Fijai Senior High School, formerly Fijai Secondary School, is a
co-educational
Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education, or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together. Whereas single-sex education was more common up to t ...
senior high school located in the
Western Region of
Ghana
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. The name Fijai is from the native dialect "Afei Gyae Me", which literally means "Now, leave me alone".
History
The school got under way in 1952 as
Sekondi
Sekondi-Takoradi is a city in Ghana comprising the twin cities of Sekondi and Takoradi. It is the capital of Sekondi – Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly and the Western Region of Ghana. Sekondi-Takoradi is the region's largest city and an indu ...
Day Secondary School, as part of the 1951 Accelerated Plan for Education of the then Gold Coast Government.
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).
School was conducted in the buildings of the old Sekondi hospital.
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.
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
Notable alumni
*
Sophia Ophilia Adjeibea Adinyira, justice of the
Supreme Court of Ghana (20062019)
*
Ayikoi Otoo, lawyer and politician
* General
Emmanuel Alexander Erskine, soldier
*
Joe Baidoo-Ansah, politician
*
Paapa Owusu-Ankomah, politician
* Nana Yaa Brefo, journalist, Angel FM 102.9
* Esther Efua Dampson, KNUST, Materials Engineering department
References
1952 establishments in Gold Coast (British colony)
Educational institutions established in 1952
High schools in Ghana
Sekondi-Takoradi
Education in the Western Region (Ghana)
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