Uncle Rich Schools in Winneba on Saturday, December 17, 2022 held its 2022 Graduation Ceremony with a call for a holistic system of training that makes the individual capable of exhibiting sterling mental, emotional and moral qualities which can endure in a life time.
The Effutu Municipal Director of Education, Mrs. Mabel Judith Micah, made this call when she delivered her speech as the Guest Speaker of the occasion with an appeal on all stakeholders of education to play their respective roles towards adding value to the children who constitute the future leaders of the country.
According to her, the theme for the ceremony “Value Based Education: A Shared Responsibility” was apt and in sync with a general approach to teaching relevant issues that works with value. She said that Value based education creates a strong learning environment that enhances academic achievement as well as develop students’ social and relationship skills that last throughout their lives.
Mrs. Judith Micah added that value based education entails the overall personality development of the student with the aim of training the students to face the outer world with the right attitude and values.
The Municipal Chief Executive for the Effutu Municipal Assembly, Hon. Alhaji Zubairu Kassim, who chaired the occasion lauded management of the school for maintaining high standards as a model school in the Municipality and the country as a whole.
He said that the school since its establishment has chalked a lot of successes primarily due to the effective collaboration between the management of the school, its teachers and other relevant stakeholders of education in the Municipality.
He pledged the continuous support of the Assembly to help maintain and build on the successes chalked by the school over the years. Hon. Zubairu Kassim, made a cash donation to support the purchase of a bus to ease the transportation challenge faced by the school.
The Headmistress of the school, Mrs. Bohyeba Richardson- Dogah, whiles enumerating the strides made by the school in the past years expressed the appreciation of the Management to the teachers for the professionalism exhibited in making the school a force to reckon with in the ladder of education not only the Municipality and the region but the country as a whole.
She gave an account of the school in the major examinations organized the West African Examination Council since its inception as well as the consistency with which products of the school have excelled in these examinations.
Mrs. Richardson- Dogah, said the school has over the years become the center of excellence in education in the Central Region which stakeholders can be proud of. She pledged the commitment of the leadership of the school to continue to work towards maintaining the enviable reputation of the school to serve the community.
STORY BY: CHARLES BAAH ABOAGYE
ISD- EFFUTU MUNICIPAL ASSEMBLY
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Last modified: December 23, 2022