The Asesewa Methodist Junior High School (JHS) has devised a strategic way to prepare its form three (3) students for this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), which is slated to begin on Monday, 8th July 2024.
Marking the first assessment of the Ghana Education Service’s (GES) new curriculum, the candidates sitting for this year’s BECE exams will shift away from the usual subjects to writing new courses, including Creative Art, Career Technology. and computing. The rest are Mathematics, English, Science, Social Studies, Ghanaian Language and Religious and Moral Education.
Meanwhile, French and Arabic will be alternated among schools, based on what candidates studied.
According to the school’s headmaster, Mr Peter Danso, the idea to camp students in the school came after most of the students complained about some conditions that hindered their learning at home, thus the decision to camp them (students) in the school.
He made this known during an interview on Trust FM’s Agoo Ghana Morning Show on Thursday, saying, that even though students may have different reasons for their inability to learn effectively at home, the idea of camping was discussed with the school’s Parents Teacher Association (PTA), School Management Committee (SMC), and the leadership of the Asesewa Methodist Church.
Mr Danso noted that measures have been put in place to ensure that students are well guided to instil discipline and to also prepare them for the next level of their education, adding that, students are encouraged to bring particular personal effects; prescribed by the school.
He said the decision was to make sure all students looked and felt equal without any emotional or psychological downgrade on other students who may not have the financial capacity to afford certain items.
According to him, his team was relying on the benevolence of well-wishing parents and individual support since camping the students came with a cost, highlighting that some parents have been providing support both in kind and in cash, with some other students with special diets having their parents bring food from home to their wards.
He said the need to prepare the students within this short time had again become necessary since this year’s BECE is the first of its kind, thus the reason to prepare adequately before the commencement of the examination.
Mr Danso thanked the Assembly member of the area, Honorable Daniel Kwesi Tettey for his selfless support both in kind and in cash, saying that, he had been a master key to the whole idea of ensuring that the school in his electoral area had the best, while praying for the general public to come in and emulate the Assembly Member and other parents.
Asesewa Methodist JHS had students scoring aggregates of 7, 8 and 9 in 2021, 2022 and the 2023 academic BECE assessments, respectively.
Students, who represented the school in the Eastern Region for the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communication (GIFEC), a programme meant to augment the government’s investment in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, placed 3rd, 17th and 34th among one thousand participants across the region.
