Nii Martey M. Botchway
Accra, June 24, GNA – Dison International School (DIS) has marked its 10th anniversary with a pledge to introduce Cambridge Advanced level Education (A level) to enable its students who have completed their International General Certificate of Secondary Education exams to further their education in the school instead of pursuing their A levels at other schools.
The school, which runs the Cambridge Curriculum was established as a fully-fledged International school in September 2013 to give its students unfettered access to a holistic global education.
The 10th anniversary celebration was being climaxed with a graduation and, speech and prize-giving ceremony to recognize deserving students, staff and parents of the school.
Speaking at the school’s inaugural speech and prize-giving day in Accra last Saturday (June 24), Mr Alexander Nnoma-Addison, Executive Director of the School, said that plans were far advanced to introduce the A level in the 2024/2025 academic year beginning September 2024.
Mr Nnoma-Addison who revealed that the school had so far seen four batches of its learners completing the Cambridge Primary Checkpoint examinations, said the introduction of the A Level will mark another important milestone to the school’s academic profile.
“We are proud and thankful for the opportunity to offer the A Level,” he said.
The Executive Director in expressing appreciation to the management and staff of the school said “DIS would not have gotten this far without the hard work and diligence of our teachers, non-teaching staff, management and our cherished parents who have partnered with us over the years to help teach and nurture their children.”
Mr Robert Ahiabenu, the School’s Principal, said DIS presented 15 candidates for the primary checkpoint last year and noted that in total, the School scored 5.4/6.0 school average against a global average of 3.9/6.0 in the English Language while scoring 5.9/6.0 average against the international average of 3.8/6.0 in Mathematics.
He also mentioned that the school scored a 5.9/6.0 average against the international average of 4.0/6.0 in Science.
“Our checkpoint experience has been a great propeller for our forward march as we embrace the newly introduced Cambridge Early Years Programme, and starts the Cambridge Advanced Level Programme in September 2024,” he added.
For his part, Alex Amankwa, the Unit Head of Learning Disabilities, Special Education Division of the Ghana Education Service Headquarters, stressed the need to intermingle social and emotional literacy to revamp the country’s educational system adding: “Education should be project, research and collaboration”.
The country, he said could not develop by the use of prescriptive character education in its curriculum.
He, therefore, recommended the use of descriptive character education at all levels through research and collaboration.
GNA