University of the Philippines Preparatory High School

University of the Philippines Preparatory High School U.P. Prep was founded in 1954 with the purpose of preparing students for tertiary education. Origina When the first U.P.

Prep School teachers and students came to the Padre Faura campus in 1954, it was a unique point in time. The students were there because of parents that thought that a fresh, new approach to education would be best for their sons and daughters. The teachers had been recruited to try out what was an untested educational experiment. These mostly young teachers had gone through the trauma of the Seco

nd World War, but were now dedicating themselves to educating students born during that war. The students’ parents still talked nostalgically of “peacetime”, a golden age in their memory, of Manila before the war. In the mid-50s, long before the tumult of major political upheavals to come, everything seemed possible — maybe we were on the road back to that golden “peacetime”. The Second World War was long gone (although there were still bombed-out ruins close to UP Prep) and the threat earlier in the decade that the government might be overthrown had largely abated. There was room then to be innovative, time enough even to be optimistic. It was in this setting that the UP Prep was established. We were in the first class, already high school juniors — there was no precedent for how things should be done. Science labs were being tried out for the first time. The curriculum content was highly flexible; teachers had to experiment to make things work. Classes were freewheeling and we thought we had license to push boundaries. It was this eclectic mix of teachers and students, the unpredictable and unforeseen small interactions between these unique personalities that made U.P. Prep the premier high school that it was.

- Toto Olivera '56

18/02/2024

Rock Prepian Rock with Roger Rigor UPPrep'71

16/12/2023

Happy Sixtieth Wedding Anniversary to Oriel J Magno!

Prepians Quarterly Fellowship Lunch, June 2023
05/06/2023

Prepians Quarterly Fellowship Lunch, June 2023

Happy Birthday, Cicero Pascual! UPPprep'72
10/03/2023

Happy Birthday, Cicero Pascual! UPPprep'72

11/01/2023

Our quarterly fellowship is back!
The UP Prep quarterly lunch-fellowship will resume on Monday, February 6, 2023 starting at 11 a.m at the Vikings, SM Jazz Makati.
Please forward to all classmates, Prepians, and guests!
Happy New Year!

Designed by Juan Alfonso Oñate, UPPrep'73
18/11/2022

Designed by Juan Alfonso Oñate, UPPrep'73

30/03/2012

U.P. Prep was founded in 1954 with the purpose of preparing students for tertiary education. Origina

04/02/2012

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