THE Aburi Girls’ Senior High School chalked up 100 per cent in the 2009 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), making this record the best academic performance in more than 10 years.
Out of the 460 candidates who passed in all the eight subjects, one student obtained Grade A in all the eight subjects while seven got Grade As in seven subjects.
With such an improved academic record, the school has now become the best SHS “that feeds the universities in the country with qualified students”.
The Headmistress of the school, Mrs Silvia Asempa, made this known at the school’s 64th anniversary speech and prize-giving at Aburi.
She stated that “among the 20 top SHSs who fed the universities five years ago, we have improved to the top 10 two years ago and the top five last year and today we are the number one SHS”.
The event, marked on the theme: “Be That Light On The Hill”, was used to honour students who had distinguished themselves in various subjects and co-curricula activities, as well as hardworking teaching and non-teaching staff.
Ms Ernestina Okoe-Martey, who obtained eight Grade As in the 2009 WASSCE, was honoured for being the overall best student. For her prize, she received a laptop and assorted sets of books.
The class of 1985 students, who organised the anniversary, also honoured the Headmistress of the school, Mrs Asempa, and her deputy, Mrs Sefa Twerefour, and her predecessor, Dr Joyce Lucy Asibey, for their distinguished services to the development and academic successes of the school over the years.
The headmistress attributed the successful academic achievement in the 2009 WASSCE to innovative policies, strict supervision, improved infrastructure, congenial atmosphere, teamwork, commitment and dedication of the management, parent-teacher association (PTA), board members, Old Girls Association and the students.
“We promise not to dilute our academic momentum to be at the top always,” Mrs Asempa said, seizing the opportunity to express her profound gratitude to the teaching and non-teaching staff, students and other stakeholders.
On discipline, Mrs Asempa said discipline had remained one of the guiding principles that had significantly made a difference in the character of the students and their academic performance.
“However unpalatable our discipline methods seem, we make our girls understand and appreciate the fact that discipline has a direct relationship with academic performance and the bedrock of every successful endeavour,” she stated.
She gave an assurance that “since discipline is a holistic system that ensures total development of our girls to enable them to reap its full effect of hard work, self-respect, self-dignity and confidence, we will never be complacent in our discipline approach”.
Recounting other successes achieved by the school under her nine-year administration, Mrs Asempa mentioned the PTA-funded GH¢52,000 sachet water plant, the first of its kind in any SHS in the country, a GH¢32,000 refurbished chemistry lab funded by the 1985 class, a GH¢20,000 bedroom flat, a three-unit classroom block which had enabled the school to admit 120 more girls, and a two-bedroom flat, among others.
On challenges facing the school, the headmistress identified the lack of a modern art studio for the art department as the only challenge facing the art students, adding that “it is the only department that has not received any appreciable attention”.
On infrastructure, she said with the support of the school’s PTA, Old Girls Association and other stakeholders, “we are on our own putting measures in place to supplement the government’s infrastructural development to accommodate the 2010/2011 new entrants in September this year”.
Delivering her keynote address, a Circuit Court judge, Mrs Doris Bempong, an old student, advised the students to strive for excellence and integrity to enable them to make a difference in their life and that of others.
“To fulfil your dreams, sacrifice yourself by devoting your time, talents and resources to your studies and seek out and love everyone regardless of their situation and circumstances, as well as inspire by teaching others through your example,” she stated.
A special guest of honour, Mrs Oboshie Sai-Kofie, an old student and former Minister of Information and National Orientation, encouraged the students to avail themselves of the opportunities to be groomed and prepared for excellence for responsible leadership in future.
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