Juaben Senior High School

JUABEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

JUABEN ASHANTI

1. INTRODUCTION & HISTORY

The school now known as Juaben Senior High School has a long chequered history. It started as a girl’s school with the name Juaben Methodist Girls Boarding and Day school in 1950. It started in temporary premises with eighteen day scholars. It was to be an experiment in co-operation between the Church and the local authority in providing boarding-school education for primary 3-6. The basic experimental school was headed by Ms. Odoom

Nana Yaw Sarpong, the then Omanhene of Juaben Traditional Area played significant role in this and also donated 64 acres of land on which the school is presently sited.

After twelve years of its establishment the school was changed to a Women’s Training College. The Training College started on 25^th October, 1962 with 27 students and two tutors namely E.T. Glante and Mrs. H.M. Dolling. When the College was in the third year Mrs. Rose Coker took over form Mrs. Dolling, the acting Principal, as the substantive Principal on 23^rd October, 1964.

The Training College also existed for only 10 years. Thus on 3^rd November, 1972, it became a mixed Secondary School with the name Juaben Secondary School. The Secondary School was opened with 87 students.

Mrs. Rose E. Coker doubled as the Principal and the first Headmistress. The population of the school as at the end of the 2009/2010 academic year stood at 1932. This was made up of 320 Day students and 1612 boarders. The ratio of boys to girls is 1066:866.

The school is currently headed by the Very Rev. Isaac Osei Boadi – the fifth sustantive Headmaster and the first Methodist Minister to have headed the school.

LOCATION

Juaben Senior High School is located at Juaben, nine kilometers off Ejisu-Effiduase road in the Ashanti Region.

CHRONOLOGY OF HEADS OF THE SCHOOL

2. VISION

Assist students to develop all their innate abilities so that no child is found loitering about aimlessly in town to create social problems.

Create confidence in students through Music and Arts competitions and club activities. Students who are innovative are duly acknowledged and rewarded.

(iii)    Develop young men and women who are well educated, well groomed and disciplined with high sense of integrity.

3. MISSION STATEMENT

Juaben Senior High School exists for academic excellence holistic growth and development for its students through dedicated teaching, sound religious and moral instructions that thrive well in a peaceful environment and good health with the collaboration of all stakeholders so as to produce responsible, respectful, and well-related citizens who can pursue tertiary courses of specialization and function well in every endeavour of life.

4. THE SCHOOL CREST

The school crest was designed by using the following items.

A chapel: – signifying that the school is a mission school; hence religious ctivities are paramount in the school.

A Bible:- this is the holy book of Christianity. The school, therefore, cherishes the word of God as a major source of the spiritual and moral well being of the students and others within the community.

A lion:- beneath the chapel and the bible is a lion. It is the totem of the Juaben Traditional Area. Thus the school recognizes the partnership that exists between the school and the traditional authorities.

MOTTO

The motto of the school is:  “NYAMESURO MA NIMDEε” meaning Fear of God gives Wisdom.

SLOGAN:   “ASAGYEFO – AKOFO NE YεN”.

5. ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES

General Arts:  Geography, Christian Religious Studies, Literature In English, History, Government, Economics,

Elective Mathematics, Twi, French

Science: Physics, Chemistry, Elective Mathematics, Biology, Geography

Agriculture: General Agriculture,  Animal Husbandry, Forestry    , Physics, Crop Husbandry & Horticulture, Chemistry, Elective Mathematics

Business: Business Management, Financial Accounting, Economics,  Principles of Cost Accounting, Elective Mathematics

Visual Arts:  Economics, General Knowledge in Art, Graphic Design, Picture Making, Textiles, Leather Works

Home Economics: Foods & Nutrition, Clothing and Textiles, General Knowledge in Art, Biology, Economics, Chemistry

6. SCHOOL ANTHEM

Soar high and high like eagles

Students of Juaben Senior High School

Soar high and high like eagles

No yoke can bring you down

With love, truth and honesty our hall mark

We’ll strive for excellence in the fear of God

We will serve our Nation, with our might and strength

In every quarters we’ll be called to serve

Asagyefo! Asagyefo!!

We are soaring high to serve our Nation in the fear of the Lord.

Composed by: Lewis Asare (Biology Tutor – 17^th July 2007)