PTA completes 16 projects for school

The Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) of Mpraeso Senior High School (MPASS), has, for the past six years, completed the construction of 16 development projects, worth millions on Ghana Cedis for the school.

The projects include a six-unit and five-unit classroom blocks, a two storey girl’s dormitory block, two semi-detached teachers’ bungalows, a visual arts department block, and a five-unit teachers quarters.

Others are the provision of a mechanized borehole, rewiring of the school compound, a fence wall around the school, an electricity generating plant, rehabilitation of staff bungalows and dormitories, and the construction of a place of convenience for the students.

Mr Seth Amoako, Headmaster of the school, disclosed this at a PTA meeting, which coincided with the inauguration of a five-unit teachers' bungalow, worth 3.5 million Ghana Cedis.

The bungalow will provide accommodation for five teachers in the school.

He said, the projects were funded from PTA dues, while the Students Representative Council (SRC) of the school, had also erected a sign post at the school gate, provided louver blades for the main school blocks, a community broadcasting system, barbering and retail shops, as well as the construction of an SRC office, which were funded from SRC dues.

The headmaster said, the school's management was doing everything possible to ensure high academic performance, by organizing special classes during weekends, and at dawn during the week, for final year students free of charge to enhance the students’ performance in the forthcoming West Africa Senior Secondary Schools Certificate Examinations (WASSE).

He said, payment of school fees have not been encouraging, as the school is heavily indebted to its suppliers, and appealed to parents and guardians, to pay the fees of their wards, especially the final year students.

The PTA Chairman, Mr Rexford Agyeman Boateng, urged parents to pay the PTA dues regularly, to enable the Association to undertake more development projects for the school.

The President of the Old Students' Association, Nana Akurang Wiafe, said seventeen thousand students have passed through the school since its establishment 53 years ago.

He commended the headmaster who is a past student of the school, and the PTA, for raising the standard of the school.