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About the School |
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Don Bosco School , Udonthani,
is a government-subsidized private school,
owned by the Salesians of St.John Bosco (SDB),
a Catholic religious order.
The school was founded in Udonthani in 1957.
Don Bosco now serves over 2,500 girls and boys
from kindergarten (3-year-olds)
to Upper Secondary level (18-year-olds).
The staff include 3 Salesian priests and 130 teachers. |
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Programs
The school offers the common programs of the Ministry of Education with an optional special program in which students have additional classes of English and Chinese, taught by qualified native speakers.
School Terms
The first semester is from the middle of May till the end of September and the second semester from the last week of October till the
first week of March.
The school also offers 2 optional short summer courses, one in March and one in April.
These optional summer courses admit also students of other schools.
Year 10-12 also have the compulsory 1-month summer term, from 16th
April to 15th May.
Applications
Applications for Kindergarten 1 are submitted in January, for Mathayom 1 and 4 (Year 7 and 10) in March.
For Kindergarten 1 children must be 3 years old in May of the same year. Exact dates for the submission of applications appear on School News page.
School Fees (In rough figures) Kindergarten : 8,000 baht/semester (including food)
Lower Primary (Year 1-3): 6,000 (including food)
Upper Primary (Year 4-6): 4,000
Lower Secondary (Year 7-9): 5,000
Upper Secondary (Year 10-12): 11,000 (including Saturday classes) |
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Life of St.John Bosco
(an extract from www.donbosco.jp/english/donbosco/index.html)
 On
January 31st 1888, in Torino, Italy, a priest named
"Don Bosco", who had a charismatic presence at that
time, left this world.
The educational work which he started became of a universal
scale today and has spread to more than 100 countries in the
world. The "Preventive Education" draws attention
inside and outside the Church, and gives many suggestions to
mission schools and to the educational world.
And today those who have succeeded and maintain his spirit are
the "Salesian Society" and the "Salesian
Familiy". |
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 The Period
of Don Bosco
 "Don
Bosco",( properly named "Saint Giovanni Bosco")
who is called by the Catholic Church "Father of the youth,
The Mentor of Catholic Education" was born on August 16th
1815, in a poor farming family in the village of Becchi, near
the city of Castelnuovo in the region of Piemonte in northern
Italy.
It was after Napoleon, when the political situation was
unstable and the Church was confronted with the government in
the unification of Italy. The labor movement grew more intense
because of the Industrial Revolution. |
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The
beginning of the activities
 It
is said that his activities began on December 8th
1841. On that day, being a new priest, Don Bosco met the first
poor boy.
In those days many boys left their farm and went to big cities
to find jobs. Don Bosco found them hanging around, committing
crimes with their face clouded. In the central market, there
was a "market of young workers". People from
building sites and factory owners used to employ boys, forcing
them to work 12 to16 hours a day for a half Lira. It was said
that the life expectancy of the workers in Torino was about 19
years old. This was indeed the consequence brought about by
the "Industrial Revolution". Subsequently, several
years later, communist movement started.
Don Bosco even visited prison. He wrote, "I was terrified
to see many healthy talented boys, aged 12 to 18, doing
nothing, bitten by lice and fleas, without physical and
spiritual food." He made up his mind to devote his life
to save these boys. He started a new style of educational work
called "Oratorio" At the beginning, there was no
fixed place. However, within a year, several hundreds of
students came to gather up, attracted by Don Bosco. He himself
became a pillar for the boys. The place he borrowed, became a
playground, a night school and a place to make friends and to
pray. But these gatherings were looked at cold-heartedly by
the neighborhoods and Don Bosco had to move from place to
place during 5 years. The municipal authorities and even some
people inside the church looked at him as dangerous.
In 1846, he acquired at last a humble barn. This became the
birthplace of the world-wide activities. With the help of
volunteers, a dormitory, a school for vocational education and
a school of general course were established at "Oratorio" |
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The
foundation of the Salesian Society
To develop this activity, Don Bosco created a religious
organization called "Salesian Society" His students
became the first members and collaborators. The name of the
organization was "Society of Saint Francis of Sales"
It was so called because this Saint was cheerful and
warmhearted.
In 1874, the Church has officially recognized this society.
The way of education Don Bosco adopted from the beginning was
named "Preventive Education" and it became the
educational concept of the Salesian Society. |
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A person
like Mother Teresa
 Don
Bosco's work called forth big echo among the people of those
days. There were requests from many foreign countries for
establishing similar organization. For this reason, with the
help of God and kindness of people, he himself appealed
energetically for help to people.
In February, 1883, Don Bosco was not in good health, but he
traveled all around France.and stayed in Paris for four weeks.
Even Victor Hugo, author of the great novel "Les
Miserables", visited Don Bosco. The newspaper "Le
Figaro" wrote that "In front of the house where Don
Bosco stayed, coaches lined up all day during a week."
