Leklebi SHS makes strides
The Leklebi Senior High School (LESEC) was officially opened as a private Community Secondary School on October 13, 1967. It was absorbed into the public system on October 12, 1977. It now has 41 teaching staff and 41 non-teaching staff, with a student population of 611.
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Although speech and prize giving days are cherished moments for hard-working students and staff, both academic and non-academic, and also held to open up the school to the public, LESEC has not held such a programme over the past 46 years that the school has been in existence, due to some challenges.
It was therefore a joyous moment when the school held its first speech and prize-giving day recently.
In an address, the Headmistress of the school, Ms Charity Calai, stated that the school continued to make steady progress in the West African Examination Council (WAEC), and was hopeful that the current staff quality and performance will continue to improve.
She said the school had benefited from three GETFUND projects that include a girls’ dormitory block, one storey boys’ dormitory, which was started in 2011 and a 12 unit classroom block, started last year and called for the completion of some projects yet to be completed.
The Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) has constructed a duty post for the head of the school at a cost of GH¢35,074.34, which was inaugurated during the speech day.
She appealed for a modern administration block to accommodate administrative and accounting staff as well as an assembly and dining hall complex, and staff bungalows.
Addressing the ceremony, the Director of the Secondary Education Division of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Reverend Simon Asige, stressed the need for a collaborative effort amongst school authorities, parents and all other stakeholders to improve the standards of education.
He said that was necessary to adequately prepare students to meet the competitive job market both at the national and international level.
In a speech read on his behalf, the Regional Director of Education, Mr Emmanuel Ketteku, said speech and prize-giving and home-coming day celebrations were not mere formalities but very strategic fora that brought stakeholders of a school together and provided a platform to chart the way forward.
“It is therefore wonderful to know that for the very first time in 46 years, this platform has been created and will be sustained so that this promising school would begin to make greater strides in all areas of its life”, he stated.
The guest of honour and Member of Parliament for Ketu-North, Mr James Avedzi, called on communities, acting through school management boards, to provide direction and moral support to school administrations to reverse the dwindling academic performance in public schools.
By Tim Dzamboe
