By Stephen Appiah, GNA
Accra, July 29, GNA- The Osu Home School Old Students Association (OHSOSA), over the weekend, held a Speech and Price Giving Day, as part of activities marking its 65th anniversary celebrations in Accra.
The six-month anniversary, which started on June 29 and ends on December 15, 2019, is under the theme: “Rising to Rebuild Our Alma Mater”.
Awards were presented to some past head teachers, long serving teachers and current students, who excelled in their various class examinations.
Speaking at the ceremony, Dr. Emmanuel Sowah, the guest of honour, said education was the key to preparing people to become good citizens, not just of the nations but also of their communities and their world.
He said each child brought distinctive gifts into the world and the educational system should function to help the child maximize that potential.
“As long as schools make children feel successful daily in discovering and maximizing their potential, their interest in school would be maintained, otherwise they would resign themselves and resentfully submit to what schools want and find ways of cheating the system to be successful”, he said.
Dr Sowah said education should aim to free every individual to find his or her own destiny, to think and feel and do whatever he or she finds most meaningful and fulfilling but the students also needs to have the awareness that, the world makes its own demands, and no one was totally free to follow their impulses and desires.
“Let us refrain from being physically, verbally, sexually, or emotionally abusive of them. Remember that a child does not need to be struck on the head to sustain brain injuries. There is evidence that infants who are shaken vigorously by the extremities or shoulders may bleed within the brain or eyes with no visible signs of injury seen on the head. Physical abuse in infants and young children therefore, can lead to brain dysfunction and sometimes death. Let us teach them what to say and what to do in social situations”, Dr Sowah said.
Professor Bill Buenar Puplampu, the Vice Chancellor of the Central University and a former student said, the history of the school since 1930 had clearly shown that it had done many good things for the people.
Prof. Puplampu commended the organisers of the OHSOSA for setting up a fund to contribute to the development of the school.
“We will contribute to the fund as times goes on and I will like to pledge for myself as well as the 1974 year group to the fund and in due course contribute GHC 6,500, which represent the 65 years of the school. I want to announce a scholarship scheme for teachers of the school and we will sponsor one teacher who needs to do a degree programme at our university to motivate the teachers”, he said
The Vice Chancellor encouraged the organisers to contact each of the year groups and get them to make a particular donation and contributions.
Mr Isaac Frimpong, the president of OHSOSA said the idea behind the anniversary was to mobilize the people in an effort to support the school.
“We have initiated a fund which is the Academic Improvement Fund. The fund is for two purposes; to improve academic standards and to help the infrastructural development of the school”, he said
The President called on all old student to come on board and help rebuild their alma mater
The anniversary activities would continue on September 27, with the Alma Mater Day, to be held in Accra.
