Our School
Alma Mater Education’s first school is situated in a very rural location about 1½ hours from the city of Kumasi, in the Ashanti region of Ghana. Now in its seventh academic year, it provides comprehensive secondary education for 300 students across three year groups, with 220 of them living full-time in on-site boarding facilities.
Our Educational Model
Alma Mater Education has developed an inclusive and student-focused approach to ensure that our students reach their maximum potential. By encouraging a learning environment that is open and collaborative, the onus is placed on our staff to create innovative ways of teaching the curriculum, rather than placing extreme pressure on students to perform.
Deviating from the ROTE approach adopted in most other schools in Ghana, at Alma Mater we encourage student participation and public speaking, and use practical lessons as much as possible. In Agriculture, Business, Science and Home Economics, our students work with our farm staff to incorporate the land around the school into their learning, and this is proving to be hugely beneficial to both parties.
Finally, educational attainment often comes down to the simplest things – access to textbooks, for example. Often students just don’t have the funds to purchase textbooks, and inevitably their grades suffer hugely as a result. We provide all textbooks for free and encourage students to use them as much as they want to.
Wioso Senior High teaches 300 pupils per year with 220 of them living in on-site in boarding facilities.
The School Meals Programme
Our school is situated in an area that experiences a considerable dry season, during which families often have to cut down on their meals to ration food. It is vitally important that pupils are not hungry when trying to study, which is why we place a huge emphasis on providing school meals.
Facilities
We are incredibly proud of what we have achieved in the six years since conception. Wioso Senior High began as a single classroom block, to which we added further classrooms, then a boarding house, a science lab, a home-economics lab and just recently, following our #farmtofork2020 a new kitchen and food storage facility.