation of souls is the uppermost aim of our school, hence the "helmet of salvation" and the "breastplate of integrity" signify the primary objective. The motto "To God, through faith, virtue and culture" further emphasizes that the school offers all the greater honor and glory of God. In green and white in classical design, the name and place of the school surround the shield.

The ANHS was established to educate the marginalized, not only financially, but also to the physically-challenged namely: the deaf and the mute Filipinos. It teaches them vocational courses that they could use to earn a living. It usually teaches from post-teen years students to those who are already advanced in years. These classes are held at the High School Building, from 6:00 to 11:00 in the evening after the regular students have their classes.

La Salle Green Hills has honors sections for students who excel in all academic subjects, the reason for having a honors class if for advanced teaching compared to the regular classes. La Salle Green Hills has 1 honors section in the grade school (section A) and 2 in the High School (section changes yearly). Every year, the honors section of Grade 6 accelerates and skips Grade 7, going straight to 1st year High School, where they are all in one section. That is why the High School department has 2 honors sections, one for the regular unaccelerated who excel, and for the accelerated class from Grade 6. The Grade 7 does not have a honors class. ^[19]

When SY 2007 - 2008 started, the Honors Class regulations in High School has been changed, along with the changing of grading periods (from quarterly to trimestral). The First to Fourth honors sections are A and B. For the first year, A is those who were accelerated, B is for those who did not. For the rest of the years, sections A and B are composed of the top 88 or so of the batch, accelerated or not. There is no more semi - honors class. Both A and B are considered honors classes, therefore they have the same curriculum. The exception to this is the current 3rd Year Batch, whose honors sections are 3-E and 3-F, with 3-F being semi - honors.In the upcoming school year, there will be only one honors section for the Upper Years, which is section A. The Lower Years honors sections will remain as sections A and B. The top 44 students of classes A and B from the second year will determine the students of the honors section.

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1. Language (Grammar, Composition and Speech)
2. Reading (Vocabulary, Comprehension and basic literature)
3. Mathematics (Basic Mathematics. Operations, fractions, decimals, basic geometry and algebra)
4. Science (General Sciences)
5. Christian Living (Religious Studies)
6. Filipino (Filipino Grammar, Literature, Comprehension and Vocabulary) - taught in Filipino
7. Sibika at Kultura/HEKASI (History) (Philippine History taught in Filipino Language)
8. Penmanship (Grades 1-7)
9. Art (Grades 1-7)
10. EPP (Edukasyong Pantahanan at Panlipunan) (Grades 3-7)
11. Physical Education (Grades 1-7)

The EPP class is catered to Grades 3 to 7 students to enhance their skills in Home Economics. Curricula of this class are:

• Grades 3 and 4: Home Arts and Ceramics
• Grade 5: Basic Carpentry (Utility Box) and Basic Electricity (lampshade)
• Grade 6: Basic Electricity (Project is the lampshade) and Macrame (Project is a knot-made image)
• Grade 7: Home Cooking (concentrates on cooking the six - course meal. 1 meal per meeting)Teacher:Ms.Karen Love Saludo

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Freshman

1. English - Basic and Philippine Literature, Grammar and Reading
2. Social Science - Philippine History
3. Mathematics - Algebra I
4. Science - General Science
5. Christian Living - Old and New Testament
6. Filipino - Wide study of the Language and Literature
7. Arts and Technology - Electronics, Music (Band), Computer- Flash MX 2004

Sophomore

1. English - Asian Literature, Grammar, Reading and Rhetoric (considered as a separate subject but grades are incorporated to English)
2. Social Science - Asian Studies
3. Mathematics - Algebra II
4. Science - Biology
5. Christian Living - Church History and Sacraments
6. Filipino - Intelligent study of the Language and Literature
7. Arts and Technology - Drafting/AutoCAD 2006, Integrated Arts, Computer - ActionScript

Junior

1. English - English-American Literature, Grammar and Reading
2. Social Science - World History
3. Mathematics - Geometry and Statistics
4. Science - Chemistry
5. Christian Living - Morality and Vocation
6. Filipino - Literature and Introduction to Rhetoric
7. Arts and Technology - Home Management and Culinary Arts, Computer - HTML

Senior

1. English - World Literature
2. Social Science - Economics
3. Mathematics - Advanced Algebra and Trigonometry
4. Science - Physics
5. Christian Living - Social Teachings of the Church
6. Filipino - Rhetoric and Literary Analysis
7. Arts and Technology - Automotive, Music Appreciation, Computer - Visual basic (basic programming)

Others

• Physical Education and Health

Ever since the opening of the school, LSGH has been holding plays, concerts and so-called "Activity Days" in each grade level (a particular day in the year where students recite short stories, poems, and even give speeches in English and Filipino), to enhance the students taste for the performing arts. Most of these events are held at the now Bro. Rafael Donato Center for the Performing Arts, and even in the old St. Joseph's Auditorium, (the name of the Bro. Donato Center before renovation).

