Accra High SHS holds homecoming to mark 100th anniversary

The Accra High School has held a homecoming ceremony for former students of the school as part of activities to mark its 100th anniversary.

The homecoming attracted former students from across the country and the diaspora.

Clad in their beautiful centenary polo shirts, the past students danced to beautiful musical tunes, shared fond memories, and dined together to indicate the strong bond among themselves.

The old students also engaged in sporting activities such as 50-metre race, draughts, and five-aside football, oware, ludo, penalty shoot-out, tug of war.

In an interview with the Ghanaian Times, Headmistress of the school, Evelyn Sagbli Nabia, said the homecoming allowed all old students to reunite and relive their days in school.

She said the school had a lot of old students who had never returned to the school after completion adding that their coming back would afford them the opportunity to see the development that has taken place since they left the school.

Also, she added that others had contributed to the development of the school but had never really come to see what their monies has been used for.

“So their coming back today would enable them to also see the extent to which the money they have contributed has gone. The school has a lot of needs. It also offers a good opportunity to expose them to the other needs of the school. So that as they go back, they can think of how to support the school to go beyond where we are now,” she added.

Ms Nabia also used the opportunity to congratulate all students of the school and urged them to see the anniversary as the beginning of a new chapter.

“100 years is the end of a chapter of a school or an institution. However, it is also the beginning of a new chapter, so as stakeholders, let us come together to reopen a better and stronger chapter for our school to a new level as far as education in Ghana is concerned,” she added.

National President of the Old Students Association of Accra High School, Mr Edmund Kofi Duffour Addae, urged the current students to look up to them and be motivated that they would also be able to achieve their goals.

“We all sat here, do not look at the teacher and don’t look at the headmistress and don’t look at this school. It’s about you and where you’re coming from,” he said.

The school will celebrate its 100th anniversary and speech and prize-giving day on Saturday, November 18, 2023.

 BY JEMIMA ESINAM KUATSINU