HISTORY
St. Bernadette College of Valenzuela was founded by a retired public school teachers, Dr. Jesus T. Bernal and Dr. Lourdes B. Bernal in 1996. They fervently prayed and asked for the guidance of the Lord to venture a school. The Lord was leading them to start a school that will develop God-fearing and academically excellent individuals. They started a small nursery at home with 15 students enrolled in the class and Dr. Lourdes B. Bernal was the first teacher. The school was formerly known as the St. Bernadette Learning Center located at 6121 Gen T. De Leon, Valenzuela City.
Then the miracle began to unfold, St. Bernadette Learning Center opened Grade 1 to Grade 3 in 1999. Grade 4 was opened on the following year. In 2001, St. Bernadette Learning Center opened Grade 5 and Grade 6 for the Grade School department.
In 2002, Dr. Lourdes and Dr. Jesus Bernal was blessed with the growing population of the school. They finally opened the High School Department for the first year to third year high school and fourth year high school in 2003 with the total of 600 students from Pre-School to High School.
In God’s providence, St. Bernadette Academy of Valenzuela was renamed St. Bernadette College of Valenzuela in 2005. The enrollment reached the 1,400 marked by the same year. The school continue to grow and develop God-fearing and academically excellent individuals over the years.
In 2016, St. Bernadette College of Valenzuela opened Senior High School Program with complete Academic Track and Tech-Voc Track with an enrollment of 563. In God’s providence, the enrollment from Pre-School to Senior High School reached 2,484. In the same year, St. Bernadette College of Valenzuela is now preparing for the higher education, the tertiary level.
OBJECTIVES
PRE-SCHOOL AND ELEMENTARY OBJECTIVES
The ultimate goal of SBCV is to help each pupil/student develop within himself/ herself the foundation habits, attitudes, skills, appreciation and understanding which are essential for a lifetime of creative learning.
Consistent with these goals, are the following objectives:
1. To develop in each pupil a positive attitude towards school and learning itself.
2. To encourage pupils to experience the joy of learning; develop a positive self-image and the internist’s satisfaction that comes with mastery of concepts and fundamental skills.
3. To capitalize on the pupil’s natural curiosity, guide and stimulate their energies to enhance their sensory-motor and perceptual skills, language ability, creativity and socio-emotional development.
4. To motivate the pupils to work independently at their own pace and ability, in an atmosphere of respect and understanding of individual differences.
5. To assist the pupils in their desire to learn efficiently and effectively the English and Filipino languages and to communicate in both written and oral.
6. To help the pupils gain proficiency in social, mathematical, scientific
7. To develop in the pupils awareness and gratitude to God and His creations.
8. To foster in the pupil/student a sense of order and discipline.
HIGH SCHOOL OBJECTIVES
1. To prepare the students to the existing courses offered in higher
2. To strengthen the student’s moral, spiritual, social values for a more developed humanistic characteristics that would understand changes in their lives, environment and cultural inheritance, love of country and God to the utmost.
3. To spearhead among the students the basic knowledge on academic and technological aspects that would enhance enthusiasm and interest to pursue higher education.
4. To develop a self-reliant, hard-working, efficient, credible and wholesome individual to face and react to unstable economic situations and other social, political problems of the country.
5. To create wholesome citizens with a strong foundation of high quality education and acceptable values which enable them to become aware of their human rights and duties.
6. To serve one’s family, country and God to the utmost.
7. To develop the holistic personality of the students; their cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains; increase their love and care of nature so that students will develop the awareness in the conversation of natural resources and cultural heritage; inculcate the students the importance of applying the principles of learning in school.
