Some old students of OLA Boarding and Catholic Girls’ School in Elmina in the Central Region, now Queen of Apostles and Catholic Girls’ School, have as part of the 140 years anniversary of Our Lady of Apostles, launched its alumnae, with a maiden homecoming over a three-day long weekend at school in Elmina.
Activities included a walk around the classrooms to interact with the children and teachers on Thursday, a health walk and health talk on Friday, followed by a night of fireworks and movie night with the pupils.
The third and durbar day to commemorate, as part of OLA schools, the 140 years of existence of OLA schools transforming and inspiring younger girls to become great future leaders.
The old students of Queen of Apostles and Catholic Girls’ School also presented 40 dual desks, and some sewing equipment to the school to help improve the quality of teaching and learning.
Speaking to Citi News on the sidelines of the celebrations, the headmistress of Queen of Apostles School Rev. Sr. Benedicta Comfort Asomontsi, expressed her appreciation to the old students of the school for their support.
“We are grateful to the old students of the school for showing us love. The students are also happy because it will encourage them to emulate what their predecessors have done. This is their home forever until they leave this world, but as headmistress of the school, I will one day leave after serving my term in office. As a mother, you feel elated when your children come home to visit you and so that is the kind of excitement on the faces of the students now,” the headmistress added.
She also explained that one of the major challenges confronting the school is the lack of adequate space to take in more students.
According to her, although this challenge is not affecting teaching and learning, it makes it difficult to admit more.
“Our class size is such that we are able to take in only 26 students in a class and although it’s not affecting teaching and learning. We wish to admit more since admitting more means getting more resources to support the school,” the headmistress stressed.
Representative of the Member of Parliament for Komenda Edina Eguafo Abbrem at the event, Philip Bosomtwi Amoah reiterated the need for young girls to focus on their education, urging them not to be disrupted by indulging in early sex or any other form of vices.
He advised the young students to abstain from sexual activities and any other forms of advances from men, and instead report such incidents to higher authority for action.
“As young girls, you must be careful of advances from the opposite sex and instead focus on your education. If anyone older than you is making sexual advances at you, report it to an authority. But one other thing I think is a disruption to the girl child is the overburdening of the girl child with household chores at the expense of his male counterpart who is given the leeway. This is not a good practice since it serves as a disruption to the education of the girl child,” Philip Bosomtwi Amoah noted.
Juliana Essuah an old student of the school who spoke on behalf of the group, expressed the group’s satisfaction in showing love to students of the school, assuring the group’s continuous support for the students to inspire them to aspire to greater heights.
“As old students, we decided to join the school to celebrate One Hundred and Forty years (140) of its existence and also to spend time with the students and inspire the younger girls to aspire to be where we find ourselves today. We presented some dual desk, sewing machines and other sewing equipment as a way of giving back to the school as old students,” Juliana Essuah said.
A cake was cut to commemorate the anniversary celebration.
