By Felicitas Kirsten and Maire Behlau | project interns
Start of the 2025/2026 school year
Dear members and friends of Arise,
Since September 8th, we’ve been back to school after the holidays. We had a wonderful start with familiar faces, but also some new students whom we would like to warmly welcome again!
We’ve already had some exciting events, and we would like to share a little insight into them with you today.
Enjoy reading!
„My Beloved Ocean“ Drawing-Competition
From September 22nd to October 2nd, we prepared for this years „My Beloved Ocean“ painting contest. This included a trip to the beach to gather inspiration for our paintings. We explored the uniqueness of the underwater world and learned about the dangers, the ocean faces every day. The competition took place in our dinig hall on October 3rd.
Elections for our student councils for the 2025/2026
school year
The week from October 1 to October 6 was a very exciting one for both the students and all the teachers. All students from grade 4 to Junior High School 2
(JHS 2) had the opportunity to run for student council. On Friday, October 3, they held campaign speeches and presented their pals and ideas. The elections took place the following Wednesday.
The following students were elected:
Head of Student Government: Joel Mensah (JHS 2) and Anabel Nhyira (Assistant (JHS 1))
Secretary: Grace Esi (JHS 1)
Protocol: Chief Kuffour Christian (JHS 1)
The following students were elected to other positions:
Stephen Amoako (Class 4), Empress Idama (JHS 1), Prudence Brown (JHS 1), Kingsley Baah (Class 4), Elvis Darkwa (JHS 1), Benedict Adom (Class 6) and Latifa Inusah (Class 5)
We congratulate all elected student representative!
First quiz of the year - Team Red wins!
Our first quiz of the year took place on October 10th. The students were able to demonstrate their knowledge in math and science. team red took first place. Congratulations! We’re already looking forward to the next quiz and are excited to see, whether team brown, team blue or team green will prevail next time.
Our new interns for 2025/2026
In August, we welcomed our two new weltwarts-volunteers, Maire Behlau (19) and Felicitas Kirsten (20). Both are from near Hamburg, Germany. We are looking forward to many exciting projects and activities with them.
For further insights from the past year, please read our annual report. We sincerely hope and wish that the school year continues as friendly and exciting as it began.
See you soon,
Your Arise-Team
Attached you will find links to our annual report of 2024 and our latest newsletter (august-october 2025).
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