The Wesley Girls Secondary School Old Students Association (WOGA) is putting finishing touches to the 40th anniversary of its alma mater next month.

Activities lined up for the event would begin this Saturday with medical outreach, feature a thanksgiving service, inauguration of projects, and climax with a founder’s day program on September 7.

Wesley Girls’ Secondary School was founded on September 7, 1981, and named after the founder of Methodism, John Wesley, during the administration of Alhaji Lateef Jakande as governor of Lagos State. The school, formerly named Methodist Girls High School II, was renamed Wesley Girls’ Secondary School. The school was separated into a Junior and a Senior Secondary School under Senator Ashiwaju Bola Amed Tinubu’s administration.

Elder Adebisi Adebo, an octogenarian, was the pioneer principal of the school which currently has Mrs Kehinde Meroyi at the helm of affairs.

Speaking on the milestone, Mrs. Meroyi said that the celebration was necessary because the school had improved tremendously in all areas, including: structures, improved teachers and students performances, among others.

The school has undergone a lot of metamorphosis. It has evolved. If we talk about structure we have functional buildings then, and now we have prototype building.  I am sure that people who were here as the first set would know that the school has really changed.  In terms of teaching and learning too the school has improved. Our teachers are now 21st century teachers using the new strategies in teaching and learning. In the area of maintenance of the school, the government is doing a lot to ensure that the school is well maintained.  Everything in order,” she said.

Mrs Meroyi also praised WOGA for contributing towards the school’s progress by helping indigents and donating a well-equipped economics laboratory.

“WOGA has also helped to contribute to improvement in the school. They built the home economics laboratory; they have employed an home economics teacher too and they have been paying her for like two years now.

“We had students that want to take NECO but did not have the money; they have also helped in that area. So, they sponsored about 13 students last year for NECO and a lot of things that has brought about improvement in the school, “she said.

Mrs. Meroyi said projects like construction of a new school gate, laying of interlocking tiles in the school compound and renovation of the science laboratories to be inaugurated were ongoing.

Source: The Nations newspaper