To promote effective teaching and learning in a secure environment, the Cape Coast Presbyterian Church Basic School has called for improved facilities.
As a result of the COVID-19 spread, the school management said the institution needed space to contain the considerably large numbers.
Some of the primary level courses, for example, have as many as 102 students, while others have between 80 and 90 students.
Some of the students have resorted to using gallons for furniture as a result of the insufficient furniture and in regard to the physical distancing COVID-19 protocols.
The primary school head teacher, Ms Regina Ohenewa Adofo, said the school required space, “particularly during this pandemic, when physical distance must be observed by pupils.”
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She said this when the St Paul’s Presbyterian Church responded to the school’s appeal with furniture and canopies.
The church provided the school with 30 mono-desks and three canopy spaces.
The Second Minister of the Church, Reverend Benjamin Ofori Twum, who represented the Minister of the Presbyterian Church of the Cape Coast District, said the donation was in response to the school’s appeal to the church for help.
To ease the furniture issue, the mono desks were given to the JHS Department while the canopies were handed over to the Primary Department to help decongest the classrooms in accordance with the safety protocols of Covid-19.
In compliance with the COVID-19 safety protocols and for successful teaching and learning, Ms Ohenewa Adofo said there was an immediate need to break down the number of pupils in the classes into small sizes.
However, she suggested that the school did not have the requisite facilities, adding that the school campus was used by intruders as a thoroughfare, often disrupting teaching and learning, and called for a school wall.
In order to help improve the hand-washing protocol, Ms Adofo also asked for water supply for the school’s .
Ms Vivian Boadu, JHS Headteacher, said the presentation of the furniture had come at a time when there was an urgent need to adhere to the safety protocols of Covid-19.
She said they were forced by the large numbers of students in the school to take over a two-unit classroom that belonged to the nearby Mensah-Sarbah School to accommodate the students of JHS.
Again, she said the common room of the workers had been transformed into a classroom while the teachers used the veranda as the staff space and thus called for a new classroom block to ease the burden caused by the lack of structures.
Mr Eric Arthur, the chairman of the church’s education committee, said the church was committed to the growth of its schools and would continue to support basic needs that would promote both teaching and learning.
SOURCE: ATLFMONLINE
