Wesley Girls' High school, Ghana, is an educational institution for girls, was named after the founder of Methodism, John Wesley. The school was established in 1836 with 25 girls by the wife of a Methodist minister. It started as a primary school with the aim of offering girls training in reading and writing, sewing and house-keeping and more especially in moral and spiritual development. Today, www.africaalmanac.com, ranks the school 68th in Africa.
In 1954 the school was divided and the current Wesley Girls' High School was born at a separate site in Kakumdo, a site it still occupies.
In 1993, the school welcomed its first computers from the IDCE program (International Development of Computer Education) which is founded by Yasuko Hasegawa and Yu Hasegawa of the Kyoto School of Computer Science (Kyoto Computer Gakuin), Kyoto, Japan, back in 1988. In Jan, 1993, the Hasegawa family was invited to Ghana for the inauguration of the Yasuko Hasegawa Computer Center at Wesley; Attended the ceremony were Dr. Alex Ababio, then the Minister of Education, and Dr. K.A. Butah, then the Minister of Industries, Science and Technology.
The Motto of the school is: “Live Pure, Speak True, Right Wrong and Follow the King”, which emphasizes the basic tenets of Christianity. Students of the school are expected to lead morally upright lives, speak the truth all the time and correct the wrongs in society.
Student population in the school is 1,200 with 68 teachers. Twenty-three of these teachers are female, constituting about 34% of the teaching staff. The school has no day students and also no programme/subject specialisation. (Credit: The Fiankoma Project)
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