A Talented Member
The Funday Times Club is made up of kids who are talented in many and different ways. Ravin Tillekeratne is one of them. Ravin Tillekeratne a member of the Funday Times Club is a very bright and talented student. He is currently studying at Gateway College. Winning five awards is not an easy job and what is even [...]
“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”
With the aim of helping young learners gain confidence as fluent language users, another series of innovative drama workshops has been organised by the British Council Library for the third consecutive year. The first drama workshop this year was launched the on October as a part of our World Children’s Day celebrations 2012, under the [...]
Kids’ World
What will the world of tomorrow be like? “The future’s very unpredictable”, many people say, But I think the future would be bright if everything went my way! Eco-friendly cars, shrinking buildings and of course, rocket launchers would be found, Plus square robots, tiny robots and robots that look round! Tickets to the movies would [...]
Win! Win! Win! Super books from Vijitha Yapa Bookshop
9 years and below Write not more than 150 words on ‘Enjoying school.’ Viking Ships at Sunrise by Mary Pope Osborne (Magic Tree House Series)When Jack wakes up, he has one thought in his head: ‘Today we’re going to ancient Ireland, back more than a thousand years!’ Jack is excited but he’s also a little nervous. [...]
‘Vidanes’ distributed all over the land
Those days ‘Vidanes’ were appointed even to the villages. ‘Mahabadda’ , the ‘Vidane’ in charge of the cinnamon department and the ‘Vidane’ in charge of the provinces which supplied gems are examples. Vidanes were also appointed to see to the cultivation of betel and to oversee fields. For those posts both Sinhala and Tamil people [...]
