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Breman Asikuma Senior High School appeals for new Assembly Hall

By
J. K. Nabary, GNA

Breman Asikuma (C/R)
Dec 5, GNA – Breman Asikuma Senior High School (BASS) has celebrated its 55
th
Anniversary and Speech and Prize giving Day with an appeal to the government to
construct an Assembly Hall and more classrooms for the School.

The Day was on the
theme: “55 Years of collaboration between the Traditional Authorities and the
Methodist Church, Ghana in the promotion of Secondary Education, Achievements,
Challenges and the way forward”.

Mr James Bambel,
Headmaster of the School who made the appeal at Breman Asikuma said, the lack
of Assembly Hall compelled them to use the dining hall for all gatherings.

“With the increasing
student population, congestion is encountered all the time since the place was
not built as an assembly hall, writing of final year examination has also
become difficult as the hall cannot accommodate many candidates at a time”.

According to the
Headmaster, the school targeted the celebration to complete a project, which
reached the roofing level, comprising offices for heads of department, assistant
Headmasters, staff Common room, store room for examination materials and
equipment.

According to him,
the current student population stood at 2,600 with a staff strength of 137
permanent teachers, 70 non-teaching staff, National Service Personnel, students
on teaching practice and NABCO personnel totaling about 20.

He stated that more
than 1,374 out of the over 2,600, are day students with only one dormitory for
the boys and two for girls, while the classrooms were inadequate, creating a
hostile atmosphere for students for effective learning.

Only 14 of the over
200 staff members, both teaching and non-teaching stayed on the campus, he
indicated and expressed the worry that a 6-unit block of flats project started
in 2014 and was about 90 percent completion was left in the bush.

On academic
performance, Mr. Bambel disclosed that school presented 826 candidates with two
absentees for the 2019 WASSCE and scored 99,03 percent pass and added that some
major subjects like Mathematics improved tremendously from 74 percent in 2018
to 90 percent in 2019,.

Economics also
improved from 60.23 percent in 2018 to 83.37 percent in 2019, while Principles
of Cost Accounting performance moved from 62.12 percent in 2018 to 95.65
percent in 2019.

The Headmaster said,
a final year female Agriculture student by name Ms Juliet Donkoh received the
Cocoa Sustainability Literacy Award, when she placed second in an essay
competition organised by V.C Media of which Aburi Girls’ High School was first
and the third position went to Mfantsiman Girls.

Mr Bambel thanked
the government through the Ministry of education and Ghana Education Service
for adding the school to beneficiary schools of Secondary Education Improvement
Project (SEIP), a project sponsored by the World Bank enabled the school to
rehabilitate its science block.

It will also benefit
from training for teachers of the core subjects, offer free Saturday classes
for 300 selected students from two and three and also purchase essential books
to the tune of GH¢18,000.00 for the school library.

Giving a brief
history of the School, Mr. Bambel announced that it started in 1964 as
Community Secondary school and was later absorbed by the then government under
the Convention People’s Party (CPP) in 1965 with 60 students and six teachers
and moved to its present location in 1973.

He paid tribute to
the founding Fathers of the school for their foresightedness and vision and
also expressed its appreciation to all stakeholders for their continuous
support and pledged the staff’s commitment to ensure better performance of the
students.

GNA

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