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      St. Thomas Aquinas Senior High School is a Ghanaian public day senior high school for boys in the Osu district of Accra in the Greater Accra Region. It was established in 1952. The school is currently located in Cantonments, a suburb of Accra. It was established to provide education for boys of the Accra Archdiocese of the Catholic church whose parents could not afford the cost of sending their male children to expensive boarding schools.


      Location


      In September 1963, the school relocated to its present, permanent site at Cantonment Street, Osu.
      The school is situated opposite the European Union office and the Civil Service Training School, laying between the Cantonment Police Station to its south and the Embassy of Togo to its north, with close proximity to the prime area of the commercial and administrative hub of Osu's Oxford Street.


      History


      On January 15, 1952, Catholic missionaries founded the Saint Thomas Aquinas Secondary School in the Greater Accra Region on the current site of St. Peter's Catholic Church.
      In order to educate boys in the Catholic tradition, Roman Catholic missionaries were in the forefront in the establishment of schools throughout Ghana. The Most Rev. Adolph Alexander Noser, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Accra, established the school with a small enrollment of fifty pupils in a two-story home near the seashore in Osu-Anohor.
      Three Society of the Divine Word (SVD) Reverend Fathers made up the initial staff: Father George Wilson and Father Fisher, Mr. Augustine Adu, Father Paul Baddoo, and the first headmaster, Father Alphonse Elsbernd. Thirty-one students and eight staff members attended the school when Father Clement Hotze assumed headmaster duties in March 1954. Hotze was aware that two key initiatives were necessary for the school to grow properly: government support and West African Examinations Council approval. Even after his efforts were acknowledged in January and April of 1957, he never got weary of working on these initiatives.
      After Rev. Father John McKillip took over as headmaster in 1957, the school was authorized by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) to submit candidates for the Ordinary Level Examination. Fr. Hotze had a 100% pass record when he submitted the first candidate for the School Certificate Examination in November 1955; this was a point in his crown because just one applicant was presented and one of them passed.


      Academics


      The school runs nine streams and five academic programmes.


      Programs




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      = Agriculture

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      Visual arts




      = General arts

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      = General science

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      Affiliation


      Aquinas has ties with its sister school, Accra Girls Senior High School, with a strong bond of students' association, which is aimed at sharing entertainments, social activities, and educational exchange, called STAAGA (St. Thomas Aquinas Accra Girls Association).


      Motto and slogan


      The school's motto is Veritas Liberat, meaning "The truth sets you free", is a Latin variant of Veritas vos liberabit from the Gospel of John chapter 8 verse 32.
      Its slogan is "BEEBƐ", a word in Ghana's native Ga language, meaning "There is no time to waste " or "waste no time".


      Awards


      For three consecutive years, 1972, 1973, 1974, the school led West Africa in the Advanced Level Certificate Examination according to statistical figures from the Education Ministry. In 2004, the school won the world cadet championship held in London. In 2013, the school was deemed the Overall Best High School in Ghana. The same year, 2013, the school won the National Science and Maths Quiz Competition.
      The school won the National Science and Maths Quiz in 2013. St. Thomas Aquinas SHS is the only exclusively day school to have won the trophy.
      In 2013, the school came first in the maiden edition of the Science and Technology Fair organized by the Young Educators Foundation (YEF), an education oriented non-governmental organization. In 2017, the school won the National Science and Technology Fair now sponsored by the government after a four-year hiatus.
      The school won the Moot Court Competition for the first time the program was introduced to the second educational cycle.
      The school emerged winners of the 2019 Gender Inequality Debate.


      Chronological list of headmasters




      Notable alumni



      Professor John Owusu Gyapong Vice Chancellor, The University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho and Former Pro Vice Chancellor, University of Ghana, Legon
      Professor George Hagan – academic and Politician (Convention People's Party's presidential candidate, 2000 general elections, Ghana)
      Professor Abednego Feehi Okoe Amartey, Vice Chancellor of the University of Professional Studies
      Professor Nii Ashie Kotey – academic and justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana (2018–2023) and Former Chief Executive of the Forestry Commission of Ghana, Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Ghana, Legon and Acting Director of the Ghana School of Law.
      Rt. Rev. D. S. M. Torto (1978 year group) – bishop, Anglican Diocese of Accra
      Most Rev.Vincent Boi-Nai – Catholic Bishop of Yendi Diocese
      Sylvester A. Mensah
      Lord Oblitey Commey - Politician and Director of Operations at The Flagstaff House, the official residence and office of the President of Ghana
      Benjamin Narteh Ayiku - Member of Parliament for Ledzokuku Constituency
      DJ Vyrusky Kofi Amoako - Official DJ of Shatta Wale and Lynx Entertainment
      Laud Quartey - footballer
      Elijah Amoo Addo - Chef and food stylist
      Yaw Amankwah Mireku - Former Hearts of Oak and Black Stars Player.
      Abel Manomey - Former Great Olympics and Dreams Player.


      See also



      Roman Catholicism in Ghana
      Education in Ghana
      List of senior high schools in Ghana


      References



      "20 top senior high schools in Ghana for year 2015". highschoolgh.com. Archived from the original on 29 August 2015.
      http://graphic.com.gh/news/general-news/40597-st-thomas-aquinas-shs-marks-63rd-anniversary.html
      http://edition.myjoyonline.com/pages/education/201306/108195.php
      http://www.saintaquinasschool.com/index.php/aquinas-shs%20/about/chronology-of-heads
      http://www.graphic.com.gh/news/general-news/st-thomas-aquinas-shs-wins-national-science-technology-fair.html
      "ST THOMAS AQUINAS SEC SH". web.facebook.com.
      Attractive Mustapha (21 March 2015). "Halifax Ansah Addo Wins 2015 GN Bank Entertainment Journalist Of The Year" – via YouTube.
      https://www.schoolsingh.com/senior-high-schools/st-thomas-aquinas-senior-high-cantoments/history


      External links


      saintaquinasschool.com, the school's official website

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