School Spirit

PCHS School Seal

Our school seal is circular in shape. The concentric circles mean rootedness in the same center, Jesus Christ (the cross dividing the inner circle into four quadrants). This rootedness in Christ is central in unity – the oneness in community and mission of living out and promoting Ignatian values.

The seal’s color blue is attributed to the Blessed Virgin Mary whose example of faithfulness in the history of salvation is an aspiration and model for every PCHSian.

The cross dividing the quadrants denotes Christ himself whose identity, life and mission is central to every PCHSian. The centrality of Christ is the source of unity amid the diversity of the community. This central cross, too, serves as the main element that connects this new school to the school’s original logo which is simply a cross circumscribed by two concentric circles within which the school name, province, and the year of foundation are written.

The name of the school, Pangantucan Community High School, with its founding date in 1968 and its location in the province of Bukidnon inscribed in the outer circle is also in reference to the school logo that precedes this school seal.

The innermost circle is divided into four quadrants:

The first quadrant (top left) contains the horse and a mountain range, both symbols of Pangantucan. Representing wisdom and strength, the horse is the official symbol of Pangantucan. The mountainrepresents Mt. Kalatungan, the fifth highest mountain in the Philippines located in Mendis, Pangantucan.
The second quadrant (top right) depicts the mountain, sun, grains and agricultural land. This signifies PCHS’s appreciation of the bounty of Bukidnon and a challenge for stewardship of such bounty. This challenge is articulated in PCHS’s vision for herself: to be a premiere agricultural school in Bukidnon.
The third quadrant (bottom left) shows the letters IHS under a sunburst, and the book, torch, and laurel. This quadrant illustrates Jesuit education. The letters IHS, a monogram representing the first three letters of Jesus in Greek, contained in what looked like a sunburst is a common Jesuit logo. The book, torch, and laurel are standard symbols for education. The book symbolizes knowledge. The torch means the ability to share the light with others as “men and women for others,” and a reference to PCHS’s motto of setting the world on fire with God’s love and light. The laurel indicates excellence, the more, or in Ignatian parlance, magis.
The fourth quadrant (bottom right) portrays two wolves-and-pot superimposed on a 7-stripes background that represent the generosity and courage of those who share in the spirituality of St. Ignatius of Loyola. The wolves and pot, in Spanish, lobos y olla, is in reference to the house of Loyola. Legend has it that the family of Loyola would often leave extra food in a pot for the hungry wolves to feed on. The seven stripes refer to the stripes awarded by the King of Spain to the seven Onaz brothers, Ignatius’ ancestors, for their bravery.

Our Philosophy of Education

Pangantucan Community High School, Inc. is one of the two Jesuit mission schools in the Philippines. As such, she carries with her the responsibility of forming the youth in the Filipino context using a Catholic approach in the Ignatian and Jesuit tradition with the vision of producing men and women in the service of others especially that of her very own locality.

Filipino, Agricultural Context

Our philosophy of education is grounded in the reality and context of contemporary Philippines and its demands in the future. Situated in a largely agricultural province of Bukidnon, the 6th poorest province of the Philippines, we are aware of the challenges our students and their families face every day. We are committed to provide affordable yet quality secondary education that will equip our students with skills and capabilities that will meet the demands of the society. We are committed to maximize the K to 12 Philippine educational system of basic education in synergy with the Dynamic Learning Program, a revolutionary, innovative, low-cost and effective basic education [teaching strategy designed] under Philippine conditions of great scarcity and daunting poverty.Being blessed with rich agricultural soil and a conducive climate for agriculture, we are committed to promote sustainable agriculture among the youth of Bukidnon as a means towards alleviating poverty through agriculture-inclined education, initiatives, and innovations.

Catholic Approach

As a Catholic institution, we ascribe to the Catholic Philosophy of life which recognizes that every human being has an eternal destiny as well as an earthly existence. Education is a preparation of the whole man for life here and hereafter. Therefore, all men of every race, condition and age since they enjoy the dignity of a human being have an inalienable right to education, that is in keeping with their ultimate goal, their ability, their sex and the culture and tradition of their country and also in harmony with their fraternal association with other people in fostering the true unity and peace on earth. For a true education aims at the formation of the human person in the pursuit of his ultimate end for the good of the societies of which as man, he is a member and whose obligation as an adult he will share.

