Wa Senior High School (SHS), in the Upper West Region, on Friday launched its 40th Anniversary Celebration, with a call on the students to ensure discipline, good morals and to be academically smart, in order to achieve higher academic goals.
The School, which was established in 1970, as a co-educational second cycle institution, started with an initial population of 70 students and five teachers.
Currently, the School has a population of about 2,000 students, made up of 1,628 Boys and 378 Girls, with a total of 79 teachers.
Mr Jonas N. Maari, the Headmaster, said the vision of the school was to "offer students sound pre-tertiary education, based on discipline, good morals and academic excellence.
In reference to the theme: "Wa Senior High School - An emerging Centre of Excellence in ICT", he said with the support of its Microsoft Partners, the School was on the path of becoming the leading school in Ghana and in Sub-Saharan Africa in ICT.
He said the School was faced with many challenges and appealed to the government and the Old Boys Association to provide the school with street lights, classrooms and dormitories, as well as staff accommodation.
He said currently, the School Assembly Hall and the Science Laboratory were being used as classrooms for the form one students and called on the authorities to see to the speedy completion of the classroom block to save the situation.
Alhaji Issahaku Salia, Upper West Regional Minister, in a speech read on his behalf by the Municipal Chief Executive, Mr Yakubu Duogu, congratulated the headmaster, staff and students of the school for maintaining discipline and high academic excellence during the past years.
Alhaji Salia said the Regional Coordinating Council had demonstrated its commitment to help address the challenges facing the school, through the provision of bunk beds and mattresses to ease the congestion.
He said government would provide the school with street lights and a fence wall to enhance discipline on campus.
Mrs. Scholastica Gyiele, Wa Municipal Education Director noted with joy that the rampant disturbances that use to erupt between the
staff and students of the school some years ago had now become a thing of the past.
She said the Education Directorate would provide the necessary assistance for the school to become the hub of ICT not only in the region but also in the country.