Nursery, Preschool, Kindergarten & Primary. Ages 1 to 7. McKinley West, Taguig.
A school where children learn because they are happy.
Nursery, Preschool, Kindergarten & Primary. Ages 1 to 7. McKinley West, Taguig.
A school where children learn because they are happy.
40 years in, we still asked the question. The answer was not more. The answer was deeper.
We begin not with subjects, but with the heart. Before a child can learn, she has to trust. We earn it by connection.
With trust, the work goes deep. She lives inside it long enough to make it her own.
But she does not sit at a desk. She plays.
A five-year-old learns to tell time without numbers. Twelve color-coded positions. Four songs. Eight minutes. She reads a clock because she has been inside a clock with her body.
We call it the Clock Dance.
The play is the work.
Creative Play Corner began in May 1986 in Dasmariñas Village, Makati. Three friends believed children learn best through purposeful play: Celine Concepcion Lebron, Cecille Cuna Colina, and Gina Piamonte Tambunting.
We were among the first schools in Manila built that way. Forty years later, the families who came to us in those first years are sending us their children’s children.
“Creative Play Corner’s main concern is the child. We regard each one as a special human being with unique needs.”
The day begins gently. Some children walk in and start. Others settle beside a friend first.
Teachers move through the room noticing who needs a hand, who needs a moment, who is ready to be drawn in.
Class size grows with the child. 8 children at Nursery. 10 at Junior Kinder. 12 at Senior Kinder and above.
Enough for ideas to bounce, build, and surprise. Not so many that any child is lost.
British School Manila recognized us as a pre-British school establishment in 1989. We have held ourselves to that standard ever since.
Our Senior Kinder and Primary programs are recognized by the Philippine Department of Education.
Our Early Years program is registered with the ECCD Council.
We count one, two, and let go at three. The parachute rises. One shining moment. Together.
Throughout the year, school life is filled with shared moments. Filipino Week, when children eat with their hands on banana leaves. Mini Olympics, when six-year-olds cheer for two-year-olds. Christmas, when thirty parents hold colored scarves above their heads so the children look out and see a field of color, not a crowd of faces.
This is how children learn to belong.
Our teachers are collaborative, intuitive, musical, expressive, organized.
After COVID, we rebuilt the curriculum. Four years on, the difference is visible. Simple, and yet deeper.
We teach through experience. The teacher talks less. The children work more.
What the team builds, the children carry.
Our senior teachers have been with us for 26 and 18 years. Our younger team has grown into the method over four years.
Every year, we move forward, finding better ways to continue.
In June 2026, our Bonifacio Global City campus moves home.
Families come together at McKinley West, Taguig. Children, teachers, and parents who shaped CPC into what it is today carry that history with us, into one unified space. 591 square meters. One home for everyone.
A child who hides behind her mother is welcome. A child who runs to the materials is welcome. Each child arrives as herself.
Limited slots remain across all levels for summer and school year 2026–2027.
