Benso Senior High/Tech

Benso SHTS

VISION

To provide access and affordable quality education to the marginalized and deprived rural pupils who would have otherwise been deprived of secondary school education due to high level of poverty.

MISSION

The school is aimed at providing a secondary and Technical school course for the award of West African Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). A firm foundation is laid for acquisition of knowledge, skills and attitude, first, for practical life and, second, for pursuing courses in any tertiary institution (University, poly techniques, colleges, etc.

 SCHOOL CREST AND MOTTO:

The school crest consists of a Book, Hoe and a Deer on to of an Elephant.

The Book signifies a store of knowledge that the youths must identify themselves with, the Hoe reminds the students of a common traditional tool that serves as souses of wealth and food to the rural poor and the Deer standing on the back of an Elephant, explains that even though the elephant is a huge animal, it is ruled by the Deer, which is quite a small animal compared to the size of the Elephant. This demonstrates that it is not in all things that size is paramount.

The Crest is supported by the motto of the school as “BE THE BEST OF YOURSELF”.

BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SCHOOL

Benso Senior High Technical School is a community based school established in line with the new Educational Reform Programme by the Government of Ghana in 1991 to provide a 3-year secondary and Technical Education. The first batch of students both boys and girls to the school were enrolled in January 1991 to pursue Technical and Agriculture Science programmes. Along the line, Business programme was introduced.

The school is located in the paramount seat of Wassa Fiase Traditional area called Benso in the Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipality in the Western Region of Ghana.

It is a day school with hostel facilities for both boys and girls.

Benso is situated between Takoradi twenty-five (25) miles to the south and to the south Tarkwa eighteen (18) miles to the north of the Western Region.

Every year in December, the school celebrates Carols Night with the Benso community.

Apart from other forum where stakeholders meet to discuss the growth of the school, this singular act brings the school and the community closer.

Information
Category – Grade B School
Gender – Mixed
Housing Status – Day& Boarding
Year of Establishment – 1991
Name of Head –
School Code – 0040906