Bayugan National Comprehensive High School
| Bayugan National Comprehensive High School Pambansang Mataas na Paaralang Komprehinsibo ng Bayugan | |
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| Address | |
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Narra Avenue, Poblacion, Bayugan City, Agusan del Sur Philippines | |
| Information | |
| Type | Public school |
| Established | April 18, 1980 |
| Principal | Dr. Wilson C Calvo |
| Enrollment | 5350 (est. 2010) |
| Campus | Poblacion Campus |
| Website |
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 Science building | |
Bayugan National Comprehensive High School (BNCHS), popularly known as "Compre", is a public, coeducational, comprehensive high school in Bayugan City, Agusan del Sur, Philippines. Its main campus is located on five hectares, and has a population of around 6,000 students, making it the most populous in the entire province.
The school has a renowned Research program in science-related topics. In the 2015 edition of Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, BNCHS won its first ever ISEF award of any kind, a Third Grand Award, courtesy of the student researchers, namely, Kenneth Michael Angelo N. Antonio, Marian R. Cabuntocan, and Thea Marie L. Tinaja - all from the school's Engineering and Science Education Program (ESEP). Ms. Apple Grace D. Aberia officially coached the team from the school, divisional, regional, and national levels of competition up to the exemplary performance in the Biomedical & Health Sciences Category of the Intel ISEF 2015. Notably, this is the highest placement ever achieved by the country in the said ISEF category.
Compre has also made its name in the field of Oratorical Contest in the national level as it won the Third Grand Prize in the 4th Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas-DepEd Oratorical Competition held at BSP Building, Malate, Metro Manila with the school orator, Izza Cagas of Grade 10 ESEP who was coached by Sir Delfin C. Fernandez, an English Teacher.
The Special Program in Journalism or also known as SPJ one of the curriculum programs offered by BNCHS has also contributed much to the honor and prestige Bayugan City Division has achieved over the years. Violeta C. Nunez, the Horizon School Paper Adviser at the same time the SPJ Coordinator was adjudged National Outstanding School Paper Adviser in 2015.
BNCHS SPJ students have also won numerous awards in TV Broadcasting and Radio Broadcasting & Scriptwriting in the national level. These students were trained by the Journalism teacher, Sir Delfin C. Fernandez. The school news anchor in Radio Broadcasting, Thea Tinaja was also adjudged National Outstanding Campus Journalist in 2014.
In the National Inventor's Week 2006,[1][2] sponsored by the Technology Application and Promotion Institute (TAPI) of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), in November 13–17. 2006, the top prize for the Outstanding Student Creative Research (or Sibol Award) for high school was won by a student and his science teacher-coach, Gregor C. Burdeos. The Filipino-Chinese Chamber of Commerce Most Promising Invention Award and WIPO International Gold Medal Award[3] were both given to the student as special awards. A month before, the student became the first and only high school student to become a sub-plenary speaker in the Samahang Pisika ng Visayas at Mindanao (SPVM) National Physics Conference and Workshop.[4] He was also declared the champion in the individual category of the 10th Intel Philippines Science Fair.[5]
BNCHS produced two Honourable Mentions in the First Step to Nobel Prize in Physics:[6] a student (Fifteenth International Competition)[7] and his cousin Seventeenth International Competition.[8]
History
The Bayugan National Comprehensive High School, formerly called Bayugan Municipal Comprehensive High School was conceived in 1975 but came to reality in April 1980 when Sangguniang Bayan of Bayugan through the initiative and leadership of the Municipal Mayor Vicente P. Encendencia passed a municipal resolution no. 37 creating the school.
On June 14, 1980, the school opened the first two years of secondary curriculum with 105 first year and 26 second year students and six faculty members. It was opened adjacent to the burned Bayugan Municipal Hospital.
Curriculum
BNCHS conducts an entrance examination in order to determine the students to be part of its ESEP (Engineering Science Education Program), Special Program in Arts, Special Program in Sports and Special Program in Journalism curriculum.
BNCHS ALMA MATER SONG
We gladly sing to thee Our dear Alma Mater With pride we love to tell Thy triumphs do prevail
The years we've been with thee The better we've become Thy light beams on our way Leading to victory
Oh dear Alma Mater Bayugan National Comprehensive High School, Thy name our hearts revere Today until the end This banner we uphold As we march towards the goal
We always pledge to thee The honor and loyalty
(Repeat Chorus)
CODA: WE ALWAYS PLEDGE TO THEE
THE HONOR AND LOYALTY
References
- ↑ Carticiano, Ullyann (3 November 2006). ""Proud to be a Pinoy Inventor" - National Inventors' Week 2006". Philippines: Philippine Council for Health Research and Development.
- ↑ "National inventors' week celebration starts November 13". PIA Building, Visayas Avenue, Diliman, Quezon City 1101 Philippines: Philippine Information Agency. 10 November 2006.
- ↑ "PHILIPPINES" (PDF). WIPO. Philippines.
- ↑ 8th Samahang Pisika ng Visayas at Mindanao (SPVM) National Physics Conference and Workshop (PDF), Notre Dame of Marbel University, City of Koronadal, South Cotabato, October 26–28, 2006
- ↑ Serrano, Ben (3 September 2007). "Students discover use for tilapia scales, rambutan vs radiation". ABS-CBN Interactive. The Philippine Star. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
- ↑ "FIRST STEP TO NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS". Instytut Fizyki PAN (in Polish). Retrieved 25 January 2014.
- ↑ Fifteenth International Competition "Prizes and Honourable Mentions in the Fifteenth International Competition, First Step to Nobel Prize in Physics" Check
|url=value (help). Instytut Fizyki PAN (in Polish). Warsaw, Poland. June 2007. - ↑ "Prizes and Honourable Mentions in the Seventeenth International Competition, First Step to Nobel Prize in Physics". Instytut Fizyki PAN (in Polish). Warsaw, Poland. June 2009. Retrieved 25 January 2014.