The 2022 West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE) results showed a tremendous improvement in students’ academic performance at the Walewale Senior High and Technical School in the West Mamprusi municipality.
The headmaster, Ibrahim Sebiyam, shared details of the results at the school’s mini speech and prize-giving day ceremony on 27 May.
He said, “From the 2022 WASSCE results, the school has seen an improvement in the performance. We will award the best male and female students. Our performance in Integrated Science and Mathematics improved from 61.8% to 90.9% and 52.9% to 89.2% respectively. We have scored 100% in Applied Electricity for the past two years.”
Challenges in the school
The school is currently experiencing water crisis forcing students to walk long distances to access water outside the school premises. This is due to the frequent breakdown of the water system in Walewale.
The headmaster said the water situation is affecting students’ performance. They spend long hours in search of water. Sebiyam said, “the most affected are girls. It affects …educational development and learning outcomes. They go in search of water and come back late…they are unable to attend classes on time, even though the teachers are always there.”
The 100-seater capacity dining hall which was built in the 1960s now serves 1,965 students in its deplorable state.
The headmaster bemoaned that, “The school is in dying need of a modern dining hall and assembly hall. It is strange in our modern time for you to see a gathering like this organised in the open.
“Should it rain now, where do we go? I know the government is able; it is a special appeal that our honourable ministers and other key stakeholders present will help the school to get a befitting dining hall.”
The North East regional minister, Yidana Zakaria, encouraged students to take their studies seriously to become who they want to be in the future. He said, “To the students, you are the future of this country. I want to encourage you to apply yourself diligently to academic work. Work to achieve laurels for yourself so that in future when we step aside, you will take over the mantle of leadership.”
Last year, the school began a self-help project to build two two-bedroom apartments simultaneously. They have completed one of the apartments and commissioned it on the speech and prize giving day.
First year students of the 2022 and 2023 batches were asked to report to school with one bag of cement each instead of the traditionally-requested cutlass and hoe. The school management arrived at this decision in consultation with its parent-teacher association. The bags of cement were used for the building project.
The headmaster made an appeal to the gender minister, who was at the event, to address the water crisis so that students do not have to leave campus in search of water.
Reporting by Dokurugu Alhassan in the North East Region
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