Cricketer Geethal Fernando, Sportsman of the Year
Geethal Fernando, the Benedictine paceman, who knocked the delights out of the Josephian batting line up, taking seven wickets in each innings, sending the Joes reeling to an innings defeat in 2016, won the prestigious Sportsman of the Year award at the Benedictine Colours Night 2016, held at the Defense Services Auditorium recently. At the [...]
Victorian sports stars honoured
Badminton prodigy Dilmi Dias won the highest accolade when the Convent of Our Lady of Victories in Moratuwa held its annual Colours Award Ceremony at the School Hall. Dilmi, an outstanding badminton player, who has represented the country many times and at present the Under-17 Singles champion and Doubles runner-up at the Junior National Championship, [...]
Golden Star for Pushpadana
The Under-14 hockey team of Pushpadana Girls School Kandy excelled to bag the ‘Golden Star’ award at the 17th Sri Lanka Schools Hockey Carnival 2017 for Boys and Girls Under-14 which was concluded at Asgiriya stadium in Kandy. The junior hockey carnival conducted by the Sri Lanka Schools Hockey Association together with Kandy Schools Hockey [...]
Eshan Pieris does it again
Eshan Pieris once again did Sri Lanka proud wining the X30 Senior Class in the Macau International Kart Grand Prix 2017 held last weekend in China. This is one of Asia’s most prestigious karting races. Taking on top drivers from Australia, Philippines, China, Singapore and the rest of Southeast Asia, he took the chequered flag [...]
Mihith, a promising paddler
Young Mahith Kausilu Jayasumana, a 12-year-old from Gampaha and a student of Lyceum International School Gampaha, is an outstanding table tennis player with a bright future. He was among the top school table tennis players and was ranked No.1 in the Under-15 age category in Western Province in 2017. Mahith won the Boy’s Under-15 championship [...]
St. Peter’s conduct Tennis camp for its juniors
St. Peter’s College, Colombo successfully conducted a tennis camp for the school’s Grade 1 and 2 players at its Tennis Courts, with the prime intention of improving the talent of junior tennis players. Eyeing the tennis tournaments scheduled for 2018, St. Peter’s have made this bold decision to groom their young competitors well in advance. [...]
Graduation at Kotelawala Defence University
The 27th convocation of the General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University was held this week with President Maithripala Sirisena as the chief guest at the final session of the convocation. One thousand and sixty three (1,063) students from nine different faculties graduated at this year’s convocation. One PhD degree, 93 master’s degrees and 963 post [...]
Education ministry to hold anti-drugs drive
The education ministry is set to launch a major programme to prevent school children using narcotics and alcohol within school premises from next month, Education Minister Akila Viraj Kariyawasam said. The programme is aimed at discouraging school children from using narcotics, cigarettes and alcohol in the school premises and strengthening their capacity to turndown harmful [...]
Schools bar weak students to show high success rates
The Ceylon Teachers Union (CTU) charged that this year several students have been prevented from sitting the GCE O Level exams because of their inability to excel in the subjects taught in class rooms. General Secretary, Joseph Stalin said that schools are preventing weak children from sitting exams in order to show good success rates. [...]
Funds for libraries delayed
The government had last week summoned around 2,000 school principals to Temple Trees to allocate money to school libraries but failed to hand over the funds. It is learned that the principals who gathered from across the country went back empty handed and were told that the money would be credited to the School Development [...]
Nimsara wins water rocket competition
A grade nine student of Christ Church Boys’ College Baddegama won a gold medal at the water rocket competition held by the Asia Pacific Regional Space Agency Forum in Bangalore last month. He emerged as the winner from 54 competitors from 13 countries. He first invented a water rocket for a school competition and then [...]
5,000 trees planted as UN celebrates Volunteers Day
The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) in Sri Lanka celebrated International Volunteer Day 2017 under the theme “Volunteers Act First. Here. Everywhere,” recently. The main event took place on November 25 with a tree planting initiative, which saw nearly 5,000 trees planted in ten tanks. Together with UNDP, UNV and the Government with the support of [...]
Ceremony to enrol girl guides
Eighteen students of Dethawa Junior School in the Katugampola, Giriulla education zone were enrolled as girl guides at a recent ceremony. The event took place with the principal H.A.S. Abeyratne and the teacher in charge of girl guides Malani Ranaweera presiding over the event. Pic by Roziro Karunaratna.
New library for Sabaragamuwa Uni.
The government approved the construction of a library complex for the Sabaragamuwa University, Cabinet Media Spokesman Gayantha Karunathilake said. He said the contract to build the first stage of the university library was handed over to CML – MTD Construction. The construction is expected to cost Rs. 315 million. The Cabinet proposal was made by [...]
Spectrum College ties up with Maldivian embassy
An international school this week signed an MOU with the Maldivian embassy to strengthen the relationship between Sri Lanka and the Maldives in terms of education. The school, Spectrum College – a chain of international schools providing international qualifications while preserving Asian values includes Sri Lankan, Indian, Maldivian and Pakistani nationals. The college among its [...]