La Salle Green Hills has clubs for those who want to partake in plays, the Junior Actor's Guild (JAG) in the Grade School and the Cue Drama Club in High School. These clubs hold about 3 plays per year and are held in the Bro. Donato Center. The school also has a well-renowned singing group, Kundirana, which is composed of about 12-18 high school students. Kundirana has performed several concerts since its establishment in the 1970's. The Kundirana has also the distinction of being the most famous high school singing group in the Philippines. ^[22]

Main Article: La Salle Greenies

The La Salle Green Hills varsity team is either named the La Salle Greenies, the named used when representing the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde Blazers in the NCAA as their junior counterpart and La Salle Green Archers outside the NCAA. They were also the juniors representative of the De La Salle Green Archers in the NCAA from 1968-1981.^[23]

In the NCAA, the Greenies have won 9 Juniors General Championships, 7 with DLSU and 2 with DLS-CSB.^[24]

The reason for La Salle Green Hills having two names is because of La Salle Green Hills community being accustomed to the moniker Green Archers because of one, LSGH's association to De La Salle University-Manila, and because of LSGH's 14-year stint with the Green Archers in the NCAA from 1968 to 1981. The name Greenies was derived from the removed De La Salle High School which had the same monicker, the Greenies which LSGH replaced in the NCAA. Since the re-entry of LSGH in the NCAA it decided to keep its moniker. Because of this the LSGH pep squad have two variations of cheers when it comes to the NCAA games.In high school basketball,Christian Dela Paz and Martin Reyes are the standouts.Thomas Torres and Rodel Joven for grade school. Notable changes are instead of the traditional "Go La Salle" cheer, it has exactly the same beat except it is revised to "Go Benilde". ^[25]

• Thomas "Butch" Dumpit, Jr. - LSGH-HS'79,PMA Class '84, Congressman, 2nd district of La Union
• Clemen Bautista - DZRH Radio Reporter
• Dr. Paulino Gureng - Doctor of Statistics
• Francis "Kiko" Pangilinan - politician / Senator
• Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. - politician
• Ralph Recto - politician
• Robert Ace Barbers - politician
• Gary Valenciano - singer ^[26]
• Randy Dellosa - psychologist, psychiatrist
• Alejandro Molina - entrepreneur
• Anthony Pangilinan - entrepreneur
• Gerovy King - Indian entrepreneur
• Miguel de Jesus - entrepreneur
• Miguelito Reyes - entrepreneur
• Paeng Nepomuceno - World Champion Bowler ^[27]
• Randy Santiago - actor
• Edu Manzano - actor^[27]
• Gian Magdangal - singer
• Mel Villena - musical conductor and composer
• Nix Nolledo - entrepreneur
• Gerardo Ablaza Jr.(DLSC-GS'67, LSGH-HS'71, DLSU'74) - entrepreneur, CEO of Globe Telecom ^[28]
• Brother Bernard Oca FSC (DLSC-GS'67, LSGH-HS'71, DLSU'74)- De La Salle Christian Brother
• Robert John Sobrepena - entrepreneur, CEO of Fil-Estate
• Mike Enriquez(DLSC-GS'64, LSGH-HS'68, DLSU73) - newscaster/VP-GMA Channel 7 ^[29]
• Mike Bilbao (DLSC-GS'64, LSGH-HS'68, DLSU'73) - Captain of the De La Salle Green Archers/PBA Player
• Francis Ong - singer
• Ernest del Rosario - Ramp Model, Athlete (Class '95)
• Eduardo Delos Reyes - entrepreneur
• Victor "Cocoy" Laurel - Internationally acclaimed performer
• Ramon "Montet" Acoymo - Dean of the UP College of Music

1. To avoid confusion, the Green Hills in La Salle Green Hills is spelled using two words despite the name of the village where it is located is spelled as one word (Greenhills, this is why nearby schools located within Greenhills which have their names with the name Greenhills is spelled as such, example is Immaculate Conception Acedemy-Greenhills and O.B. Montessori-Greenhills), the reason for this is because upon establishment of LSGH, "Green Hills" was still spelled as such.^[30][31]

• Official Website
• Old Teachers & Brothers