Newstead Walk 2013
View(s):Newstead Girls’ College Negombo readies to celebrate 200 years in 2016
Newstead Girls’ College Negombo, which is 196 years old, is gearing to celebrate 200 years of existence in Sri Lanka in 2016. The ‘Newstead Walk 2013’ is the initial project that the Past Pupils Association is organising to raise funds to refurbish the existing hostel building in the school and also to construct a new building to accommodate more classrooms.
The walk will be held on January 12 and a meeting will also be held by the Past Pupils Association to inform all past pupils about the walk at 8:30 at the Main Hall of Newstead Girls’ College Negombo. The walk will wrap up with a musical show at 6 p.m. on January 12.
From 1815-1962, a period of 147 years, the school was run by the Wesleyan Methodist missionary society. The school from its humble beginnings as a vernacular boys’ school was transformed into a Wesleyan girls’ English high school at the turn of the century; and became a leading senior secondary school bearing the name Newstead after one of the founders of the school, Rev. Robert Newstead.
Much was accomplished during this era because of the dedicated services of the missionaries, missionary principals and devoted staff. Newstead, eventually established a place in mainstream education in Sri Lanka as a national school – the first of its kind in the Gampaha District.
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