SDS Dela Peña; 4 - PSDS Valmores

CONGRATULATIONS

Completers and Graduates of SY 2020-2021

“If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.” – Nora Roberts

Your graduation today is a milestone that marks how far you have travelled and what significant change have you made in your life. It is an important milestone as it signifies the acquisition of necessary competence, character and credentials which allow you to confidently move to the next phase of your educational journey.

I take pride in your achievement which has become even more meaningful as the final stretch of your journey has been arduous. Each of you now exemplifies endurance and flexibility which have long been considered as unique Filipino character. Both folkloric and historical, the Filipino is likened to a bamboo that bends with the wind and can survive a storm.

More than resilience, we have strengthened our Bayanihan spirit. I commend the school officials, teachers and personnel for making everything possible from writing and printing modules to ensuring that new modalities work for our learners. I also express my appreciation to the parents for playing unprecedented roles especially when we transitioned to modular learning in the learners’ learning spaces at home. Their participation to educating our children has been remarkable. I also express my gratitude to our government officials and stakeholders for providing us the resources that we needed and for giving us hope and encouragement to continue doing our job.

To our young graduates, you will be written in the history for you emerged from unique circumstances. Step forward with pride and confidence. Pride for completing and hurdling a specific level of education and confidence for the assurance that you have become 21st Century learners who are competent, resilient, and independent. Warmest congratulations on your achievement.

Graduation, completion & moving up ceremonies are among the occasions that are very significant & remarkable, taking another milestone in academic achievements.

My warmest felicitations to all proud parents who don’t just wish to have accomplishments for their children but pray for success in every endeavor that can fulfill every dreams.

To the graduates & completers who rejoiced after reaching the direction they need to attain, teachers who gave their extraordinary abilities & so resilient in doing things just to deliver what’s best for the learners even in this so called new normal world, my warmest congratulations to all of you.

As you step forward, it all begun with a challenge that brings you where you are now. It became the wind beneath your wings as you continue soaring high, and without it, you cannot reach that far.

As we look back, it seems that it is so difficult, things were complicated & thought that we cannot make it. But amidst the adversities in the time of pandemic, which we thought it is getting harder & heavier, we realized then, that at the end of the tunnel, there we see light – a future that awaits. We will continue believing that a quality education can lead to many opportunities that can bring forth joy & success.

Let us continue pursuing our plans & making things happen. Do not stop just dreaming, but doing what you dream can make you what you want to be. Hope your dreams can take you to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the windows of your opportunities, & to the most special places your heart has ever known.

God bless the works of our hands.

Kalidad ng Edukasyon Lalong Patatagin sa Gitna ng Pandemya. ( Strengthening the Quality of Education Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic)