Lawra SHS Marks 40th Anniv.

THE Vice President, Alhaji Aliu Mahama, has said  that, the real test of achievement of an educational institution is not in the certificates the products received at the end of their programmes.

Rather, he explained, it is on the services such products offer and the sacrifices they make to society and their overall comportment out of school.

“The products thus constitute the real certificates by which the school will be judged in the long term.” he stressed.

Vice President Mahama was speaking at the 40th anniversary celebration of the Lawra Senior High School (SHS) in the Upper West Region here on Saturday.

 It was on the theme: “Lawra SHS at 40, championing academic excellence in the 21st century, prospects and challenges.”

Alhaji Mahama used  the occasion to inaugurate some development projects constructed for the school under the first phase of the government's model school programme, at a cost of GH¢2.6 million.

They included the completion of an administrative block with a library complex, a computer and a science laboratories, homes economics block, a two-storey boys dormitory and a refurbished two-storey girls dormitory.

He praised the overall academic performance of the school describing it as good and encouraging and commended both past and present headmasters, teachers and other staff who have all helped to create the right teaching and learning environment for the school.

Alhaji Mahama commend Alhaji Rahim Gbadamoshi, the first headmaster of the school, for the hard work and dedication to duty in laying the foundation for the school to have moved this far.

The paramount Chief of the Lawra Traditional Area, Naa Puowelle Karbo II, said 40 years of an institution is no mean an achievement and called on the school authorities to use the occasion for self-examination and plan for the future.

He urged the students to take their studies seriously in order to attain highly academic laurels and take up leadership roles in future and contribute their quota to national development.

The Vice President donated GH¢2,000 towards an appeal for funds launched by the school. The statue of the first headmaster of the school constructed by the old students of the school was unveiled by the Vice President as part of activities to climax the 40th anniversary celebration.