Headmaster turns his 5-bedroom house into classrooms for public school
The headmaster of a public basic school in the Sekyere East District of the Ashanti Region has turned his five-bedroom house into a classroom block for his pupils. The school, Naama D/A primary, was established in 2012 by the community without classrooms and later adopted by the district assembly. Until four years ago when the headmaster, Amankwah Ampofo, voluntarily turned his 5-bedroom house into classrooms, students were forced to take their lessons under trees. Currently, the kindergarten and primary one have been merged as one class while primary two and three have also been merged as one due to lack of more rooms to serve as classrooms. Primary four and five however have separate rooms in the building as their classrooms. Mr Ampofo told TV3 he took the decision to sacrifice his building as school block for the pupils in his quest to make teaching and learning more effective. He said prior to that, whene...