Holy Child School, is a second-cycle all-girls residential school in Cape Coast, Ghana’s Central Region. The school produced the top female student overall in the 2003 Senior Secondary School Certificate (SSSCE) Examinations, placing it among the top 10 schools in Africa.
Jochebed Adwoa Sutherland, the top overall student, and Audrey Emefa Awuttey, the second-best overall student for the 2017 West African Senior School Examination (WASSCE), both graduated from Holy Child School.
In order to encourage female students to aspire for greater heights and develop into “Women of Substance,” the school has always taken pleasure in offering a complete education to female students. Facta Non Verba, which basically translates to “Actions Not Words,” is the school’s motto.
Uniforms
The primary colours that reflect in all official dresses worn by students of Holy Child Senior High School is Brown and Yellow. These colours
Students wear a brown skirt and a yellow shirt as a school uniform (Fig. 1).
Fig. 1
Fig 2
The image in figure 2 also form part of the school’s prescribed uniforms for other occasions.
Conclusion
The ideas of liberty and trust are symbolized by the two primary colours in Holy Child’s school uniform.
As it is the school’s goal to create and build women of great value to themselves and to the nation, the school authorities ensure to instill discipline in the girls. One way they do this is by making students adhere to the dress code of the school.