School Activities
The school observes most major Catholic holidays particularly those associated with the founder of the Benedictine Order, Saint Benedict. First Friday Holy Masses are also celebrated, and the students are required to attend. Students in the old site celebrate Holy Mass at the nearby Holy Rosary Parish Church, Angeles City's oldest while those who are in the new site, particularly High School students celebrate theirs in the Covered Court of the school.
There are also quite a number of extracurricular activities that are observed by the school, some of which aren't observed regularly, a few of these are:
- Organization of Clubs - students join a particular club that holds activities for a certain point of interest, for example, Math Club, Science Club, Young Writers' Club, and the like. Clubs vary for grade school and high school departments. Pre-schoolers are not allowed to join clubs
- Ecology Month - observed as a month of appreciation for Mother Earth, similar to the Earth Day celebrations
- Ecology Week - A week in the Ecology Month used for the culminating activities such as the Science Quiz Show and the Tree Planting at Cutcut Farm
- Buwan ng Wika - a month-long celebration of the national language of the Philippines
- Academic Weeks - week-long activities devoted to a particular academic subject taught in the school, e.g. Math Week, Physics Week, History Week and the like
- Songfest - usually held during the holiday season, classes contest to exhibit the best interpretation of a popular Christmas Songwith the exception of S.Y. 2011-12, when it was done during the week when Intramurals and Book Week were incorporated with it.
- Recollections and retreats - an integral part of the spiritual life of students in the school
- Peace Concert - pioneering in 2003, the Peace Concert is a gathering of the academy's performing artists to celebrate and propagate peace and goodwill through music, dance and cultural presentations
- Rosary Month- celebrated throughout the month of October. Students then are tasked to prepare an altar (usually at the back of their classrooms) and would take time to pray the rosary together.
- Intramurals - sports is celebrated in this usually 3 to 4-day activity, this is a chance for students to unwind from the usual peculiarities of school life
- SCIP Activities : Year Level Apostolate; Year I - Cutcut Elementary School, Year II- Bahay Pag-ibig, Year III - HAVEN, Year IV - Aeta Community, Faculty: KKP, Mabalacat
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