Tema Methodist Day Senior High School

1. VISION

That staff and students will form one big family committed to the successful future of the student, such that every student who passes through MEDASS will have equipped himself/herself so well that he/she can continue the education possibly at a tertiary level.

That staff and students will acquire and continue a lifestyle based on high moral standards reflecting their own personal relationship with God.

1. MISSION STATEMENT

MEDASS, TEMA is set up with the aim of providing wholistic second-cycle education to its students. This wholistic education will necessarily encompass the three Hs: Head, Heart, and Hand. Hand, because we aim to provide excellent academic education; Heart, because we seek to help students form and relate closely to God with its reflection in high moral standards; Hand, because we aim to help students learn the need to engage in good sanitary practices through the provision of hands on experience. .

1. CREST AND MOTTO

1. A BRIEF HISTORY OF MEDASS

The Methodist Day Senior High School (Great MEDASS) was established on October 11, 1983, the first second cycle mission school in the Tema Metropolis. The establishment of the school was the outcome of a decision taken by the St. Paul Methodist Church, Community 1 at one of its Leaders’ Meetings to set up a Secondary School to help the products of the St. Paul Preparatory School get easy access to secondary education after their basic education. It was, also, in response to the need to create a third second cycle institution besides Tema Secondary School and Chemu Secondary School to absorb the ever-increasing products of the elementary schools in the Tema Township. The Superintendent Minister then was the Rt. Rev. Joseph E. Ebe-Arthur. Starting with only 33 students (20 boys and 13 girls) and five teachers, two of whom were part-timers, the student population now stands at 1054 and a total of 46 full time teachers. 

The initial vision of the leadership of the church resulted in the acquisition of a parcel of land in Community 11, on which a one-storey classroom block was built. The School then was housed in temporary classrooms in St. Paul Preparatory School; it also used the Youth Hall of the church when it saw some growth. In the 1988/89 academic year the School moved to the Community 11 site. Later the Men’s Fellowship of the church and the PTA added to the structures, namely a Staff Common Room with two other classrooms and a canteen respectively.

A new plot was acquired near the Community 11 Traffic Lights and developed with funds from the World Bank (through the Ministry of Education) and Tema Municipal Assembly. The School therefore has two campuses or sites. The Old Site, which is the original campus, houses the General Arts and General Science programmes as well as the General Administration of the School. The New Site houses the Business and Vocational Studies (Visual Arts and Home Economics) programmes, together with their special classrooms: the Art Studio, the Typing Pool, the Clothing Room and the Foods Room. The New Site also houses the Computer Laboratory and the Accounts Section of the School. 

Previous Headmasters of the School have been Very Rev. Philip Opoku-Inkoom, Very Rev. Dr. John K. Bassaw and Rt. Rev. Isaac K. Quansah. The present Headmaster is Very Rev. James K. Walton.

School telephone numbers are 022-306259/303850 and the E-mail address is medasstema@yahoo.com