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The Brotherhood Derby: A game with an ecstatic beginning, intense physicality, missed chances and a victory for the boys from Randles.
The Brotherhood Derby: A game with an ecstatic beginning, intense physicality, missed chances and a victory...
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The Deputy and the Skinhead
In 1997, the school’s Principal resigned unexpectedly. Unexpectedly, the reigns of the school fell in...
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I Lived the Magic Mantra: “None for Himself, All for the School”
mong knowledge, skills, qualities, attitudes, and many other attributes I would rather say the living...
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KCK: The Best Years of My Life
The challenges I had to overcome being a scout still helps me in overcoming the day to day challenges...
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Kingswood’s President’s Trophy Win
Iremember the day Kingswood first won the President’s Trophy knockout tournament. You see, though our...
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Kingswood Demands Your Heart and Soul
No matter whether you are a student or a teacher Kingswood demands your heart and soul both. “None for...
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An Inspirational Prefect
The next year, the school selected Nalaka as one of the Scribes. But this happened the year before, when...
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Some Primary Memories
The teacher of Grade 1C, my class, was Mrs. Pearl Guneratne (Jayasooriya), who was also the spouse of...
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The Principal’s Principle
The tragedy had struck by the time we came to school. A boy lay sprawled on the crossing, the mini-bus...
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The Badge of Honour
You needed that school badge right up there! It was the cherry of what the Prefects advocated as “the...
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The Beginnings
The following excerpts are from the preliminary chapter (“A General Survey – The Beginnings”) of Louis...
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Brownrigg Street Days
The following excerpts are from the preliminary chapter (“A General Survey – The Spencer Period”) of...
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Kingswood: Opening of the Kindergarten and the Shift to Peradeniya Road.
The following excerpts are from the preliminary chapter (“A General Survey – Peradeniya”) of Louis Edmund...
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The D-factor: Kingswood Discipline.
To be frank, I’m benefiting the real outcome of those experiences only now, as I go further and further...
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A Religion that Taught Me Life
I can  remember during one of the rehearsals of a prize giving ceremony, our Principal instructed all...
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The Kingswood Skipper Who Declared the Innings with Two Overs to Stumps
This is a Big Match story: a giant leap by a small made man. We don’t know what part of it is legend,...
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Short Notes on Four Principals
Principals come in all shapes and sizes, and this is no exception for Kingswood, too. From the earliest...
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Sad Times, Difficult Times: Kingswood Changing Beyond What We Knew.
The traditional prizes and awards that were awarded from the earliest years such as the Crowther, Luterz,...
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Kingswood Trumping the Herman-Loos
The following is reproduced from a very passionately written detailed account of the Herman Loos championship...
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With Backs to the Wall: Big Match 1959.
In the 3rd inning of the 1959 Big Match Clifford Rathnavibhushana scored an inspirational 167 which –...