Taviefe Senior High School

TAVIEFE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

TEL: 0289672249

1. VISION
To provide relevant education to all boys and girls at secondary education level in Taviefe and its surrounding areas to enable them acquire skills that will assist them to develop their potentials, to be productive, to facilitate poverty reduction and to promote socio-economic growth as a contribution to national development.

2. MISSION
 To provide facilities to ensure functional literacy and self-reliance for our students.
 To provide access for all who qualify for secondary education in our catchment area.
 To provide education and training for skill development with emphasis on skill training and application, and creativity based on the scientific approach.
 Combine effectively academic pursuits and community participation.
 To secure competent qualified staff to provide the training needs to facilitate administrative procedures and processes of the institution.
 To inculcate in staff and students ethical reasoning abilities.

3. SCHOOL CREST AND MOTTO
The school crest was designed by Madam Fiagbor Happy of Taviefe Dzefe.
• The dominant colour of the school crest is green. Green connotes the vegetation of the mountain on which the school is located. It also shows the focus on the up-and-coming generations who shall benefit from the school.
• The torch depicts the light that education produces to sub due ignorance-darkness.
• The book is the necessary tool for education, and finally.
• The bottle of ink is the fountain of knowledge from which education flows to the educand.

4. BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SCHOOL
Taviefe Senior High School is a co-educational institution situated about five kilometers from Ho, on the Ho-Kpedze road.
The founding of the school was the result of the vision of a few dedicated citizens of Taviefe who, in the late 1980s, saw the need to provide facilities for secondary education at home for their children and those from the surrounding areas who found it difficult to access the limited facilities that existed in the very competitive schools in Ho town, and in other second cycle institutions in the region.
In 1987, the school was started as a community day secondary school offering courses in the Arts and Vocational, courses and later on got absorbed into the public systems in 1990s. The school officially known as Taviefe Senior High School is now running four (4) programmes: Visual Arts, General Arts, Home Economics and Business.
The school is basically a DAY SCHOOL but has a well furnished hostel facility for girls and a rented apartment for boys.
IMPORTANT SCHOOL DATES
o Mr. Mable Awudzi and Doduie of SSS one won the 1st and 2nd prizes respectively in a French Competitution organized for secondary schools in the region.
o The school was connected to the National Electricity Grid on 7th July, 1997.
• On the 7th November, 1998 the school’s library block built by the Taviefe Youth Association was officially commissioned by the Regional Minister Col. C. Agbenaza (Rtd) on behalf of the Vice President, Prof. John Evans Atta Mills
o 5th April, 2003 – 15th Anniversary and 1st Speech and Prize-giving Day celebrated. Hon Rashid Bawa, Deputy Ministry of Education was the Guest Speaker.
o 16th May, 2003 – School was given an award from the Office of the Vice President for participating in the essay competition on the ‘Campaign for Greater Discipline’ The award ceremony was held at the National Theatre (Accra)
o 23rd January, 2007 – The school became the District Champions in the 50th
Anniversary Debate at AWUSCO having defeated Mawuli School, Ho, to the second position.

5. MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS OVER THE YEARS
a. The 1st batch of Form fifth (5) students had their WAEC results released in 1991 and Bansah Ivy, the first Girls’ School Prefect obtained Division 1 with Distinction 7 other students had Division 1: 8 students obtained Division 2; 4 students had Division 3; 8 students had G.C.E. and 1 failed
b. The school being the regional champions represented the Volta Region in the 2004 Milo Games Football competition held in Kumasi.
c. The school emerged the District champion in the 2007 Independence anniversary celebration debate competition held at Awudome Senior High School, Mawuli school was their opponent
d. Taviefe SHS held the first position in singing during the Inter-schools cultural and choral competition held at Agortime Senior High School in 2010. It had ever since represented the Volta Region at a lot functions including the first ever Ghana Education Council Durbar with stakeholders of education in the Volta Region at OLA Senior High School., Ho and the conference of Directors of Education at GNAT Hall, Ho, all in October, (18 and 19 respectively) 2010.

6. PROGRAMMES
General Arts: Geography, Government, Economics, Elective Mathematics, Ewe, French, Literature-in-English, Music
Visual Arts: General Knowledge in Arts, Graphic Design, Ceramics
Home Economics: Foods and Nutrition, Clothing and Textiles, Management-In-Living
Business (Accounting option): Principles of Accounting, Business Management, Business Mathematics and Principles of Costing

7. FACILITIES
a. Academic
Classrooms, I.C.T. Laboratory, Home Economics Centres, Library
b. Non-Academic Facilities
Basketball court, Volleyball field, Netball court, Football field

8. CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Sports and Games, Debate, Cultural Activities – Drama Dance, Choral singing, Army Cadet Corps

9. STAKEHOLDERS
i) Parent-Teacher Association (P.T.A.)
ii) Chiefs, Queenmothers, Assemblymen and the entire Taviefe Community
iii) The Ghana Education Service
iv) The Government of Ghana
v) Old Students Association.