TANO SOUTH DISTRICT CHIEF EXECUTIVE EMBARK ON “MY FIRST DAY AT SCHOOL” PROGRAMME

Pupils entering class one in the basic school in the Tano South District for the first time have been asked to remember their first day at school and also been advised to continue to go to school everyday and learn hard to become useful citizens and fut

ure leaders. This advise was contained in messages the District Chief Executive for Tano Sou

th Honorable Bukari Zakari Anaba gave to pupils he interacted with in some selected Basic Schools in the District where he visited to observe the “My first day at school” programme.

The selected schools where the DCE and his entourage visited and interacted with pupils and teachers were Ankaase L/A

Primary, Derma Islamic Primary Schools, Dwomo Methodist primary School,

Bechem Islamic and Presby Primary Schools and Bechem Junction L/A Primary School.

The District Chief Executive was accompanied on his visit by the Tano South District Coordinating Director Mr. Daniel Osei Assibey, Mr. Marcus Sarpong the District Education Director and officials from both the Tano South District Assembly and Education Directorate respectively. “My first day at school” a programme observed during the first day of re –opening of basic schools for the start of an academic is to welcome new entrants to primary one with gifts ranging from toffee, biscuits and miniature caps. The Tano South Districts version of the programme saw about Seven Thousand new entrants been attended to in the Four Educational Zones of the district.

Interacting with pupils of class one in the various schools Honorable District Chief Executive and his team visited, they reminded the children that they had left their parents to join a new family which they found themselves being the school family and they should ensure that what they have started that day in the school family would go a long way to determine their career in the near future. He said the caps and other gifts they had received were gifts from the President of the Republic of Ghana and that the president urges them to learn hard, respect their teachers and always attend school to become useful citizens in future.

The DCE mentioned to the pupils that the day was a great day and also marked a turning point in their lives and should take the gifts on behalf of the president as a sign of being welcomed to the school and hoped they would stay in school and learn well.

Complementing the teachers, the District Chief Executive said he was impressed by their attendance to school on the first day and urged them to keep that up. He said the children had left their home to join the school community to learn and that the children had been entrusted in their care to teach and guide thus it is what the children would learn from them that would determine their future. He therefore entreated them not to hesitate to report their problems to the District Director of Education.

The District Director of Education Mr. Marcus Sarpong in a short address emphasized on the DCE‘s call to the teachers and therefore cautioned them to refrain from absenteeism and drinking alcoholic beverages coming to school. He said offending teachers when reported would not be spared

Similar messages of the Honorable District Chief Executive and that of the District Director of Education were carried across by the other officers who visited the other schools in the Four Educational Zones of the district also gave out gifts to the pupils.

BARNIE K. AGYEMAN

DISTRICT INFO OFFICER