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Schools have just resume yesterday the 4th of September 2012. We are at the moment admitting children into the KG one class and continue pupils are also busy settling in their respective classes. We give thanks to God for being with every one of us including the staff, pupils and parents during this few weeks of rest. We are hoping that God will continues to see us through this new academic year- 2012/2013.

                          School pupils during a clean up exercise in Kanvilli community

                                                   Girls soccer team

                          The Head master Br. Andrew Turay with  school pupils

                          Ain, Kate and Simon from St. Edward's college Liverpool

                                 School pupils at a school gathering

                           Brs. Andrew and Bonaventure during school fun games

KANVILLI R/C SCHOOL

                                                                                                                   P. O. Box ER 379,

                                                                                                                                                Tamale

Kanvilli Roman Catholic School is one of the oldest schools belonging to the Catholic Church in Tamale, northern Ghana. It has students from Kindergarten to Junior High school. The Primary section of the school was established in 1961, while the Junior High School section was started in 1990. The system of basic education in Ghana is two years of Kindergarten, six years of Primary and three years of Junior High School. The student population of the school from KG to JHS 3 is 547, with 269 boys and 278 girls.

The northern regions of Ghana are very far behind the southern regions where education is concerned. But the parents now see the importance of education and so the school faces great pressure for admission.

In 1982, education was nationalised by the then government. The Catholic Church had very little say in the running of their schools. While the government paid the teachers, there was hardly any money put in for repair and renovation of the school structures.

The last government handed the schools back to the different missions. The government continues to pay the teachers salary and give a capitation grant to the school each term. The vast majority of the students are children of subsistence farmers. The students do not pay school fees. The Government gives a capitation grant of about US $ 3 per student for the year. The grant is used to help in getting stationary and other teaching material for the school. There is hardly any money left to do much needed repairs.

The archbishop of Tamale requested the Christian Brothers to take responsibility for the running of the school and so the Brothers took charge of the school on 1^st September 2007.

The school lacks library and audio visual facilities. The new education reforms of the Government have introduced Computer Science as one of the subjects to be taught in the school from Primary to Junior High level.

The school buildings are in a dilapidated condition, with broken windows and doors and very badly damaged floors. Two of the buildings have since been rehabilitated.

There is no Staff room at present, with the Home Economics room being used at present as the Staff room. The teachers have to use the same toilet facilities as the students. The few Science apparatus, Woodwork and Agricultural tools and Library books that we have are stored in boxes.

With no fencing around the school property, the school lost quite a bit of land over the years as a result of

encroachment. Attempts to plant trees around the school has been a failure with animals destroying the fencing

and damaging the plants. The school is also used by the locals as a public toilet and a thoroughfare for vehicles.

I hope this will help as some information.