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Students advised to shun bad company
Senya-Beraku (C/R), March 11, Ghanadot/GNA - The best
panacea for hardworking students to make excellent academic
and technical breakthrough is to avoid bad and unhelpful
company.
Mr Abraham N P Koomson, Headmaster of the Senya-Beraku
Secondary/
Technical School (SECTECH), gave the advice at Senya-Beraku
on Friday.
He was addressing students of the school after Mr Mowbray
Amoah; leader of a team which represented the school at an
anniversary quiz competition held at Winneba on March 6, had
presented a package of awards the school won to the
authorities at Senya-Beraku.
The quiz was organized by the Awutu-Effutu-Senya District
Directorate of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE),
with the assistance of the Awutu-Effutu-Senya District
Jubilee Anniversary Planning Committee.
Senya-Beraku Secondary/Technical School won the first
position with 67 points, followed by Winneba Secondary
School 64 points, Insaaniyya Secondary/Business School,
Kasoa, third with 43 points.
Winneba Business School had 42 points to secure the fourth
position, while the A M E Zion Girls Secondary School at
Winneba and Obrachire Secondary/Technical School also
occupied the fifth and the sixth places, respectively.
Mr Koomson was emphatic that no serious and ambitious
student could make a meaningful headway in his or her
academic, technical and vocational pursuit if one allowed
the forces of bad company to control one.
He said the desire to shun such dangerous peer groupings
must be cultivated and effectively maintained while in
school and after graduation, so that they could make
positive contributions towards national and community
development.
Mr Koomson praised the contestants and teachers of the
school who prepared the squad for their good work and
advised them against complacency, if the school was to
sustain the pride they had carved for themselves and the
school in subsequent competitions.
He expressed the hope that the achievements chalked by the
team would inspire their colleagues who did not take part in
the competition and urged the contestants to study harder to
strengthen the school's capability for such brain-works
whenever they were called to represent the school anywhere.
On behalf of the contestants Mr Amoah, a teacher in social
studies and government who led the team, expressed their
appreciation to the authorities of the school for the honour
done them and pledged to worker harder with other teachers
to bring more honours to the school in future competitions.
The competition dealt mainly with issues bothering the
history of the country, especially about matters connected
with pre-independence and post-independence Ghana.
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