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Chase’s Academic Foundation host first high school graduation ceremony in two years
Kaieteur News – On February 6, 2023, Chase’s Academic Foundation held its first High School graduation since 2020 at the Theatre Guild in Kingston. This graduation comes two years after the school suffered challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as significant losses as a result of a devastating fire.
Chase’s Academic Foundation graduates from 2021 – 2022 along with special guest retired Chief Education Officer (CEO) Dr. Marcel Hutson (seated fifth from right front row).
Founder and Principal of the school, Mr. Henry Chase explained that over forty students were in attendance from the years 2021 and 2022.
He said, “This year, we celebrated the graduating classes of 2021 and 2022 which included 40 students all of whom secured passes in 5 or more Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) subjects.”
Top graduating students included Nyamekyeskouzena Bacchus who was the top graduating student of 2020, with 14 CSEC subjects, Ajay Kissoon who excelled in 17 CSEC subjects in the 2021 sitting, and more recently, Adam Wilson, who earned 10 CSEC passes, all ones and twos, in the 2022 sitting.
Founder and Principal of the school, Mr. Henry Chase hands certificate to the Best Graduating Student 2021, Ajay Kissoon.
In his principal’s report, Mr. Chase provided a concise analysis of the Academic performance of the year. The school recorded an overall pass rate of 73%. He noted that the pass rate for the business stream was 75%; the pass rate for the science stream was 92%, the pass rate for males was 88%, while the pass rate for females was 78%.
In addition, he said that Physical Education, Spanish, Integrated Science, Human and Social Biology, Electronic Documentation, Management Preparation (EDPM), English A, Office Administration, Principles of Business achieved between 78 – 100 % pass rates.
He went on to add that Social Studies recorded an improved pass rate from 2021. In 2021 52% students passed with grades 1-3 and in 2022, 59% of students had passed with grades 1-3.
“Economics, Principles of Accounts, Chemistry and Physics had increased pass rates from 2021. Both Chemistry and Physics saw students who received grade ones. Mathematics however, still remains a cause for concern. The school had 49% of its students passing mathematics with Grades 1-3,” he said.
Additionally, the Principal also made special mention of the students who wrote CSEC in Grades 8-10. “We continue to produce students who excel at CSEC early,” he said adding that he hopes that other schools can emulate this formula.
At the ceremony, Mr. Chase thanked his teachers and parents for their hard work and support.
He said: “Chase’s Academic Foundation will continue to provide a balanced education for our young people of Guyana; we believe that education will help graduates to live in purpose, because it provides opportunities and life skills which are needed in an emerging oil economy.”
In closing, he urged graduates to mimic the words of Dr. Letitia Wright who urged young people to live in purpose.
The guest speaker and retired Chief Education Officer, Dr. Marcel Hutson also urged the graduates to work hard and set goals, and it is by setting goals that you will live in purpose, the way God ordained.
Chase’s Academic Foundation is one of the leading private academic institutions in Guyana and was founded in 2009 by Henry Chase, who has been in the teaching profession for over two decades.
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