Lumbini Royal: Ready to face the changing world
Lumbini Royal College is a provincial mixed school which belongs to the Gangawata Educational Zone in Kandy. It is striding with the vision to “become a unique and a productive school respecting the aims and objectives of the National Education Policy within next five years”
In 1943, this school was inaugurated as Bowala Vidyalaya with only one building. At first, only the surrounding villagers admitted students to this school. When they reached the 70’s, the school had taken massive strides for its development. Dedicated members of the staff strived hard to reach this target.
Today the college is known as Lumbini Royal College, and it is able to compete with other leading schools in both their educational as well as extra-curricular activities. Since the 70’s, the College administrators have endeavoured to provide their students the best of facilities. Today Lumbini Royal as a 1C school has spacious class-rooms, well equipped laboratories and sports facilities and conduct classes from Grade One to Thirteen.
Mr. W.M. Gunathilake (2005-to the present), serves as the principal. He dedicated himself to the development and the achievements of the college during his eight years of service in this journey as the leader. His l eadership has brought many successes to mother Lumbini Royal.
Students sharpen their potentials by participating in both academic and various extracurricular activities without limits. The past few years has seen a continuous and sustained growth of performance of the students in academic as well as extra- curricular arenas. Annual achievements and successes of Lumbini Royal have always been among the top in the Zone. The achievement in the Grade 5 scholar- ship has increased since 2005. Excellent achievements at GCE (O/L) examination every year have placed Lumbini Royal in a good position and it has increased since 2008 from 42%. Today they enjoy 70% success. Annually a reasonable amount of students enter state universities through the highly competit ive GCE ( A/ L) examination. Extra and co-curricular activities play a major role in Lumbini Royal. They were able to secure the first or second places at the All Island dancing competitions in the “Below 1000 Students” category since 2009. Both girls and boy have participated in the above competitions and the Solo and Group category groups as well securing first and second places in Sabaragamuwa and Kandyan dancing contests.
Lumbini Royalists have also shown their colours in sports and language day competitions. They have been taking part with the leading schools in the island at All Island Athletic meets.
Co- Curricular activities also have brought fame to mother Lumbini Royal. Six students have been selected for all island new inventors’ competition. In order to improve the oratory skills and general knowledge of students, they have formed several societies and clubs. Annually plenty of happenings such as Bakthi Geetha, Commerce Day, Language Day, society meetings and primary school activities have been organised to bring out their hidden talents.
Being a 1C school, Lumbini Royal has made huge efforts to provide a friendly environment for the mental development of the students. The well maintained school environment brought them second place in the Best Environment Friendly School Competition -2012. They were also able to win the British Council International School Award 2012-2015.
The principal as the leader of the school has displayed his leadership and administrate skills to guide the school in their victory path. It is important to mention about the great dedication that the staff of Lumbini Royal College, has shown in its history to uphold its excellent education among every batch of students.
With the mission of “groom and bestow a generation of highly talented and competent students in order to uphold good values and attitudes, able to look up to others with great respect and dignity, make claims to a solid knowledge base and skills, with a great inclination towards self-confidence and have disseminating and pleasant thoughts in the healthy environment in the city of Senkadagala.” Lumbini Royal is ready to face the changes of this fast- changing world.