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Reading Contest

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:10:07 +0100

Aside debating, reading competition sessions are often organised to help spark up the habbit of reading and learning amng school pupils. on this background a reading contest took place between the clubs in the Gwollu Schools, two representatives from each school club participated in the reading. Different Scripts were typed out from their English syllabus and the participants took turns In reading out the individual selected scripts. The panel was scoring the reading using the following criteria:-

· Proper pronunciation of words

· Appropriate punctuations

· Speed and clarity of words

· Confidence/boldness etc

The reading was highly competitive, interesting, inspiring and educative, which sparked up enthusiasm in majority of the pupils who came to witness the occasion.

Debating Contest

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 11:57:21 +0100

Efforts to achieve one of the career development objectives and of also improving academic performance in the schools, a debate competition was organized among Gwollu LA Junior high school cultural club and Wuljua junior high school cultural club on the topic “ our Culture and Tradition must be maintained in our modern Ghanaian Society” speak for or against. This was held on the 27^th November, 2010. The Wuljua School spoke for the motion while the Gwollu LA School spoke against the motion.

The key objective of this project is to build up good, fluent public speaking and reading skills among these pupils, it will also help them develop confidence and intellectual skills, and this if improved upon can mould the individual pupils into potential parliamentarians and efficient future leaders.

At the end of the debate sessions Gwollu LA School emerged as the winning school. Participants won a lot of prices in the form of books, pens, clocks and other valuable reading materials for themselves and their schools.

Baseline Survey of Cultural vocational Practices in the Sissala West District of the Upper West ...

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:11:42 +0100

The Sissala West District is endowed with silent rich creative art and culture, such as pottery, basketry, weaving, woodcarving, music, dance and many others practices since the dawn of ancient times. Some people engage in these forms of cultural practices as leisure, at times they sell their products for money which serves as a means of livelihood to them.

Over the years many of the indigenous artist, artisans, musical instrument manufacturers and poets have died without leaving traces of their art to the next generation, also the influence of formal education and western civilization has lessened the patronage of these indigenous goods. This lays a clear basis to establish the fact that in another 10-20years to come, these cultural resource people will no more be alive to practice or impart their art to the young ones or otherwise they will all diminish to totality without substantiation of their ever existence

Retrospective analysis of the culture and cultural vocational practices in the Sissala west district in the past 20 years revealed that, throughout the 57 communities in the district, 15% have potters, 1.2% existing local alchemists, 5% are carvers, 5% are weavers with only 1.5% local musicians and 0.5% musical instrument manufactures (xylophones and drums). Majority of these people have died without imparting traces of their art to the younger ones, some of those individuals and personalities who are still alive today most often do not engage in their art because there is low patronage, lack motivation and often considered as outdated. This is as a result of lack of existing modern innovative system that promotes, uphold, preserve and market these products of art and culture. Also these cultural vocational practitioners lack basic tools, knowledge and technology to improve their art. Thus reducing the patronage since the quality of their products does not meet the market standards and consumer preference, hence gradually collapsing the practice of art and craft in our communities