Three students of Corona Secondary School (CSS), Agbara, Ogun State, have bagged the Council of British International Schools (COBIS) awards; three students won the National History Awards (NHA), with one overall winner; while another student bagged Association for International Schools award.
The award presentation held at the school premises recently, had in attendance the Principal, Mrs Chinedum Oluwadamilola, teachers, organisers of the awards and students.
In her address, the excited Oluwadamilola noted that the students had made the school proud for their diligence and commitment to success adding that the school had always in its capability provided a good platform for the students to achieve an outstanding academic result.
She said: “This is an event where we are celebrating excellence. An excellence that has been validated by international organisations, not the one ‘we say to ourselves we are doing well.’ We have been participating in The National History competition for the past six years and at various levels, we have won. We have been winners at senior and junior categories but this is the first time we are combining both at the national level with one of our students winning overall, scoring 100 per cent.
“The other awards are AISA, many international schools belong to this organisation. Every year, AISA would want to reward students across the continent for excellence and we have always put on for that competition. For the first time, we won an award for excellence and for the second time we won again.”
Speaking further, she said “COBIS award cuts across various nations of the world. In all countries of the world, you find COBIS school. COBIS award is not just for academic performance but also the impact of the student in their larger community and within the school community. The award is in six categories and each school is expected to put in only three nominations and talk about what the students have done with evidence. We went in for three and we won the three.
“Despite the fact that the final students are yet to write their WAEC exams because of the pandemic, the three COBIS winners already have admissions in International universities. They all have admissions in about 15 schools with scholarships already. The scholarships are not based on only their academic performances but also on all the different things they do aside from academics. And if we sum the worth of all the scholarships, we have over two million dollars worth of scholarships awarded to some of our students”.
“What we do in Corona Secondary School is to give them that enabling environment so they are the best in whatever they are doing. We don’t only read here, you do all social activities because that is the totality of human beings and with that, it brings up abilities. Let’s learn to encourage our children to be the best in every way. People that are in the position to make and enforce the laws should give our children the enabling environment. Our children shouldn’t be what we should be playing with and I’m sure they will make us proud if we give them what they need,” she said.
In his commendations, Coordinator, National History Competitions, Mr James Onimisi, said “We are here to celebrate our students in the just concluded history award. The overall student is from Corona Secondary school. From what I have seen, they have good teachers around and they have teachable students. As we have seen, the overall best student is not offering history.”
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