28-06-15
The Director of Fountain Gate International School,
FGIS, Reverend Mrs Rosemond Anaba, has
said that the school hopes to maintain high academic standards with the view to
coming out with products that will contribute to societal transformation in the
next coming years.
Rev. Mrs Anaba was addressing participants at a colourful event to mark
the school’s 15 years of academic excellence in Bolgatanga, the Upper East Regional capital.
Correspondent Isaac
Asare was there for Radio Ghana and has filed this story.
Report
Since its establishment in September, 1999 s a
faith base school, the Fountain Gate International School has presented 8 batches
of candidates for the BECE and has had 100 percent passes and an average of 80
percent distinctions and is still striving
hard to make it even better.
The school which is a subsidiary of the
Fountain Gate Chapel is recognized as one of the most outstanding schools in
the Upper East and Ghana as a whole.
From a humble beginning, the
school since March 2011 up to date had produced candidates for Presidential
awards for having achieve the best results in the BECE.
Aside the successes
chalked in the area of education, the school has performed tremendously in
other extra curricula activities including quiz and soccer competitions as well
as debates organized at the local level.
As the school’s logo portrays, the
Fountain Gate International School will stop at nothing to achieving academic
excellence considering its vision of accomplishing a holistic development of the
child that will release his or her potential in order to influence other people
positively.
The 15 years anniversary of the school was therefore to highlight
the gains made in the area of academics and also weight its prospects in the
coming years.
Speaking to Radio Ghana
after the event, the Director of the school, Reverend Mrs. Rosemond Anaba, said
excellence has been the hallmark and with the continuous effort of its dedicated staff, the school has gone the extra
mile to shape the destinies of the children by helping them to build a strong
foundation of moral fortitude.
For her, the future of the
school looks much brighter as it seeks to support the child develop a self-driven desire to
acquire skills and knowledge, which will be beneficial to them and influence
others positively.
She said with a dedicated qualified staff and the resources
at their disposal, the school was poised to produce personalities that will
effect a change in society.
Rev. Mrs Anaba mentioned lack of a library complex as
one of the challenges of the school and appealed to stakeholders to assist in that regard.
In a quick response, the Upper East Regional Minister,
James Zuuga Tiigah, donated a sum of four thousand, 500 Ghana cedis to support
the construction of the library project.
He urged parents to consider the
education of their wards their utmost priority and instill in them moral
uprightness to enable them become responsible adults.
There was a display of
artifacts by some talented students of the school.
The exhibition of the
artifacts were displayed to the admiration of the participants especially
parents.
GBC
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