LAWSEC LAUNCHES 50TH ANNIVERSARY

The Upper West Regional Director of Education Evans Kpebah says the high intake of student this year as a result of the Free Senior High School places a greater responsibility on teachers in terms of class management. 

Mr. Kpebah has therefore entreated teachers to re-double their efforts to ensure “effective teaching and learning”, culminating in what he termed “greater success than what we have recorded in the past”. 

The Regional Director of Education made the observation at the 50th Anniversary Launch of Lawra Senior High School (LAWSEC) at Lawra in the Upper West Region. 

According GBC’s Emmanuel Mensah-Abludo, the focus of the anniversary launch was “Honoring Our Past and Creating Academic Excellence for Ghana’s Future”. 

Mr. Kpebah praised LAWSEC for training great minds who are serving the nation in diverse fields, ranging from academia, medicine, business to politics. 

He cautioned students against the watching of pornography and encouraged them to be diligent with their academic work. 

The Headmaster of LAWSEC, Yeng Simon Bonsodong traced the history of the School, saying it was established on October 11, 1968 with 55 students with Alhaji Raheem Gbadamosi as the first Headmaster. 

Alhaji Gbadamosi later became the Director-General of the Ghana Education Service.  

Currently, the School has one thousand, 893 students with 631 of them being girls. 

The staff population of the School is 130 with 60 being non-teaching staff.  

Mr. Bonsodong said LAWSEC was established with the vision of nurturing young minds and developing them to take charge of their own lives and for productive roles in society intimating that the school is making waves in respect of its vision. 

The Headmaster announced that the academic performance of LAWSEC has been quite impressive and used the percentage pass rate in West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) over the past six years (2012-2017) which ranged from100 to 96.9 percent to buttress his assertion. 

Mr. Bonsodong mentioned inadequate human resource and staff accommodation, lack of Assembly Hall among others as some the challenges of the school. 

He pointed out that with the with the increased number of students, the old dining hall cannot contain all the students at a time and they are compelled to eat in batches thereby creating inconveniences for staff. 

The DCE for Lawra Martin Domotiere Bomba-Ire who is an old student of LAWSEC described the school as the building block of his life. 

Touching on the challenges of the school, the DCE indicated that the Assembly is working around the clock to help surmount them systematically. 

Mr. Bomba-Ire told the gathering that Lawra District has been penciled for elevation as a Municipality and appealed to all interest groups in the area to work assiduously for the achievement of the status. 

The Lawra Naa,Naa Puowele Karbo Who presided at the function, said it offered an opportunity for stock-taking  as well as  resetting of goals and standards for the next 50 years towards the centenary of the school. 

Naa Karbo paid a glowing tribute to the first Headmaster of LAWSEC, Alhaji Gbadamosi for buying into the vision of the founding fathers as well as setting the bar of academic excellence high for the School.

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