A 13-MEMBER reconstituted Board of Governors of the Kadjebi-Asato Senior High School (KASHS), to steer the affairs of the school for a three-year term, has been inaugurated at Kadjebi in the Volta Region.
The new board, which is yet to choose its chairperson, replaces the former one which had been in existence for the past six years.
Inaugurating the 13-member board, Mr Seth Alifo, the Kadjebi District Chief Executive, charged the members of the committee to get in touch with the old boys and girls to contribute their quota to the rehabilitation of the school.
Mr Alifo expressed his profound gratitude to the Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) of the school which was assisting them to accommodate fresh students this academic year.
The out going chairman of the old board, Mr Anthony Gyambiby, said during their tenure of office, the school moved from Grade B to Grade B+, and therefore, commended the members for working hard with the school authorities towards the achievement of that status.
Mr Gyambiby hoped the new board “will keep the flame burning” to ensure that the school moves a step further to Grade A in the near future.
He called on Mr Joseph Amenowode, the Regional Minister, to consider using part of the vast land given to the school for the establishment of a Satellite campus of the proposed Volta Regional University.
According to Mr Gyambiby, the 569 acres of land at the disposal of the school would be more profitably used if the suggestion was considered.
Mr Thomas Fordjour-Ababio, the Headmaster of the school, in a welcoming address, said the school was making good use of the land available to them by going into agriculture.
Mr Fordjour-Ababio said last year, they cropped 20 acres of land with maize from where they harvested 100 maxi bags. They also cropped six acres with rice which they have not yet harvested. They are also into animal husbandry; rearing 19 pigs and 11 piglets.
That, the headmaster said, was not at the expense of academic performance. He said apart from the 100 per cent pass they scored in 2009 WASCE, 295 out of the 350 students they presented passed in six or more subjects. “That meant that about 84 per cent of them could gained outright admission to tertiary institutions,” the headmaster pointed out. He said the school’s objective was to move from category B to A, step up their performance in Mathematics and also work towards the Head of State Award.
He said in sports, the school continued to take the first position in all disciplines in the zone and in the region. He said, at the moment, the school was confronted with problems of infrastructure, particularly inadequate classroom accommodation, classroom furniture and the dining hall, following the intake of new SSS 1 students.
He said the school was challenged with inadequate staff, inadequate classroom and furniture and water supply and power. Due to the inadequate academic staff, some of them teach as many as 30 or 40 periods a week instead of the maximum 25 for a graduate teacher.
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