SCHOOL ANTHEM
ADONTEN OUR ALMA MATER
WE UPLIFT AND HEAL THY NAME
MAY OBEDIENCE AN DILIGENCE
BE OUR WATCH WHEREVER MORE
HELP US FATHER TO LEAVE THIS SCHOOL
A BETTER PLACE THAN WE CAME TO MEET IT
SO OUR CHILDREN THROUGH THE SCHOOL
WILL BLESS YOU THEN AND EVERMORE
HISTORY
Adonten Senior High School recognizes and respects the uniqueness of each student. Adonten Senior High School was started as a private senior high school at Aburi - Akuapem on 10th January 1957 by Mr. Moses Agyare Kwabi. ADONTEN OUR ALMA MATER
WE UPLIFT AND HEAL THY NAME
MAY OBEDIENCE AN DILIGENCE
BE OUR WATCH WHEREVER MORE
HELP US FATHER TO LEAVE THIS SCHOOL
A BETTER PLACE THAN WE CAME TO MEET IT
SO OUR CHILDREN THROUGH THE SCHOOL
WILL BLESS YOU THEN AND EVERMORE
HISTORY
From 1957 to September 1963 the school was run and organized by the proprietor, who was then the part-time Headmaster and General Manager.
However, on 1st October 1963, the Ministry of Education absorbed Adonten Secondary School into the public system as a day secondary school with hostel attached.
At the beginning of the 1972/73 academic year, the government fully took over the running of the school... Students learn to follow their curiosity, to think creatively, and to work both independently and cooperatively with others.
The school's primary mission is to
1. Maintain self-discipline and moral uprightness to improve discipline
2. Provision of a congenial environment for effective teaching and learning.
3. Development of good infrastructure for the school, and beautification of the compound in terms of
i. proper landscaping
ii.regular painting of school buildings
iii. completion of a school field, and
iv. completion of a dispensary
Movement to the new site
There was an acute lack of basic facilities like school kitchen, bathhouse, toilet, administration block, dining hall, science laboratory, dormitory block and water. Originally in 1996, only classes were organized at the new site. All other activities remained at the old site. In late 1997 Adonten Secondary School was partially moved from the old site to the new site ( with the exception of female boarding students ) when the PTA put up a permanent kitchen and Public Investment Project also provided a KVIP for the school.
The library block at the new site was used as staff common room since the teachers had no other convenient place to sit. The administration block and the school library remained at the old site. Water became a major problem at the new site. Boarding boys had to walk to the old site thrice a day to fetch buckets of water for the school kitchen and for their personal use. Female boarding students complemented the efforts of the boys each morning by carrying water to the school kitchen with their school bags strapped on their backs as they climbed the hill to the new site.
One of the classrooms was used as a temporary dining hall until a structure was put up by the PTA. Students attended dining in batches since the classroom in use as a dining hall could not take all of them at a go.
Between 1997 and 1998, renewed assistance from the PTA and the Board of Governors began to result in accelerating in Adonten's infrastructure
.
The following facilities were provided around that period.
1. A mechanized borehole of water
2. A dining hall / assembly hall
3. Access roads around the school
4. A main gate to the school
5. Urinals
6. A bathhouse and a septic tank toilet for female boarding students
7. Landscaping and beautification of the school compound
8. A pickup an a Hyundai Chorus bus
9. A car park / Garage
10. Food store
11. Completion of the female dormitory block by the District Assembly and the government
12. Procurement of an electricity generating plant
13. Procurement of the transformer for power stabilization
14. Procurement of a generating plant for the mechanized borehole
Other ongoing projects initiated by the PTA include the following:
1. Girls' box room2. 2-unit Staff bungalows
3. 2-unit staff residence
4. 3-unit staff quarters
5. Boys' dormitory
6. Water storage systems concrete and poly tanks
7. Pavement of walkaways
Location: Aburi - Akuapem
