ASHAIMAN SHS LAUNCHES 20TH ANNIVERSARY (PAGE 11, DEC 8, 2010)

THE Ashaiman Senior High School (ASHAISEC), which is the premier secondary school in Ashaiman, is 20 years and has accordingly launched its 20th anniversary to celebrate pioneers who through hard work, have brought the school to its present status.
It was themed “Accessibility to quality education – the need for parity in resource distribution”.
The school started with 30 students and three members of staff to boost teaching and learning .
Twenty years on the school now boasts of moderate infrastructure, a staff strength of 88 and a student population of 1,450 made up of 733 boys and 717 girls .
The Ashaiman Municipal Director of Education, Ms Florence Quaye, who launched the anniversary commended the founders of the school for ensuring that Ashaiman had a senior high school to make secondary education accessible to the people.
She noted that although government had the responsibility to provide infrastructure and financial resources for the promotion of quality teaching and learning in schools, the communities in which schools were located, also had to be equally responsive to the needs of such institutions.
She stated that government and other stakeholders have made bold attempts to improve on infrastructure in the school to cater for the teeming student population.
Ms Quaye said the school had a solid human resource capacity with highly qualified, experienced and motivated staff who had inculcated in the students, discipline, honesty, self-confidence, hardwork, patriotism and tolerance.
She commended both teachers and students for excelling in activities including sports, culture symposia and others which is a proof that the school is not concerned with only academic issues but also the holistic training of the individual.
Ms Quaye called on the Parent Teacher Association (PTA), the Board, old students of the school and corporate bodies to poll resources to make ASHAISEC grow .
She cautioned the students to eschew negative practices adding that “you can be agents of change wherever you find yourselves to move Ashaiman forward, as indicated by the school’s motto ‘modernisation calls for change’ .”
The Headmaster of the school, Mr Emmanuel Ofoe Fiemawhle, described the celebration as historic and emphasised their commitment to train quality students to become future leaders.
He, therefore, called on government to provide adequate support in terms of infrastructure and teaching materials to enable the school authorities perform their roles creditably.
Mr Fiemawhle mentioned that some of the highlights of the celebration of the anniversary were debates, clean-ups, health walk, float and symposium .
He stated that a speech and prize giving day will climax the anniversary on December 11th 2010. AS