Our School is co-educational and is strategically located at 74 Eta Agbor Road, Calabar. We give mission-type education to children from age 10-17, developing their moral and academic well-being within a serene and conducive environment.

As a mission school under the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria, we are sustained by three pillars:

DISCIPLINE,

ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE AND

THE FEAR OF GOD.

 

OUR MOTTO

Mens Sana In Corpore Sano-

Building a sound mind in a sound body.

Preamble

In Mary Slessor Academy, we strongly believe that no one is ever raised in a moral vacuum. Every mentally balanced human being recognizes basic rights from wrongs. Whether a person is brought up as a Christian or not, he or she is taught from toddler on the fact that they should not lie, steal, cheat, or be deliberately rude and that there are consequences for doing so.

In tandem with our determination to build a stronger and reliable school system, we will therefore insist on character training, discipline, academic excellence and the fear of God. It is against this yardstick therefore, as a Mission School that we decided to come up with a document of this nature which will serve as a guide to every student who is ready to pass through Mary Slessor Academy.

It should be noted that this document – Rules and Regulation, is not prepared to hold us back or keep us from having a good time. It is not equally prepared to enslave the students rather it is to serve as a control guide to make the students become obedient and law abiding. It shall be the first duty of every student to leave Mary Slessor Academy better than they met it.

The school was founded in 2005 by the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria, Calabar Synod Education Authority during the tenure of Elder Chief O. O. Awatt as Chairman.

Academic activities started in the school on 1^st September, 2005 and on 17^th October, 2005; the School was named after a great woman of God, Mary Mitchelle Slessor, who served God and man diligently as a Missionary in Calabar and its environs. The School is called “The Baby” of Calabar Preparatory International School.

The pioneer principal of the school was Rev. (Mrs.) Emma Ebong, who acted in that capacity until a substantive Principal was appointed in the person of Elder Egwu Irem Igiri on the 10^th of March, 2006. The first Vice Principal was Rev. Godwin Akang (who also served as a Business Studies Teacher). The School started with five teaching staff, one non-teaching and ten students. Since then, we have had three substantive Principals:

Elder Egwu Irem Igiri – 2006 to 2013

Prince Samuel Ikpeme – 2013 to 2014

Mr Edet Inyang – 2014 till date.

The School Motto:

The motto of the school states thus:

MENS SANA IN CORPORE SANO meaning “a sound mind in a sound body”.

 

 

 

The school song is RCH No. 371 (From Greenland Icy Mountains)

1. From Greenland’s icy mountains,

From India’s coral strand,

Where Africa’s sunny fountains

Roll down their golden sand

From many an ancient river,

From many a palmy plain

They call us to deliver

Their lands from error’s chain.

 

 

 

 

 

2. Can we, whose souls are lighted

With wisdom from on high,

Can we to men benighted

The lamp of life deny?

Salvation! O Salvation!

The joyful sound proclaim

Till each remotest nation

Has learnt Messiah’s name

 

 

 

 

 

3. Waft, waft, ye winds, His story,

And you, ye waters, roll,

Till. Like a sea of glory,

It spreads from pole to pole;

Till o’er our ransomed nature

The Lamb for sinners slain,

Redeemer, King Creator,

In bliss returns to reign.