A ONE-WEEK special vacation classes for 250 final year pupils drawn from junior high schools in the Okere Constituency, ended at the Nifa Senior High School over the weekend.
Some of the educational institutions were junior high schools at Amanfro, Okrakwadjo, Twum Guaso, Lakpa, Krutiase, Asenema and Abonse.
The programme, a brainchild of the Member of Parliament for Okere, Mr Dan Botwe, was funded with part of the MP’s share of the Common Fund and other sources, where the MP sought for funds, amounting to GH¢60,000.
It brought together the pupils, who were camped at the Nifa Senior High School and taken through the core subjects examined at the BECE and the pattern of classes conducted at the senior high school level.
Aside helping to improve the performance of the pupils at the BECE level, the programme, was also to acquaint them with life at the senior high school.
A head teacher and an assembly member, Mr Edmund Amoah, who was the co-ordinator of the programme, said the exercise had well positioned the pupils to perform well at this year’s BECE and expressed his appreciation to the MP for his initiative and support.
Mr Dan Botwe said he decided to initiate and fund the programme to improve the performance of the pupils at the BECE because in the previous years, most of the schools in the Okere Constituency scored zero per cent.
He commended the teachers for spending time with the pupils and expressed the hope that they would perform creditably at this year’s BECE.
For some time now pupils of the constituency had been scoring zero per cent at the Basic Certificate Examinations (BECE).
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