This would offer students the opportunity to develop quality job skills and bridge the gap between education and career with the ultimate aim of reducing unemployment.
The celebration was on the theme: “A Child Today, a Leader Tomorrow through Sound Education”.
According to her, career choice was a process which should start from the developmental level to shape people to fit into the world of work and its awareness should not wait until a higher level of education.
She said the current educational reforms had stated categorically that career guidance embedded in Guidance and Counselling should be the pivot upon which basic education should run but its implementation was an issue.
Miss Anang, the Director of the school, said the impact of many policies had not been felt at the basic schools due to lack of implementation and called for a stronger will to do so.
She said a larger number of counsellors at the basic schools were non-professionals hence lacked the requisite knowledge in counselling.
Miss Anang said because the service was seen as supplementary and non- examinable, it lacked the needed attention but there was the need for teachers to pursue guidance and counselling programmes to be able to shape the future of the children.
If stakeholders failed to guide children well to meet the demands of the changing environment, a time would come that all school products would not be fit for job placement, she noted.
She said there was the need for parents and educators to help young learners understand and appreciate the principles of education and give them the free will to choose the career they wished to pursue in life.
Miss Anang urged parents to constantly seek the welfare of their children by providing guidance in all aspects including spiritual guidance.
Mr Joseph Franklin Anderson, the Headmaster of the school, said the school constantly runs in-service training for its teachers to enhance their capacity thus recorded 100 per cent in the 2013/2014 Basic Education Certificate Examination.
The school which started with less than 100 pupils in 2014 now has more than 400
pupils.
Source: GNA/News Ghana
