Notre Dame School holds Speech and Prize Giving Day

Navrongo, (UE/R), March 19, GNA- Mrs. Elizabeth Ayire Mwinkaar, Director of Education for Upper East Region, has urged students of the Notre Dame Senoir Secondary School in Navrongo to work hard to sustain the academic excellence and discipline the school had so far earned.
     She noted that the school since its inception had trained a lot of eminent persons who had contributed in diverse ways to national development.
      The Director of Education made the call during the Third Speech and Prize Giving Day of the school, at the weekend in Navrongo.
     Mrs. Mwinkaar cited the Minister of Energy, Mr. Joseph Kofi Adda, the Vice Chancellor of the University for Development Studies, Professor Bonaventure John Kaburise, and others as products of the school, and urged the students to emulate the good works of their predecessors.
     She urged educational institutions in the country to always use speech and prize giving days to review their activities to enable them to make comprehensive plan towards the development of their schools.
     Father Francis Kodelogo, headmaster, said in 2004, the school was among the best on the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) performance list in the country..
     He said in 2005, the school maintained it spectacular performance becoming on of the best school with Wesley Girls Senior Secondary School on the performance list.
     Father Kodelogo also said in 2006, out of the 76 candidates presented for the examination, with the exception of one of them all the rest qualified for admission into the University.
     He appealed to the Government and other donor partners in education to assist the school to complete its science laboratory, renovate a four-classroom block and dinning hall and acquire a bus.
     In a speech read on his behalf, Mr Boniface Gambila, the Upper East Regional Minister, urged the students to study hard and to shun occultism, drug abuse and other anti-social vices.
     He pledged that the Regional Coordinating Council would support development programmes of the school.
     The Kassena-Nankana District Chief Executive (DCE), Mr. Emmanuel Chegeweh, commended the Catholic Church, which established the school for supporting government's development efforts.
     The School Prefect, Master Avoka Cephas, appealed to  government to assist the school get access to the interment to enhance academic work.

19 March 07