22/09/2026
🏆 AN ANSWERED PRAYER. A VICTORY WORTH REMEMBERING. A HISTORY MADE. 🏆
🌻With nothing but 100% heart, energy, dedication, and effort, our SRNHS Hablon Mananayaw stepped onto the stage and gave everything they had—without asking for anything in return, except the chance to represent San Rafael National High School with pride.
🌻And today, we celebrate an answered prayer. Congratulations, San Rafael National High School, for being declared CHAMPION in the Sayaw Sa Hablon 2026 – Stylized Folk Dance Competition, Secondary Level! 🏆
🌻This moment is overwhelming in the best possible way. Seeing all the countless hours of practice, sacrifices, exhaustion, challenges, and perseverance finally culminate in this achievement reminds us that hard work, when fueled by passion and unity, truly bears fruit.
🌻To everyone who cheered, encouraged, prayed, believed, and supported us until the very end—THANK YOU. This championship carries a piece of every person who stood with us throughout this journey. Your support gave our dancers strength when they needed it most.
💃 OUR HEARTFELT GRATITUDE
This masterpiece would not have come to life without the invaluable expertise, creativity, and dedication of our choreographer and critics/consultants:
✨ Crisanto Sorsano
✨ Teray Portugalete Nolledo
✨ Rhoma Grace Volcan Pandan
✨ Neve Fairuza Tajaran
🌻We are deeply grateful for the time, knowledge, artistry, guidance, and passion you shared with our learners. Your mentorship helped shape not only the movements and choreography, but also the story, character, discipline, and spirit behind every performance.
🌻This presentation is proudly part of “Galaw UPV” – Public Service Recipient School of the University of the Philippines Visayas (UPV), College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), Department of Physical Education.
🌻To our mentors, thank you for helping us transform movement into meaning, dance into storytelling, and performance into a masterpiece. Your contribution will forever be part of this memorable chapter of SRNHS. 💙💛
⚡️TO OUR HABLON MANANAYAW
🌻To our Hablon Mananayaw Batch 2026, we could not be prouder of you. You danced not only with skill, but with heart, discipline, courage, passion, and pride. Every movement carried the countless hours of practice. Every step reflected your sacrifices. Every smile on that stage represented the strength you found in one another.
You represented San Rafael National High School with everything you had, and you gave the entire San-Rafaelian community a moment we will forever treasure.
💄 HAIR & MAKE-UP ARTISTRY
🌻Our heartfelt appreciation also goes to Ms. Jaynel Toleron, our dedicated hair and make-up artist, whose creativity, patience, and attention to detail helped complete the overall look and presentation of our Hablon Mananayaw.
🌻Your artistry may have happened behind the scenes, but it played an important role in bringing our performers' characters and cultural presentation to life. Thank you for sharing your talent and helping our dancers shine on the stage. ✨
🏆 THIS VICTORY BELONGS TO ALL OF US
🌻This championship is not only for those who stood on the stage. It belongs to every learner, teacher, parent, school leader, stakeholder, supporter, mentor, choreographer, consultant, artist, and San-Rafaelian who contributed to this journey. To everyone who believed in us, stood behind us, prayed for us, encouraged us, and cheered until the very end—this victory is yours, too.
We dreamed.
We worked.
We struggled.
We persevered.
We gave our all.
And together, we made history. 🏆✨
🏆 SAN RAFAEL NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
CHAMPION – SECONDARY LEVEL
SAYAW SA HABLON 2026 (Stylized Folk Dance Competition)
🌻May we remember this achievement not simply because we became champions, but because of the people, sacrifices, friendships, lessons, and countless efforts that made this moment possible.
🌻We receive this victory with grateful hearts, humble spirits, and immense pride in what we have accomplished together.
🌻PADAYON, SAN-RAFAELIANS! 💙💛
🌻This is our victory. This is our story. This is our masterpiece. 🏆✨
(📸 Some photos are not ours; credits go to their respective owners.)
