2013 WASSCE: Wesley Girls' SHS makes more than one-third of total 8A1s
Students of the Wesley Girls’ Senior High School in Cape Coast performed so well in the 2013 WASSCE that candidates who obtained A1 in all the subjects they wrote were more than one third of the entire number of candidates who scored eight A1s in the whole country.
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Out of the 151 eight A1s recorded in the examination among the about 500 schools, WGHS alone had 58 of its candidates achieving that feat.
The Minister of Education, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyeman, said it was obvious that the school’s discipline and respect for order had played critical roles in achieving and maintaining such excellent academic standard.
At the school’s Speech and Prize-giving Day held in Cape Coast, Professor Opoku-Agyeman said those values were necessary in the nation's educational institutions to achieve high academic excellence. The occasion was used to honour the students who excelled in the 2013 WASSCE as well as students and staff who performed creditably in their fields of endeavour.
Prof. Opoku-Agyeman said the school had reaped from the efforts and toil of people who sacrificed without expecting anything in return and added that those sacrifices were important if the country was to attain its social and economic aims.
The Headmistress of the School, Mrs Betty Dzokoto, noted that the school also produced the Best Student in Business and Science in the 2013 WASSCE.
She commended the staff for their sacrifices, saying that “no teacher taught any group of girls in the school privately for monetary gains.”
She said teachers in the school gave their best to ensure that the girls excelled and thanked them for their commitment to duty.
Other old students who contributed significantly to society, including Ms Esther Cobbah, the Chief Executive Officer of the Strategic Communication Africa, and Mrs Ellen Hagan, the Chief Executive Officer of L'aine Services Limited, were also honoured.
Mrs Dzokoto also thanked the old students for their immense contribution to the development of the school and called on them to provide mentorship for the girls.
Mrs Peace Ayisi-Okyere, a former Director of the African Development Bank and an old student who was the guest speaker, called on the Ghana Education Service to incorporate values in the educational system, saying, that would be an investment in the citizens to help change the nation's future for the better.