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What is the Xavier Award?
Therese Pelias, G7 Counselor

Posted Friday, 14-Jan-2005 9:02 AM

      Xavier School looks up to students who live up to its ideals. Like any school, it hopes to produce only the best, the ones who are able to faithfully live up to its mission, vision and goals. Once a year, grades 5 to 7 students and the entire Grade School faculty and staff take part in the selection and nomination process for those students who continually let their light shine – the Xavier Awardees. They are the recipients of the very prestigious Xavier Award.

      The Xavier Award is the highest distinction of honor Xavier School grants to students who meet the criteria on leadership, service and academic excellence. It is designed and developed to provide for the on-going motivation and formation of a student and to challenge him to maximize his potentials towards excellence in his growth and development.

      Xavier prizes holistic development in the institution and promotion of this award among its students. Students are highly encouraged to become shining examples who are motivated and inspired to achieve excellence in all the qualities of the Xaverian – the 6C's.

      The 6C's are the meter sticks by which Xavier Awardees are measured:

• Competence includes not only academic excellence but exemplary involvement and participation in extracurricular activities.
• Culture is indicative of the embodiment of Chinese and Filipino values that is seen in how one upholds traditions and practices – someone clearly proud of his roots.
• Compassion is all about one's availability to be of service to others.
• Conscience is about faith and how one lives to one's Christian beliefs and values.
• Character dwells on the nurturance of the proper values such as honesty, humility, kindness, self-reliance and the like.
• Community means the promotion of becoming active and notable members of the school community and even of the outside world.

      The entire process starts with a launching ceremony which precedes a classroom orientation in the students' respective Advisory Periods. The orientation is followed by the actual nomination. Forms are then submitted to the Grades 5 to 7 Guidance Counselors who take charge of collating, summarizing and tabulating all information therein.

      As soon as the results are ready, the process moves on to the screening process which has three parts. At this point, various screening committee members go through the important role of deliberating and thoroughly selecting those who are only worthy to be named Xavier Awardees.

      The spirit of the Xavier Award does not live only at the moment the awardee receives his medal during graduation or during his presentation in the last general school assembly of the school year. They continue to tread on the paths they have chosen where the glimmer of the light that started in their youth continues to shine on.

      Take a glimpse on what some of these awardees have become. And just imagine what potentials all Xaverians hold in their young lives right now. Take an active part in putting the spotlight on those they can look up to today.
  

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