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The document outlines the 8th Commencement Rites for the Senior High School Level at the University of Cebu Main for the Academic Year 2024-2025, including details on enrollment for the upcoming academic year. It features the processional, opening remarks, presentation of candidates, awarding of diplomas, and recognition of academic honors and special awards. The ceremony emphasizes the values of innovation, commitment, integrity, respect, and excellence among graduates.

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UC Cebu Valedictorian Speech 2025

The document outlines the 8th Commencement Rites for the Senior High School Level at the University of Cebu Main for the Academic Year 2024-2025, including details on enrollment for the upcoming academic year. It features the processional, opening remarks, presentation of candidates, awarding of diplomas, and recognition of academic honors and special awards. The ceremony emphasizes the values of innovation, commitment, integrity, respect, and excellence among graduates.

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STEM MORNING SESSION Today, we celebrate the 8th Commencement

Rites of the Senior High School Level in the


SPIELS: CLEANLINESS Basic Education Department of the
As we celebrate this special occasion, we University of Cebu Main, for the Academic
kindly request everyone to please keep Year 2024–2025.
your area tidy, dispose of any waste
properly, and help us keep the space To formally start, please stand.
pleasant for all. Ladies and gentlemen, the processional!

SPIELS: ENROLLMENT Please welcome:


Good day, everyone, before we begin the • The Colors
ceremony, we would like to announce that • The University Mace, held by the Basic
enrollment for the upcoming academic year Education Registrar
2025-2026 is now open. • The Members of the Faculty
• The Principal
At UC Senior High School Department, we are • The University Administrators
offering the following TRACKS: THE • The University Chancellor Ms. Candice Gotianuy
ACADEMIC TRACK, which includes programs • And the University President Atty. Augusto W. Go
in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics),
ABM (Accountancy, Business, and Management),
MC: Please remain standing for the singing
GAS (General Academic Strand),
of the Philippine National Anthem.
and HUMSS (Humanities and Social Sciences);
next, THE TECHNICAL-VOCATIONAL TRACK
including programs in Cookery, Travel Services,
and Computer Programming, and THE ARTS MC: You may now be seated.
AND DESIGN TRACK, with a major in Theater
___________________________________
Arts Production.
___________________________________
Be part of a community that values
will now open the Graduation Ceremony.
students’ excellence—because here at the
University of Cebu, you can’t spell success
Let us give _____ a round of applause.
without UC.

OPENING REMARKS
PRE-EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT SAC: On this ______ day of MAY in the year of our Lord
MC: Good afternoon, everyone. In 2025, in the presence of our candidates, faculty, parents of
three minutes, we will commence with the the graduates, and their friends, the 8th Commencement
Exercises of the University of Cebu Senior High School
graduation rites. Candidates, please wear Level is hereby
your graduation caps. officially declared in session. To all here present, we
extend our most cordial welcome.

MC: Ladies and gentlemen, our warmest


felicitations! Welcome to the 8th MC: Thank you, ____________________.
Commencement Rites of the Science, At this juncture, Dr. Abelardo T. Tejo Jr., our
Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Senior High School Principal, will now
Strand of the University of Cebu Main present the candidates for graduation.
Campus, Senior High School Department.
Principal: By virtue of the Authority vested in me as
the principal of the Senior High School level in the Basic
MC: Members of the faculty, beloved Education Department, I have the honor to present to
parents, proud graduates, ladies and you the ________ candidates for
gentlemen—good afternoon! graduation, with ______ males and ______ females.
These candidates have
satisfactorily completed the requirements of MC: In today’s ceremony,
the Senior High School Program, as prescribed by the
Department of Education and the University of Cebu Main
MRS. TERESITA VILLAHERMOSA, basic
Campus. education registrar, will now award these
students in recognition of their continuous
and successful stay in the University of
MC: Cebu Main Campus from ELEMENTARY
__________________________________, up to SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL level.
___________________________________ A loyalty award is hereby given to the
following students:
will now accept the candidates.
(Morning session only) MC:
VC: By virtue of the Authority vested in me We shall now recognize the students who
by University of Cebu and by the have excelled and made it into the
Department of Education of the Republic of top 10 of the graduating batch. They will be
the Philippines, I accept the candidates receiving the esteemed President’s
presented with all the rights and privileges Medallion. The awardees’ name will be
pertaining thereunto. Congratulations! read by Mr. Jan Paul Ibis, chair of the
Senior High School Honors Committee.

