In 1997, the school’s Principal resigned unexpectedly. Unexpectedly, the reigns of the school fell in the hands of the Lanky and Tall Deputy whom we all feared with respect. L.T. Deputy was by then a seasoned campaigner. He had joined school in the late-1970s and grown firm as a part of Kingswood’s own vegetation. L.T’s…
mong knowledge, skills, qualities, attitudes, and many other attributes I would rather say the living pattern of a good man is taught to us by Mother Kingswood: “None for himself, But all for the School”. Never has a gentleman of Kingswood betrayed Mother Kingswood, every gentlemen urges that they are the children of Mother Kingswood….
The challenges I had to overcome being a scout still helps me in overcoming the day to day challenges in life. Skills developed there: basic skills, communication, leadership skills, and managerial skills. What is said and what is not is quiet hard to be achieved by any other single extracurricular activity. I must admit, the…
Iremember the day Kingswood first won the President’s Trophy knockout tournament. You see, though our good friends wear it on their shirts that “Rugby belonged to Randles’ Hill from 1891”, it is not exactly a scientific statement. True — Kingswood, history documents say, first played the game in 1891 (thought the school, at that point, was not…
No matter whether you are a student or a teacher Kingswood demands your heart and soul both. “None for himself, but all for the school.” Is true to its word. If you are not willing to do that, you may study or teach there for any number of years but you’ll walk out of those…
The next year, the school selected Nalaka as one of the Scribes. But this happened the year before, when he was still popular among us, the younger boys. Nalaka was smart and pleasant. He had a smile and carried himself in a gentle and manly way. Like your average Prefect, Nalaka was by no means…
The teacher of Grade 1C, my class, was Mrs. Pearl Guneratne (Jayasooriya), who was also the spouse of the Primary School Head Master, Mr. Guneratne. Mr. Guneratne was a feared creature, who walked around the Primary compound with measured steps, holding a cane behind his back, and his heavily haired arms and imposing head with graying curls…
The tragedy had struck by the time we came to school. A boy lay sprawled on the crossing, the mini-bus that hit him stopped having run over him. The body lay on a side and the head wound was an ugly gash. It couldn’t have been more than five or ten minutes ago. The boy…
You needed that school badge right up there! It was the cherry of what the Prefects advocated as “the Kingswood dress code” (eyeroll): long whites, short-sleeved shirt neatly tucked in. No bands, or pirith strings. No watches except for the thin black-strap digital one. No wallets. No facial hair. Head-hair neatly parted on the side:…
The following excerpts are from the preliminary chapter (“A General Survey – The Beginnings”) of Louis Edmund Blaze’s KFE: The Story of Kingswood Kandy (pp. 6-11), which documents the author’s reflections of Kingswood’s first twenty five years. The school was opened at No. 11, Pavilion Street, Kandy on the 4th May 1891, as a Private School but…
