STUDENTS CHEER QUIZES LEAGUE CONCEPT

Thursday, October 6, 2005

Today at assembly, Headmaster Owusu-Achiaw told the student body about the impending Inter-Houses Science & Maths Quizes League, which was received with an uproarious acclamation by the students.

Not only are all the masters -- science and nonscience staff -- inspired by the concept, the students and contestants are eagerly anticipating the 96-quiz league which runs through the second term. The 9 houses are grouped into 3 groups of 3 each, with each house competing against the other group members twice and against each of the other 6 houses once. The winners of the 3 groups and the best second-place team will qualify for the semi-finals. That means there will be a total of 96 quizes (10 competitions for each of the 9 houses and 2 semi-final contests, a third-fourth battle for semifinal losers and a grand final). Each house will present 4 representatives (three from form 3 and one from form 2) along with 2 reserves from any class year.

Video cameras have also been procured for the school to facilitate archiving of the contests. By keeping a video archive of the contests, the contestants could not only prepare for their opponents very easily, they could benefit from the video as a learning tool. It will also help Prempeh's national quiz contestants. In fact, in 2 or 3 years, Prempeh would have a video archive so large that the school's national quiz contestants would have exposure to nearly every question under the sun and the various ways the questions could be presented at the national level. This is because of the fact that the Prempeh.Org Inter-Houses Quizes League is designed to parallel and be a carbon copy of the national quiz. One can only imagine what Prempeh's quiz achievements will be in 5 years time.

Aggrey, Serwah, Freeman and Butler have submitted their list of contestants.

The first open forum of the school year will be held tomorrow. The student body will sit down with the Headmaster and bombard him with all sorts of questions. It is anticipated that the Quizes League will the major subject of the event.