MC: Thank you, _______________ and Dr.


Tejo. Graduates, please be seated. MC: For the honors achieved and awards
received through hard work and stringent
academic pursuit, let us give these
awardees, a big round of applause!
MC: ______________________________,
Congratulations!
__________________________________,
together with Dr. Abelardo T. Tejo Jr., Senior MC: We shall now commence with the
High School Principal, will now award the awarding of diplomas to the graduates.
graduates with academic honors. The ___________________________________
honorees are as follows: ___________________________________
• With highest honors
together with Dr. Abelardo T. Tejo Jr.,
• With high honors
Senior High School Principal, will award
• With honors
the diplomas.

The names of the honorees will be read by


Morning session: The names of the
___________________________________ graduates will be read by
___________________________________ ________________________ and
________________________, senior high
Kindly reserve your applause until all school instructors.
students have received their accolades.
Thank you. Kindly reserve the applause until all of the
students have received their diplomas.
MC: Now, we will be awarding these Thank you!
students for their Outstanding
Performance and Special Awards.

The names of the awardees will be read by


MS. MARJORIE FERNANDEZ, senior high
school instructor.
MC: To the graduates, once again, MC: The Commencement Exercises of the
congratulations! University of Cebu Main Campus
Senior High School level has now
*Morning session: At this point, allow me finally come to a close.
to call on __________________________,
with highest honors from GR. 12 STEM Allow us to express our deepest gratitude to
______, to give the words of appreciation in the esteemed parents, benefactors, and
behalf of the graduates. Let us give _____ a friends of our Graduates. We are truly
round of applause! honored for having entrusted to the
University of Cebu the education of these
MC: Thank you, ___________! students.

And to the Graduates of Class 2025,


*Morning session: The graduates will now continue to live the core values of the
recite the pledge of loyalty to be led by University of Cebu:
_________________________, with high
honors, from GR. 12 STEM __________. • be Innovative to be at par with the best;
• have the Commitment to be of service to
others;
Graduates, please stand. Please raise • Align yourselves with what is right, true,
your right hand and repeat after me. and just;
(Pledge of Loyalty). • Respect others always; and
• Excel in everything that you do.

MC: Ladies and gentlemen, the graduates In short, I-CARE.


in their graduation song entitled And always remember, basta UC Pri, UCan!
_____________________!
With sincere and heartfelt sentiments from
MC: May I request everyone to please your UC family, thank you, Graduates!
stand and join the graduates in the singing
of the University of Cebu Hymn. God bless and Congratulations!

MC: Please remain standing for the exit of To this assembly,


colors. I give you the Class of 2025!

Ladies and gentlemen, the recessional!


STEM AFTERNOON SESSION Today, we celebrate the 8th Commencement
Rites of the Senior High School Level in the
SPIELS: CLEANLINESS Basic Education Department of the
As we celebrate this special occasion, we University of Cebu Main, for the Academic
kindly request everyone to please keep Year 2024–2025.
your area tidy, dispose of any waste
properly, and help us keep the space To formally start, please stand.
pleasant for all. Ladies and gentlemen, the processional!

SPIELS: ENROLLMENT Please welcome:


Good day, everyone, before we begin the • The Colors
ceremony, we would like to announce that • The University Mace, held by the Basic
enrollment for the upcoming academic year Education Registrar
2025-2026 is now open. • The Members of the Faculty
• The Principal
At UC Senior High School Department, we are • The University Administrators
offering the following TRACKS: THE • The University Chancellor Ms. Candice Gotianuy
ACADEMIC TRACK, which includes programs • And the University President Atty. Augusto W. Go
in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics),
ABM (Accountancy, Business, and Management),
MC: Please remain standing for the singing
GAS (General Academic Strand),
of the Philippine National Anthem.
and HUMSS (Humanities and Social Sciences);
next, THE TECHNICAL-VOCATIONAL TRACK
including programs in Cookery, Travel Services,
and Computer Programming, and THE ARTS MC: You may now be seated.
AND DESIGN TRACK, with a major in Theater
___________________________________
Arts Production.
___________________________________
Be part of a community that values
will now open the Graduation Ceremony.
students’ excellence—because here at the
University of Cebu, you can’t spell success
Let us give _____ a round of applause.
without UC.

