A classroom being disinfected
Heads of Senior High Schools (SHSs) and Junior High Schools (JHSs) in the Ashanti Region have given assurance of their readiness to support government in enforcing the coronavirus (Covid-19) safety protocols in their schools to enable final year students take their final examinations.
This came to force when Zoomlion Ghana Limited extended its nationwide disinfection of SHSs and JHSs to the region.
The exercise, a collaboration between the Ministry of Education and Zoomlion Ghana Limited, was part of measures by the government to protect students from contracting Covid-19.
President Akufo-Addo, as part of measures on Covid-19, directed final year students of both JHSs and SHSs to go back to school; expecting final year SHS students and form two Gold Track students to report today, while final year JHS pupils are expected to resume on June 29.
The President’s directive is to allow final year students to prepare well for their exit examinations.
The exercise in the Ashanti Region started in earnest on June 16, to rid the schools of germs, bacteria and viruses in both the SHSs and JHSs.
Among the schools which benefited from the exercise were the Adventist Senior High School, Our Lady of Apostles School, Asem Cluster of Schools and Atonsu Bethel Presby Experimental School.
Addressing journalists at the Atonsu Bethel Presby Experimental School, the headmaster of the School, Rev. James Dapaah, indicated that his school was putting plans in place in readiness for the re-opening.
According to him, his school has 129 final year students, adding that in observing the social distancing protocol, students would be divided into groups and would be accommodated in the form 1 and 2 classrooms.
At the Asem Cluster of Schools in the Asokwa Municipal Assembly of Kumasi, the headmaster, Samuel Asare Kwarteng, hinted that his school was counting on the support of government to make available the needed personal protection equipment (PPE).
The administrator of Our Lady of Apostles, Anne Andoh, whose school also benefited from the exercise, disclosed that her school, as part of measures to contain the spread of the Covid-19, had engaged the services of a nurse who would be tasked to take temperatures of all students and staff.
“And instead of 28 pupils in each class, we have resolved to reduce the number to 14,” she added.