Inadequate class­rooms and other educa­tional facilities at the Asebi D/A Basic School in the Shai-Osudoku District of the Greater Accra Region has led to academic work being held under trees.

The situation is affecting aca­demic performance at the school which has 300 pupils and 15 teach­ing staff.

To this end, the Head Teacher of the school, Mr Patrick Narh Lawer, has appealed to benevolent organisations to go to the aid of the school, and provide classrooms in order to enhance teaching and learning. • Staff carrying out administrative work under trees He said the school sometimes merge some of the classes when it rained.

He explained to the Ghanaian Times upon a visit on last Friday that while each basic school ideally needed 11 classrooms to accom­modate the pupils, the Asebi D/A Basic School currently had only nine classrooms.