OPENING REMARKS
PRE-EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT SAC: On this ______ day of MAY in the year of our Lord
MC: Good evening, everyone. In 2025, in the presence of our candidates, faculty, parents of
three minutes, we will commence with the the graduates, and their friends, the 8th Commencement
Exercises of the University of Cebu Senior High School
graduation rites. Candidates, please wear Level is hereby
your graduation caps. officially declared in session. To all here present, we
extend our most cordial welcome.

MC: Ladies and gentlemen, our warmest


felicitations! Welcome to the 8th MC: Thank you, ____________________.
Commencement Rites of the Science, At this juncture, Dr. Abelardo T. Tejo Jr., our
Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Senior High School Principal, will now
Strand of the University of Cebu Main present the candidates for graduation.
Campus, Senior High School Department.
Principal: By virtue of the Authority vested in me as
the principal of the Senior High School level in the Basic
MC: Members of the faculty, beloved Education Department, I have the honor to present to
parents, proud graduates, ladies and you the ________ candidates for
gentlemen—good evening! graduation, with ______ males and ______ females.
These candidates have
satisfactorily completed the requirements of MC: In today’s ceremony,
the Senior High School Program, as prescribed by the
Department of Education and the University of Cebu Main
MRS. TERESITA VILLAHERMOSA, basic
Campus. education registrar, will now award these
students in recognition of their continuous
and successful stay in the University of
MC: Cebu Main Campus from ELEMENTARY
__________________________________, up to SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL level.
___________________________________ A loyalty award is hereby given to the
following students:
will now accept the candidates.

VC: By virtue of the Authority vested in me


by University of Cebu and by the
Department of Education of the Republic of MC: For the honors achieved and awards
the Philippines, I accept the candidates received through hard work and stringent
presented with all the rights and privileges academic pursuit, let us give these
pertaining thereunto. Congratulations! awardees, a big round of applause!
Congratulations!

MC: Thank you, _______________ and Dr.


Tejo. Graduates, please be seated. MC: We shall now commence with the
awarding of diplomas to the graduates.
___________________________________

MC: ______________________________, ___________________________________

__________________________________, together with Dr. Abelardo T. Tejo Jr.,


Senior High School Principal, will award
together with Dr. Abelardo T. Tejo Jr., Senior
the diplomas.
High School Principal, will now award the
graduates with academic honors. The
honorees are as follows:
Afternoon session: The names of the
• With highest honors
graduates will be read by
• With high honors
________________________ and
• With honors
________________________, senior high

The names of the honorees will be read by school instructors.

___________________________________
Kindly reserve the applause until all of the
___________________________________
students have received their diplomas.
Thank you!
Kindly reserve your applause until all
students have received their accolades.
Thank you.

MC: Now, we will be awarding these


students for their Outstanding
Performance and Special Awards.

The names of the awardees will be read by


MS. MARJORIE FERNANDEZ, senior high
school instructor.
MC: To the graduates, once again, MC: The Commencement Exercises of the
congratulations! University of Cebu Main Campus
Senior High School level has now
*Afternoon session: At this point, allow me finally come to a close.
to call on __________________________,
with highest honors from GR. 12 STEM Allow us to express our deepest gratitude to
______, to give the words of appreciation in the esteemed parents, benefactors, and
behalf of the graduates. Let us give _____ a friends of our Graduates. We are truly
round of applause! honored for having entrusted to the
University of Cebu the education of these
MC: Thank you, ___________! students.

And to the Graduates of Class 2025,


* Afternoon session: The graduates will continue to live the core values of the
now recite the pledge of loyalty to be led by University of Cebu:
_________________________, with high
honors, from GR. 12 STEM __________. • be Innovative to be at par with the best;
• have the Commitment to be of service to
others;
Graduates, please stand. Please raise • Align yourselves with what is right, true,
your right hand and repeat after me. and just;
(Pledge of Loyalty). • Respect others always; and
• Excel in everything that you do.

