Needy students join Mary Mother school for BECE
Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates from the Bebuso Roman Catholic JHS at Donkorkrom in the Eastern Region have joined their mates at the Mary Mother of Good Counsel School at Airport in Accra, to study and acquaint themselves with teaching and learning in the city to help improve on their performance.
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According to the Headmaster of the Bebuso JHS, Mr Victor Yao Amesi, the school is one of the deprived schools in the Eastern Region and that had led to the poor performance of candidates in the BECE over the years.
He said the school lacked basic facilities such as a library, science laboratory, pre-technical tools, computers, electricity among others that could aid the students in their studies at school.
Mr Amesi said the trip from Donkorkrom to the Mary Mother of Good Counsel School would enable the 12 BECE candidates from his school to have access to all the facilities they lacked in their school and enhance their preparation towards the examination.
Mr Amesi appealed to non-governmental organisations to come to the aid of the school and help them acquire computers and solar energy panels to enable the students to have the needed facilities including electricity for their studies.
He also expressed gratitude to the headmistress of the Mary Mother of Good Counsel for donating three computers to the school and appealed to the general public to assist them with more.
The Local Manager of the Bebuso Roman Catholic JHS, Rev. Fr. Stephen Kofi Sakpaku, said last year for instance, the best candidate in the school had aggregate 37 and it was to help improve on the performance of the BECE candidates and to prevent the recurrence of such results in the forthcoming exams that the school management decided to expose them to a better and different learning environment at the Mary Mother of Good Counsel in Accra.
The Headmistress of Mary Mother of Good Counsel, Rev. Sr Mary Patricia Asante said after she got to know of the academic background of the candidates, she decided to assist by giving them the opportunity to interact with students of her school and also experience the teaching and learning system in the school.
She said since their arrival in the school, there had been some improvement in the students.
In an interview with the Junior Graphic, some of the students from the Bebuso R/C JHS, said they were very happy to have had this experience in Accra because they had realised the big difference between education in the city and that which they received in the village.
They were so grateful to have been granted access to all the facilities available to students of the Mary Mother of Good Counsel which they lacked in their school.
According to the students, the experience in Accra was very motivating and they cited the example where they had to communicate in English while at school since their counterparts in Mary Mother of Good Counsel always spoke English.
When the group visited the offices of the Graphic Communications Group Ltd, the Managing Director, Mr Kenneth Ashigbey promised to assit the school by supplying them with 10 copies of the Junior Graphic every week.