We further believe that education is a means of sharing in God’s continuing work of creation and salvation today. Being made sharers in God’s creating and re-creating work among teenagers, we take it as a responsibility of journeying with them as they seek life’s meaning and value and form their own person during such a defining developmental stage of every human being. By guiding and forming the youth intellectually, physically, morally, spiritually, and psycho-emotionally, we draw out and hone their gifts and endowments and transform their weaknesses into possible strengths that will lead them towards realizing their full potentials as human beings.

Jesuit and Ignatian Way of Life

Faithful to the spirituality of our founding Jesuit fathers, PCHS strives to live out the Ignatian spirituality. We strive to find God in all things and recognize and appreciate the diversity and uniqueness of each person as gifts and care for him/her accordingly. We aspire for the more, the Magis, – to always seek to do the most loving thing for God’s greater glory. We practice discernment in order to seek out and respond to God’s will for the school, the community, and the young who are entrusted to our care. Recognizing the synergy that can only come from diversity, we promote Jesuit and lay collaboration in all our endeavors in the spirit of the mission partnership of Bl. Diego Luis San Vitores, SJ and his lay partner San Pedro Calungsod, on whose patronage the school chapel is entrusted.

Missionary Nature

We recognize this privilege of sharing in God’s creative power of forming the young as a responsibility molding them into persons-for-others. Borne out of the generosity of benefactors, PCHS believes that her mission is not just for herself or solely for all the young who are entrusted to her care. As an expression of gratitude for the many men and women who made PCHS what she is today, we pay it forward to the generations of students who will be entrusted to us, the Church, the country, and the world. The school’s motto, Ite, inflammate omnia, best encapsulates the missionary nature of our school. By forming the young into Christ-centered, competent, and conscientious young men and women, we prepare them to care for creation and be of service to the bigger community and country. We strive to ignite the passion of God’s love in our community so that we may set the world on fire with that same love of God.

Vision, Mission, Objectives, Values and Motto

Vision:

To be a leading agricultural high school forming competent life-long learners who ignite passion for God’s creation, respect for diversity,

and fidelity to the Catholic, Ignatian tradition

Mission:

Pangantucan Community High School is a Filipino, Catholic, Jesuit mission school that develops competent, committed and conscientious learners

through holistic formation, academic excellence, and agricultural innovation.

Objectives:

To create a healthy, peaceful and inclusive learning environment
To provide opportunities for physical, psycho-social, spiritual, and ecological wellness through values formation programs and services
To expose students to advanced and relevant learning tools and technologies that are adaptive to global standards
To promote agriculture as a means towards healthy and sustainable living

Core Values:

Christ-centeredness, Competence, Conscience, Community, Care for Creation

Other Values

Magis, Cura Personalis, Finding God in All Things, Discernment

Motto

Ite, inflammate omnia!

(Go, set the world on fire!)

PCHS HYMN

Calling us daily to PCHS,

A school so blessed and in peace

Molding and training, you want us to be

We are your young boys and girls in glee

Eager to know with understanding and hope.

With the strength and the courage,

We search and grope;

But you give us your word and

Your deed and your life.

We’ll be of service and with love in our strife.

You taught us to accept and to embrace

Equality regardless of race,

All generations, the young and the old.

This is the virtue PCHS will uphold.

As we go out from the hallowed halls,

His mighty creation on the wall.

May his teaching give us justice and peace,

A loving heart in comfort and ease

We’ll be for others wherever we go,

Love and gratitude we see you through.

To our parents, teachers, classmates

In the neighborhood,

Hail, PCHS!

PCHS MARCHING SONG

These past many years to these last days,

You’ve taught us what is true.

You’ve stamped your seal upon our lives.

Today, we pledge to you.

The truth which you have taught to us,

We’ll always hold them high.

The light that you have lit for us,

We’ll never let it die.

So here’s PCHS’ marching song

Of loyalty to you.

For many years, you challenged us

And helped us struggle through

Here’s graduation’s farewell song

Of gratitude to you

Of thanks to parents, teachers, too

Dear classmates, devotion true