Kommenda Senior High School

KOMMENDA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

1. VISION STATEMENT

The school shall strive to transform itself into a favoured national institution

2. MISSION STATEMENT
To give vocational, intellectual, social and moral education to its products to make them acceptable to the society and to themselves. The school shall therefore blend study, work, play and prayer in its programmes.

3. SCHOOL CREST AND MOTTO
The coat-of-arms of the school is a shield of four apartments resting on the cushion of the school motto “Dzinpa Ye Sen Ahonya” Being a community school, the motto influenced its mission statement. The left top quarter is a torch of liberty a symbol of inspiring leadership. The right top quarter bears technical instruments: set square, hammer and a pair of compass signifying the building component of the technical bias of the school.

The left bottom quarter has a tree-signifying the agriculture programme and the greenery of the environment. The right bottom quarter is a Bible symbol of perpetual knowledge and wisdom.

4. BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SCHOOL
Komenda Secondary Technical School now Komenda Senior High Technical School was established in accordance with PNDC law 207 as a community, Co-educational, Day Secondary School in January, 1991. It was housed in a Second World War Barracks bequeathed to the Komenda Traditional Area by the Air Wing of the Royal Navy after the Second World War 1939-45. The barracks had served as the Experimental Junior Secondary School-1987, which transferred to Aldersgate at Komenda to make room for the Secondary Technical School. Today, by reason of the Computerized School Selection and Placement System, Girls and Boys’ dormitory blocks are available for the other students from outside the community.
The school is located on the northeast part of Komenda College and about 2.5 km from Komenda township.
STATUS
The School is not a fully accredited boarding School but it has a Day and Hostel Facilities.

5. IMPORTANT SCHOOL DATES
 Sat, 14th October, 1995
 Founders’ Day, Inauguration of the first Board of Governors
 1st Commissioning of the new School buildings and Speech and Prize-Giving Day Sat, 11th October,1997
 Sat, 2nd March, 2002 – 10th Anniversary/4th Speech Day.
 19th September,2006: Inauguration of the third Board of Governors

6. MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS OVER THE YEARS
 SSSCE
The 1996/97 academic year group obtained the best SSSCE results.
 WASSCE
The 2006/2007 academic year group obtained the best WASSCE results, with Business Department obtaining 100% passes in Cost Accounting.
The Home Economics Department also scored 100% passes in Food and Nutrition in both the May/June 2008 and 2009 WASSCE.
 REGIONAL GAMES
The school for the first time since its inception was represented by master Richmond Cobbold(3Technical) in handball in July,2009 and placed second out of the ten competing regions.

7. SCHOOL FACILITIES
 Academic
There are fourteen (14) permanent classroom blocks with twelve (12) also under construction and close to thousand (1000) textbooks.
Library complex and administration block is also under construction.
 Non Academic
A volley ball and handball courts for recreation.

8. ACADEMIC PROGRAMS
a. General Programme: Biology, Chemistry, Economics, Mathematics (Elective), Physics
b. Agriculture Science: Crop Husbandry, General Agriculture, Chemistry
c. Business programmes: Accounting, Business Management, Economics
d. Technical programmes: Building Construction, Technical Drawing, Wood Work
e. Vocational programmes: Ceramics, Food and Nutrition, Management in Living, General Knowledge in Art

9. CO-CURRICULA ACTIVITIES
Sports, Singing (school choir), Cultural Display, CATHSU (Catholic Students’ Union) Meetings, GHAMSU (Ghana Methodist Student’ Union), PENSA (Pentecost Students’ Association), Entertainment Programmes, Guidance programmes, Inter-Houses’ Quiz Competitions, Field Trips

10. STAKEHOLDERS
 Old Students
Since its inception, the school has trained about 2,000 Old Students.
 Parent-Teacher Association (P.T.A)
The current PTA of the school was inaugurated in 2008. Ms Georgina Efua Cudjoe is its current Chairperson.
 Traditional Authority
Nana Kodwo Kru II is the Omanhen of the Komenda Traditional Area. He has been assisting the school as and when the school needs his help.
 Municipal Assembly
This Assembly assisted the school with the provision of one hundred (100) mono-desks in 2006.
Rev. Mrs. Veronica Essuman-Nelson is the current Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abirem (KEEA) Municipality.