Victory Baptist School Complex To Become JHS
The Victory Baptist School Complex, a mission basic school at Ayigya, a suburb of Kumasi, will be expanded to junior high school status in the 2012/2013 academic year.
The school which currently runs a nursery and primary one to six, hopes to be expanded to cover JHS.
It has 300 pupils, and as such an expansion will be a milestone in the history of the school towards achieving academic excellence.
The Proprietor of the School, Reverend Owusu Ampofo, announced this at the school’s second open day and said it had always beeen the dream of the school’s management to expand it.
Rev. Ampofo who doubles as the Senior Minister of the Ayigya Victory Baptist Church recalled that the school was established by the church in September 2002, with the aim of ensuring quality education and proper training of the child.
He said the school had been well sited within a very conducive area to fully support effective learning and teaching, adding that its holistic education to instil discipline in the children was very paramount.
The Headteacher of the School, Mrs Mary Kumah, said the school had introduced the teaching of Information and Communication Technology (ICT).
In view of this she appealed to the government, non-governmental agencies, civil society, and individuals and corporate bodies to come to its aid by providing computers to enhance practical orientation in ICT learning.
Mrs Kumah commended the teaching and non-teaching staff, the parent-teacher association and the church for helping in diverse ways to bring the school that far.
The Human Resource Manager at the Ashanti Regional Education Directorate, Mr Edward Adams, who represented the Kumasi Metro Director of Education, Ms Gladys Amaning, noted that the school was a place for standard and formal training of the child.
He, however, said it behoved all parents and guardians to send their children to school for that intellectual capacity building and development in order for them to fully fit into the society.
He stated that there was the need to sustain intellectual generations required for the current global advancement, saying that: “the Ghanaian child should not be left out of this”.
He, therefore, urged the government, the church, parents, guardians and all stakeholders to contribute meaningfully towards the educational well being of their wards.
The Head of the Department of Renewable Natural Resources of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Professor Steve Amissah, chaired the function which was climaxed with poetry recitals from the pupils.
Pupils who excelled in various disciplines of the school were given special awards.