The Labone Senior High School (SHS) in Accra on Wednesday launched its 75th anniversary celebrations.
The year-long celebration is on the theme ‘75 Years of Academic Excellence: -Celebrating Our Past and Empowering Our Future through Technology’.
Students Career and Family Fun Day, Health Screening, Homecoming, Food Bazar, Gospel Rock Show, Bonfire, Speech and Prize-Giving Day, Gala Dinner Dance, and Thanksgiving Service are among the events scheduled for the celebration.
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Speaking at the launch, Headmistress of the school, Mrs Rejoice Acolor, thanked the government for its flagship educational policy, Free SHS, noting that “it is a policy that had undoubtedly broadened educational access for numerous students.”
She added that the school would keep shining brightly and raise the next generation by integrating cutting-edge technology.
LABONE SHS HISTORY
Labone Senior High School was started in January 1947 at La “Abormi” as La Bone College by six distinguished Ghanaians.
The motto was then “Think And Fly”. The name La Bone College was first changed in November 1957 to Ghana College.
At Independence, the first President of Ghana, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah in line with his lofty ideas on rapid socio economic development embarked on a widespread expansion of educational facilities.
In view of that the Ghana Education Trust Fund was instituted and charged with the construction of school buildings throughout the country.
Labone Senior High School was one of such schools.
The school’s traditional uniform is the Navy blue and white, and its current motto is “Primus Semper Aurora,” which means “Always First At Dawn.”
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The school is located just a few minutes drive from the Labone junction and opposite the Universal Merchant Bank, Labone branch in Accra.
