CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

The educational program of the Cavite School of St. Mark takes into account the total formation of the learner. It gives equal importance to the different aspects of the person's growth and maturity: moral-spiritual, intellectual, psycho-emotional, socio-cultural and physical. The academic program enriches the minimum learning competencies required by the Department of Education through a formative and integrative curriculum that ensures a balanced and wholesome development for every learner.

The development of the different aspects in the academic program is enhanced in the different subjects as follows:

The Cavite School of St. Mark implements and enriches the Restructed Basic Education Curriculum of the Department of Education. The Restructed Curriculum focuses on the basics of reading, writing, arithmetic, science and patriotism. Values are integral to all subject areas. Being a private educational institution its implementation is within the Philosophy of he School and geared towards the achievement and fulfillment of the Mission and Vision of the school.

In its efforts to develop students who could compete and face the challenges in the national and global scenario, Computer Education is offered from Nursery to 4th year high school. The school also continues to pursue a MATHEMATICS ORIENTED CURRICULUM in high school having required Elective subjects in Mathematics taught 60 minutes daily namely:

The learning areas in the grade school are as follows: English, Filipino, Mathematics, Science and Health and Makabayan. English is a learning area has two (2) components: Reading and Language. These are taught separately.

Makabayan as a learning area has the following components: For Grades 1-3: Sibika at Kultura, Computer and MAPES (Music, Art, Physical Education and Scouting). For Grades 4-6: HEKASI (Heograpiya, Kasaysayan at Sibika), HELE (Home Economics and LIvelihood Education) with Computer, and MAPES (Music, Art, Physical Education and Scouting).

The learning areas for high school are English, Mathematics, Science, Filipino, Elective and Makabayan.

The Academic Program of the different learning areas consist of the following:

Lvl	ENGLISH Unit Credit: 1.5	MATH   Unit Credit: 1.5	ELECTIVE Unit Credit: 1.5	SCIENCE    Unit Credit: 1.5	FILIPINO Unit Credit: 1.5
Yr I	Phil. Literature	Elem. Algebra	Business Mathematics	Integrated or General Science	Wika at Panitik Ibong Adarna
Yr II	Afro-Asian Lit	Intermediate Algebra	Statistics	Biology	Wika at Panitik Florante at Laura
Yr III	Anglo-American Lit.	Geometry	Trigonometry	Chemistry	Wika at Panitik Noli Me Tangere
Yr IV	World Literature	Advanced Algebra	Analytics Geo. and Intro. to Calculus	Physics	Wika at Panitik    El Filibusterismo

The components of Makabayan for high school are: Social Studies; Computer with TEPP (Technolohiya at Edukasyong Pantahanan at Pangkabuhayan/ Technology and Home Economics and Livelihood Education); MAPEHS (Music, Arts, Physical Education, Health and Scouting / CAT); and Values Education.