SPACO Is 60-Years

Accra, Jan.26, GNA--St Paul's secondary school (SPACO) at Denu in the Volta Region launched its 60th anniversary on Thursday in Accra with a call on the government and stakeholders to help develop the school.

Mr Victor Way Kuvodu, Central Planning Committee chairman for the anniversary, said the school lacked infrastructure, water, among other amenities.

Speaking at the launch, he said the anniversary would seek to ensure that SPACO was transformed into one of the best secondary schools in the country.

He said there were four specific goals; ensuring discipline in academic performance, ensuring appreciation for the school, ensuring good public image and commitment for the school.

The launch was on the theme ''Church Community Relations: 60 years of Education Partnership and Search for Greater Heights.''

Mr Francis Simmy Hlorgbe, the Headmaster of the School stressed that the school was in a poor state, which he said lacked bungalows for staffs.

He said there were two uncompleted projects, which were in a deplorable state and should be focused on, adding that the school 'cannot boast of sustaining past achievement.'

The school has no bus, thereby compelling the authorities to borrow buses from other schools for their out of campus programmes.

'We are appealing to the government to provide the school with a 66 seater bus,' adding that it would help in the easy movement of students for inter-school activities.

Mr Hlorgbe, called on the Minister of Education, stakeholders and the old students association to come on board to support the school, adding that a bright future awaited the school if all stakeholders were commited to helping in developing SPACO.

The school was established on February 3, 1958 by the Catholic Church and was later absorbed by the government as one of the assisted senior high schools under the joint management of the Ghana Education Service and the Catholic Education Unit.

Currently, the school has a population of 1,300 boys who are perusing courses in Business, General Arts, General Science, and Visual Arts.

GNA
By Kojo Adams/Doris Amenyo, GNA