When he preached at La Madeleine, although he could not speak
French well, the church was overflowed with people. Newspapers
wrote that "even a king would not be so warmly welcomed"
If you see a picture of those days, you will see him very
tired in his face but he attracted many people,as does Mother
Teresa today. Yet, being modest, he said to Father Rua, in the
train on the way back; "Father Rua, do you remember? the
small house in Becchi. I lived in that poor house with my
mother. We were farmers with only a small field and two cows.
If the leading figures of Paris knew that they welcomed such a
farmer from a village, what will they think?"
One politician said,"If he was not a priest but a
politician, a scholar or an enterpriser, he would have been
exceptionally outstanding, not only in Italy but also in whole
Europe.
But he was lucky he was a priest, because he is still "someone
of the present time", not "someone of the past".
On January 31st 1888, he went to heaven when he was
72 years old. The Church admitted the great educator's high
virtue and praised him as "Saint Giovanni Bosco, "Father
of the youth, the Mentor of Catholic Education." |
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The
biography of Don Bosco
"the Biography of Don Bosco" is published in many
countries of the world and there are more than 1000 different
versions. Moreover, publications telling directly about his
spiritual life and his way of education number about 30000. |
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The
autobiography by Don Bosco
You must read this book. The exact title is "Memorie dell'Oratorio
di S. Francesco di Sales from 1815 to 1855" Don Bosco
started to write it by the order of Pope Pio IX at the age of
58. It is a story book about his first 40 years.
However this book was not published for many years and was
left untouched in a storage place of Salesian Society for 73
years. It was because he only wrote it as his teachings for
the children around him, so he has ordered not to publish it.
.But in 1946, it was published as internal materials.
Afterwards, it was opened to the public. As he was full of
humour, he made lessons into pleasant stories. Some of the
episodes are surely fun and amusing. We can imagine Don Bosco
enjoying and smiling.
The book contents true history but it is not a sort of
photograph nor record. He added his explanation and his
thoughts, in which we can always find his consideration for
the education. It was for teaching and leading his children.
In 1983, in order to introduce the true story of Don Bosco and
to put the data in order and to study them in earnest, the
head of the Salesian Society in Rome had established the
"Research Institute of the History of Don Bosco. |
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The
chronological table of Don Bosco
| 1815 |
August 16th he was born in Becchi. |
| 1817 |
May 11th he lost his father. His family
became even poorer. |
| 1823 |
He dreamt about teaching children in future. |
1831
-35 |
He lived in a lodging in Chieri. He went to junior
high and high school, working for school expenses. |
1835
-41 |
He studied in a seminary in Chieri.
June 5th 1841 he became a priest named Don
Bosco.
November 3rd he entered in a priest
training school in Torino.
December 8th he met the first boy and
starts "Oratorio".
Within several months, hundreds of boys gather. They
moved around to find a place to settle down. |
| 1846 |
April 12th he bought a humble barn.
"Oratorio" became stable.
He got ill by overworking but escaped death by
miracle. He was told to lie quietly.
November 3rd he took his mother back to
Torino |
| 1847 |
May he opened a dormitory for poor boys. |
| 1850 |
He created a mutual help association for laborers |
| 1852 |
He constructed the church of Saint Francisco Salesio |
| 1853 |
He started publishing the monthly "Letture
Cattoliche" |
| 1854 |
His students wished to be like Don Bosco and he
elaborated a tentative plan of the Salesians. He started
a book binding school. |
| 1855 |
He started a junior high school. |
| 1856 |
He established a school for wood workers. |
| 1858 |
He talked to Pope Pio IX about the plan of a
monastery.
He continued to make trips to Rome about 20 times
before he died. |
| 1859 |
He formally established the Salesian Society |
| 1860 |
His student Michael Rua became the first Salesian
Priest. |
| 1861 |
He established a school for printing. |
| 1862 |
He started a mechanical course. |
| 1863 |
He built the first school outside of Torino in
Mirabello.
Subsequently, he built many others. |
| 1864 |
With only half a Lira in his purse, he started
constructing the
Basilica of Mary help of Christians |
| 1868 |
He accomplished the Basilica of Mary help of
Christians and he
cerebrated the Contribution.Ceremony |
| 1871 |
August 5th he helped found the 'Figlie di
Maria Ausiliatrice' religious order for women. |
| 1874 |
April 13th Salesian Society was admitted
in Rome and got under the
direct control of the 'Societa di Diritto Pontificio'. |
| 1875 |
November 11th He sent the first missionaries
to South America. |
| 1876 |
He created the third cooperator's group, "Cooperatori
Salesiani".
He wrote a thesis about the education of boys and
girls "Preventive
Education" |
| 1877 |
The first missionary group from 'Figlie di Maria
Ausiliatrice' was sent
out. |
| 1880 |
Pope Leo XIII wished Don Bosco to establish the
Cathedral Sacred
Heart in Rome. |
| 1885 |
He dreams about the development of the Saleian
Society |
| 1887 |
He made the last trip to Rome for the celebration of
the
consacration of the Sacred Heart Cathedral. |
| 1888 |
January 31st he ascended to heaven. |
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Brief
informaiton in the Chinese language |
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