Krobo Girls SHS pays tribute to founding mothers
The Headmistress of Krobo Girls Presbyterian Senior High School in the Eastern Region, Madam Cecilia Obenewa Appiah, has paid glowing tribute to the founding mothers of the school for their foresight and selfless efforts in establishing the school.
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She said the school would forever be indebted to the Scottish Missionaries, Miss Sisie Lamont and Miss Cathefine Moir, and their teams who left Scotland to lay the foundation "for this great school and their sacrifices” to the point that of some of them laid down their lives.
She said with the school's motto “the best for the highest" as a source of inspiration and motivation, these missionaries worked tirelessly and very hard to achieve their objective.
Emphasis on discipline
"They placed much emphasis on discipline, hard work, morality and above all academic excellence. Incredibly, any girl, who passed through Krobo Girls left with three solid and admirably avowed qualities, namely hard work, morality and discipline which are inculcated in the school's religious and educational activities and tenets", she added.
Madam Appiah, who was speaking at the 88th Founders and Speech and Prize-Giving Day of the school at Odumase Krobo, said the school, from a modest girls middle school, has metamorphosed into a fledging senior high school and one of the most preferred girls schools and a grade "A" school.
She commended the Parent-Teacher Association for constructing a two-storey dormitory block for the school, and the government, through the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund), for helping to address some of the infrastructural challenges of the school.
"The Ministry of Roads and Highways is also coming to our aid by undertaking to rehabilitate our roads from the main Odumase-Assesewa Road", she said.
Exchange programme
Madam Appiah said the school enjoyed students exchange programme with Japanese students which allowed "our students to travel to Japan annually for there weeks and come July this year we would receive our counterparts from Japan in our school and this will be followed by a reciprocal visit to Japan in August 2015".
She, however, expressed concern about some challenges facing the school, which she said, included the need to build a fence around the school, perennial water problem due to lack of large storage facility, as well as non-completion of the dining hall, inadequate classroom and staff accommodation and lack of a sports field.
Address by dignitaries
The deputy Eastern Regional Minister, Miss Mavis Ama Frimpong, cautioned the final-year students of the school not to engage in examination malpractices. She also encouraged parents and teachers not to condone malpractices but to report perpetrators.
An old student of the school, Reverend Mrs Grace Fleischer, expressed concern over the refusal of some heads of schools to readmit students who unfortunately got pregnant and want to continue schooling after delivery.
She said such girls must be rather encouraged to move on in life, and not stigmatised
The school prefect, Miss Yvonne Padi Ologo, gave an assurance that the final year students would work hard to make the school proud in this year’s West African Secondary School Certificate Examination.