MC: Ladies and gentlemen, the graduates In short, I-CARE.


in their graduation song entitled And always remember, basta UC Pri, UCan!
_____________________!
With sincere and heartfelt sentiments from
MC: May I request everyone to please your UC family, thank you, Graduates!
stand and join the graduates in the singing
of the University of Cebu Hymn. God bless and Congratulations!

MC: Please remain standing for the exit of To this assembly,


colors. I give you the Class of 2025!

Ladies and gentlemen, the recessional!

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Ceremonial spiels at the University of Cebu function as structured guides that set the tone of the graduation process. They are crucial for organizing the sequence of events, from welcoming guests to announcing the order of proceedings, such as the processional, awarding of diplomas, and speeches. These spiels ensure that the event maintains a formal and respectful atmosphere, effectively marking a significant academic milestone while ensuring all participants understand their roles and responsibilities .

Beyond academic performance, the University of Cebu's commencement ceremony celebrates student achievements through awards such as the loyalty award, which honors students who have remained at the university from elementary through senior high school, and the recognition of students who have consistently excelled by making it into the top 10 of their graduating batch. These awards acknowledge both commitment to learning and sustained academic success .

Officiating figures at the University of Cebu's commencement ceremony—including the University Chancellor, President, Principal, and Faculty Members—play pivotal roles. Their involvement underscores institutional authority and adds ceremonial gravitas. The presence of high-ranking officials like the University Chancellor and President signifies formal endorsement and recognition of the graduates' accomplishments, while the Principal and Faculty Members highlight academic integrity and the shared journey of educators and students. This collective presence reaffirms the university's educational mission and community values .

The commencement exercises at UC's Senior High School reflect its educational philosophy by emphasizing comprehensive development and recognition beyond mere academic metrics. The ceremony includes awards for academic honors as well as special awards for outstanding performance and loyalty. Moreover, the event structure, showcasing various tracks of education including STEM and Humanities, underscores UC's commitment to preparing students for diverse futures, promoting a holistic educational approach that values academic, personal, and communal development .

The University of Cebu uses its graduation ceremony as an opportunity to reinforce its institutional branding and core values. This is evident in the repeated emphasis on their motto 'basta UC Pri, UCan!' and the articulation of values like Innovation, Commitment, Alignment with just causes, Respect, and Excellence (I-CARE). These messaging elements are strategically delivered throughout the ceremony speeches and program notes, embedding the university's brand ideologies while nurturing a sense of pride and loyalty among graduates and attendees .

Announcing the enrollment for the upcoming academic year during the graduation ceremony is strategically important for the University of Cebu. It capitalizes on the presence of a diverse audience, including potential new students and their families, thus effectively promoting the academic programs available. This timing also reinforces the university's commitment to growth and continuity in education, leveraging the celebratory atmosphere to encourage enrollment and engagement with the institution .

The loyalty award presented at the graduation ceremony aligns with the University of Cebu's values and mission by recognizing the long-term commitment and allegiance of students who have remained with the institution from elementary through senior high school. This acknowledgment supports the mission of fostering a sustained educational relationship, showcasing the university as a nurturing environment that values dedication, perseverance, and institutional pride .

The University of Cebu structures its Senior High School academic offerings into various tracks: The Academic Track, which includes programs in STEM, ABM, GAS, and HUMSS; the Technical-Vocational Track offering Cookery, Travel Services, and Computer Programming; and the Arts and Design Track with a major in Theater Arts Production. These tracks provide students the opportunity to specialize in fields that align with their interests and career aspirations, thereby enhancing their skills and employability .

By involving parents and benefactors in the commencement ceremony, the University of Cebu intends to strengthen the community bonds and emphasize the collaborative effort behind educational success. Acknowledging the support roles of families and benefactors honors their contributions and fosters a sense of shared accomplishment and partnership in the educational journey, thereby enhancing community ties and showing gratitude for their ongoing support .

The University of Cebu aims to instill the core values of being Innovative, demonstrating Commitment to serving others, aligning with what is right, true, and just, respecting others always, and excelling in all endeavors. These values, summarized as 'I-CARE,' are expected to guide the graduates in their personal and professional lives, ensuring that they are not only successful individuals but also contribute positively to society .

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