Isaac Akwetey
20 August 2008
The Victoryland Preparatory School in Koforidua, last Saturday, held its 2nd Graduation Day ceremony, under the theme, "Early Childhood Development: The Role of the Community".
Speaking at the function, the Proprietress of the school, Mrs. Victoria Hulletey, called on parents and the government to support private schools in the country, in order to provide the needed environment for effective teaching and learning.
According to her, the responsibility of bringing up the child was not the sole duty of teachers alone, but rather the commitment and contributions of the community, and parents of the child.
She explained that graduation ceremonies paved the way for school authorities, and parents to take stock of the past, and set up plans and strategies to push developmental agenda of the schools forward.
The children treated the gathering with spectacular performances, such as poetry recitals, choreography dancing and a beauty pageant, which kept the gathering on their feet throughout the function.
In all, 17 children, made up of nine boys and eight girls, graduated from Nursery One into Primary One.
Touching on the theme, the District Chief Executive (DCE) of Kwabibirem, Mr. Yaw Yiadom-Boakye, described it to be most appropriate, since that would help to mould the innocent child to develop his or her full potential.
According to the DCE, whose speech was read on his behalf, by his District Coordinating Director, Mr. Delali Nyagblodzro, said there was no early childhood development in our schools some years ago, which according to him, affected the intellectual development of the child.
He stressed that the government, through the Ghana Education Service (GES), had recognized the role and need for early childhood development, hence had embarked on various policies to establish more early childhood centres, in order to pave the way for every child of school going age, to have access to early childhood development.
The DCE explained that in order to ensure accelerated social economic development, as a country, the citizenry needed to be equipped, and enriched with knowledge and skills.
He pointed out that even though private institutions had been denied certain facilities, such as the Capitation Grant and School Feeding Programme, the government still recognized the private institutions, as partners in the education sector.
He further stated that the most important asset of every parent, was the child, hence the need to see to the successful education of the child, especially during the fundamental stages.
He launched his passionate appeal to parents, and would-be-parents, to consider their children's education as paramount among other things.
He also advised teachers across the country, to put in their best in the upbringing of the children, in order to become effective and efficient future leaders.
Notwithstanding, he called on school children to eschew negative tendencies that would curtail their future dreams, stressing the destiny of every individual, lay in what he or she wanted to do today.
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