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6:30 pm: Saturday Entertainment Night Of course, one could never win against the ‘white shirts’ as we called the
9:00 pm: Lights Out Bell (Juniors) Sixth Formers, and so we became the de facto guilty party. Our by then
10:00 pm: Lights Out Bell (Seniors) rather stellar reputation for mischief certainly didn’t help!

Sunday: Remember how we all got into trouble because some of our mates did
5:30 am: Rising Bell – five rapid and short rings for precisely 2 seconds not just out-dance the seniors during the Maximum Impact Funfair in
6:15 am: Cleaning Bell Form One, but apparently also ‘missed the bus’ boogieing to Kriss Kross
6:30 am: (Catholic and Anglican Mass) and ignored the junior’s lights out bell??!! Oh the sheer impudence and
6:45 am: Inspection Bell temerity of these Form One girls! We were certified, to quote Archie,
7:00 am: House Devotion “impish, irkish, incorrigible, proud, cantankerous, arrogant spoilt girls!”
7:30 am: Breakfast Bell
8:00 am – 1:00 pm: (Christian Fellowship; Club Activities; Personal Time; Now you would think that after that chastising and fairly traumatic
Study Group) incident the bell wouldn’t toll for us again right? Ah, that would be
1:30 pm: Lunch Bell wishful thinking indeed!
2:00 pm: Rest Hour Bell
4:00 pm: Rest Hour Over So the last time the bell tolled for us was during the election of our
5:00 pm: Sunday Church Service for entire School senior prefect in Form Two when we dared to go against the School’s
6:30 pm: Sunday Supper preferred choice. Vox populi indeed! Oh Archie was right; despite our
7:00 pm: Supper Over mischief and notoriety we were so dynamic that we could do great
(Flushing of toilets by Form One girls before lights out) things once we came together! But that is a story for another time.
8:00 pm: Lights Out Bell (Juniors)
9:00 pm: Lights Out Bell (Seniors) Suffice it to say, the tradition of tolling the bell is one that should be
revived. Yes it is quaint and outdated, but it is also quintessentially Gey
Anytime the bell tolled outside of these set times, you knew there was Hey!
either an emergency situation, or someone or some class was in BIG Besides, let’s face it; no siren (ice-cream truck variety) could ever replace
trouble. the charming sounds of a tolling bell.
And so it was for us the day the bell tolled at mid-day because of the
infamous ‘vicious rumour-mongering’ saga full of ‘she told me’, ‘she By Victoria Sekyere-Abankwa with contributions from Akua Asare (nee Ampofo-
said, she said’. Come and see naughty Form One girls, and the few Sixth Twumasi) (Bell Prefect 1995 – 1996) & Phyllis Owusu-Adjapong
Formers involved, stammering and trembling in their boots at the
Sanhedrin style inquisition!

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