Get Junior Graphic for your children -Says Shama District Education Director
The Shama District Director of Education, Mrs Esther Bossman-Ammah, has advised parents to complement the efforts of teachers by encouraging their children to read and write for the Junior Graphic.
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She said as much as children were being encouraged to read, parents must also ensure that they were exposed to educative materials for children to enable them to grow into responsible adults.
Mrs Bossman-Ammah was speaking at a ceremony to launch the one-year’s supply of the Junior Graphic newspaper for children in the deprived parts of the Shama District in the Western Region.
The cost of the year-long supply of the paper is borne by the Harbour Branch Head of the Zenith Bank in Takoradi, Ms. Eunice Yaa Boatema Ntim.
Mrs Bossman-Ammah said parents should be interested in issues related to the education of their children and take steps to assist in the academic progress of pupils and students.
She pointed out that children who read widely were able to understand examination questions better.
“Through reading, the child develops the ability to understand examination questions better and provide accurate answers to them.
With the use of the continuous assessment in basic schools for the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), Mrs Bossman-Ammah stressed that students needed to ensure that their school work was good as much as possible, since it played a key role in the final results of the BECE.
For her part, the Harbour Branch Head of the Zenith Bank, Ms Ntim, said it was gratifying to pay for a year’s subscription of the Junior Graphic for some of the deprived schools in the Shama District.
Ms Ntim, a reading enthusiast herself, added that it would be a great disservice to children if they could neither read nor write.
The Shama District Chief Executive, Mr Enoch Kojo Appiah, urged the children to take the reading of the Junior Graphic seriously to ensure that the school’s reading clinics succeeded.
The Zonal Manager of the Graphic Communications Group Limited for the Western and Central regions, Mrs Memunatu Mahama, reiterated that the Junior Graphic was a great reading material for children, as it would help improve their vocabulary and writing skills.