Ayawaso Central MP boosts BECE students morale
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Ayawaso Central, Mr Henry Quartey, has invited psychologists and motivational speakers to boost the morale of students within the constituency who are going to rewrite the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).
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The MP is footing the bill of the extra classes being organised in the constituency to prepare the students for the re-writing of the cancelled papers in Ayawaso Central.
More than 700 pupils in Ayawaso Central are rewriting the BECE papers that were cancelled by the West African Examination Council (WAEC) last week because of leak.
The papers
The papers are English Language 2, Religious and Moral Education 2, Integrated Science 2, Mathematics 2 and Social Studies 2. The papers will be taken on June 29 and June 30.
The MP began the exercise yesterday, with his team visiting the Alajo, Abavana and Kotobabi 5 and 6 clusters of schools. Today, the team will conclude the exercise with visits to A.N.T Experimental Cluster at Kpehe as well as Kwame Nkrumah Memorial and Panama clusters of schools.
Interacting with some of the students, teachers and parents at the Alajo Cluster of schools yesterday, the MP disclosed that as part of the exercise, teachers in the constituency were being motivated to take the affected students through some past questions.
Examination
This, he believes, will ensure that the students are fully prepared to re-write the examinations.
Mr Quartey explained that he was also bearing the cost of any extra classes that the teachers would organise to relieve parents of the unforeseen financial burden involved.
He stressed that students and teachers would be provided with snacks during the evening and weekend extra classes.
He, therefore, urged parents and guardians to allow their children and wards to participate in the classes since they would pay nothing.
Blame game
Dr Joseph Osafo, a lecturer at the Psychology Department of the University of Ghana, addressed the gathering and urged parents and teachers to desist from blame games since the students were not the cause of the cancellation.
He said what the students needed at the moment were words of encouragement to enable them to overcome the stress and trauma they were currently going through.
Dr Osafo also advised the affected students to be careful in interpreting the cancellation as a failure, since they had another opportunity to write the cancelled papers better.
Mrs Doris Sika Dzenu, the officer in charge of the Ayawaso Central schools, said the programme was unprecedented.
She urged other schools in the country to take a cue from the initiative of the Ayawaso Central MP to organise similar programmes.
Mrs Dzenu observed that most of the students were visibly disturbed but the programme had come to put them at ease while increasing their confidence levels.