Fijai Senior High School

Fijai Senior High School, formerly Fijai Secondary School, is a co-educational senior high school located in the Western Region of Ghana. The name Fijai is from the native dialect "Afei Gyae Me", which literally means "Now, leave me alone".

Fijai Senior High School
Location
Sekondi-Takoradi

Western Region

Ghana
Information
TypePublic, co-educational
MottoAd Astra Per Aspera
(To the stars through thick and thin)
Established29 January 1952[1]
Statusactive
Sister schoolMfantsipim School
School districtSekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly
GES CategoryA
HeadmasterMr Ken Abgomadze
Faculty5
Grades11th–20grade
GenderMale and female
EnrolmentYearly
LanguageEnglish
CampusAquiline Hills
Campus typeResidential
HousesAnaisie House

Dadzie House Quaye House

Tachie Menson House
Color(s)Blue-black and wine
AthleticsField and track events. Basketball game. Volleyball game.
MascotAquilline Eagle
NicknameYoung Souls.
YearbookThe Aquila
AlumniFOSA

History

The school got under way in 1952 as Sekondi Day Secondary School, as part of the 1951 Accelerated Plan for Education of the then Gold Coast Government.[1]

The school was commissioned by the Paramount Chief of Essikado, Nana Kobina Nketsiah IV on 29 January 1952 with 38 students (30 boys and eight girls).[2] School was conducted in the buildings of the old Sekondi hospital.[1]

The school moved to its current site in 1955 where it assumed its name Fijai Secondary School and recently changed to Fijai Senior High School.[1]

Emblem

The school emblem is an "Aquilline" eagle flying towards the sky and stars, through great storms and lightning as the school motto indicates Ad Astra Per Aspera, meaning "To the Stars Through Thick and Thin".

Anthem

We started young in earnest

In search of knowledge pure and true

And at our motherland behest

To give of our country of our best

And so we daily struggling through

chorus

adastra 3x,

per adua

to the stars 3x

through thick and thin

Headmasters
NameTenure
Mr. Charles Quaye1952–1965
Mr. A. R. Cudjoe1965–1973
Mr. K. C. Mensah1973–1982
Mr. J. E. Acquah1983–1990
Mr. S. K. Folson1990–1995
Mr. Isaac Blankson1996–2002
Mr James H. Rhule2002–2011
Mr. Joe Ocloo Nyamadi2011–2017
Mr. Ken Abgomadze2017–to present

Notable alumni

References
  1. "Fijai Secondary School". ges.gov.gh. Retrieved 27 January 2014.
  2. "Fijai Senior High School celebrates Diamond Jubilee". ghanaweb.com. Retrieved 27 January 2014.

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