Our new friends from Calvary Presby School who are also our neighbors have been on vacation for a month and we missed them. While they were on vacation our MYP students were busy preparing learning material to be used in their next visit. During last week’s Service in Action period, the class decided to make…
For the past six years Tema International School through its IBDP CAS Programme has been engaging in community service in Akorlikope, a small village in the South Tongu District in the Volta Region of Ghana. The initial driving force was to construct a holistic school building: a six unit classroom block, a staff room, a…
As a growing, educated, and enlightened young woman, my advocacy for the empowerment of women is strengthening. I joined Girls United, a Tema International Shool CAS project initiated by Rachel Odartey-Wellington and Marie-Noelle Kpatakpa, in December last year because their core objective of empowering young girls was admirable. On Sunday, 7 May, 2017, the…
Courage is the ability to look at the challenges ahead and believe that you can conquer them. Two weeks ago, a group of Grade 11 students went out to the Legon Botanical Gardens with the hopes of teaching this virtue to children from the Handy *Vangelism Home in Haatso. The obstacle course set up before…
To walk along the shore of the sea is to leave imprints. Your steps create a trail of the path you take. These imprints, is what you leave with the sea to be remembered with. The imprints are washed into the sea and become a part of it, so that in your absence, your legacies…
Just as ‘every journey begins with a first step’, every road has an end. It takes courage to take first steps, but it takes much more courage to see the end of the road. It takes persistence, commitment, discipline and many sacrifices. And so it can be said of the two-year DP trip of the…
When the times get tough and you feel like giving up, you are often asked to resort to these two things for help: counseling and/or art therapy. So this week, as preparations for the much awaited EXPRESSION were getting heated,
On 6 March 2017, a team consisting of 5 members of the TIS Red Cross Society attended an Independence Day celebration at Kpone, Tema, to act as first aiders in case of any emergencies. This was a very interesting experience for me. Before setting off to Kpone, I did not want to go because I…
By (Samantha Azu _Grade 11, Co-Head – Chocolate Friendship Day ‘17) I always wanted to head Chocolate Friendship Day as I thought it would be a very interesting experience so when the conversation about who wants to head it came up in our skype group, I ecstatically nominated myself to be one of the two…
Hearts were set on fire with kind affections as staff and students received gifts from their dearest of friends. This is an annual tradition and everyone looks forward to it with much enthusiasm and keenness. This year’s Chocolate Friendship Day was refreshingly inspiring. The Game Changers (IB Class of 2018), under the leadership Yehowahi Sekan…
