We were delighted to be informed of the appointment of Sumangalian, former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Moratuwa, Prof. Kapila Perera as the new Secretary to the Ministry of Education by His Excellency the President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.

It gives us great pleasure to extend our heartiest congratulations and sincere best wishes. We are confident that your able leadership and guidance will be invaluable in steering the Sri Lankan education system to attain its goals.

Old Sumangalian Mr. Roshan Perera, Managing Director of Crystal Consumer Pvt Ltd, donated 500 face masks to the college. This high-quality 3PLY (Including filter PLY) face masks are manufactured at his factory in Panadura.

Face masks were handed over the Principal Lt. Colonel L. G. P. B. Liyangaskumbura on June 30, 2020, at the college. The President of the SSCOBA Mr. Mahesh Fonseka and Joint Secretaries Mr. Dinesh Ketipearachchi and Mr. Amila Nawalage have also attended the donation ceremony.

Mr. Roshan Perera who played cricket for the college is a Vice President of the Past Cricketers’ Association of Sri Sumangala College.

Thank you Mr. Roshan Perera for your generosity and loyalty to our alma mater. We wish you all the success!

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98th Annual General Meeting of SSCOBA has been postponed considering the pandemic conditions due to the COVID-19 outbreak. The new date of the AGM will be informed to all the members at the earliest, once the authorities switch on the green light to hold such an event. We have emailed all our members the progress report of the administrative year 2019/2020 and the audited financial statement of SSCOBA as of 31.12.2019.

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දැනට රටතුල පවතින නීතිමය තත්වය හමුවේ අප සංගමයේ 98වන වාර්ෂික මහා සභාව පැවැත්වීමට නොහැකි බව පසුගිය කාරක සභා රැස්වීමේදී තීරණය කල අතර, වාර්ෂික මහා සභාව පවත්වන දිනය පසුව දැනුම් දෙන තුරු 2019/2020 වසර තුල ආදී ශිෂ්‍ය සංගමය සිදු කල සේවාවන් හා 31.12.2019 දිනට විගණනය කල ගිණුම් වාර්තා සාමාජිකයන්හට විද්‍යුත් තැපෑල මඟින් යොමුකර ඇති බව මෙයින් දන්වා සිටිමු.

SSCOBA held its monthly Exco meeting yesterday, June 13, 2020, at the College Auditorium after the country’s lockdown period. The meeting was headed by our President Mr. Mahesh Fonseka.

This is the first meeting that our Patron, the new Principal of the College, Lt. Col. L. G. P. B. Liyangaskubura attended and he briefed the Exco about his findings, plans about the College and how he wants the OBA to play the major role in preparing and implementing the plan.

The meeting was attended by our Advisors, Past President Mr. Vijith Salgado, Past Joint Secretary Mr. Sarath Alwis, and Exco members.

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We implemented Virtual Class Rooms at our college and now it’s been successfully used by the college teachers & students for their education. We are so proud to contribute to implementing the same at Royal College Panadura.

We would like to thank Mr. Diluka Silva for coordinating this and getting us involved in this and our Principal Lt. Col. L. G. P. B. Liyangaskubura and Mr. Y. Yasarathne, Principal of Royal College Panadura for initiating this. We hope that this will take the friendship between two colleges to a new level.

Finally, we thank and appreciate the Old Boys’ Association of Royal College Panadura for recognizing our contribution.

ශ්‍රී සුමංගල විද්‍යාලයීය ආදී ශිෂ්‍ය සංගමයේ දායකත්වය තුලින් අප පාසැලේ ආරම්භ කර සාර්ථක ලෙස පවත්වාගෙන යන Virtual Class Rooms ක්‍රමය පානදුර රාජකීය විද්‍යාලයේ ආරම්භ කිරීමට අපගේ දායකත්වයන් ලබා දීමට හැකි වීම පිළිබඳව අප ඉතා සතුටු වෙමු.

මේ සඳහා අපගේ දායකත්වය ලබාගැනීමට සම්බන්ධීකරණය කල දිලූක සිල්වා මහතාටත්, අප පාසැලේ විදුහල්පති ලුතිනන් කර්නල් L. G. P. B. ලියන්ගස්කුඹුර මහතාටත්, පානදුර රාජකීය විද්‍යාලයේ විදුහල්පති Y. යසරත්න මහතාටත් ස්තූති වන්ත වන අතර පාසැල් දෙකෙහි සුහදත්වය වර්ධනය කර ගැනීම අප ආදී ශිෂ්‍ය සංගම් දෙකෙහිම අරමුණයි.

අපගේ දායකත්වය ඇගයූ පානදුර රාජකීය විද්‍යාලයේ ආදී ශිෂ්‍ය සංගමයටද අපගේ ප්‍රණාමය පුදකර සිටිමු.

පානදුර රාජකීය විද්‍යාලයේ ආදී ශිෂ්‍ය සංගමයේ Facebook සටහන / Facebook Post of the Old Boys’ Association of Royal College: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1165467427152674&set=a.113816112317816

Here is the video of our President Mr. Mahesh Fonseka addressing the media after the media conference held at the college regarding Virtual Class Rooms on June 02, 2020.

The Official Inauguration of Virtual Class Rooms at our Alma Mater held this morning. The ceremony was attended by the Principal, Lt. Col. L. G. P. B. Liyangaskumbura, Mr. Nalaka De Silva – Assistant Principal, Mrs. Nishanthi Karunathne – College ICT Teacher, Dr. M. A. Jagath Wansapala – Secretary of the School Development Society, Mr. Mahesh Fonseka – President of the Old Boys’ Association, Mr. Dinesh Ketipearachchi & Mr. Amila Nawalage – Join Secretaries of the Old Boys’ Association, Mr. Wasantha Weerakoone – Chief Operating Officer – Tech One Global (Pvt) Ltd, Mr. Manjula Wimaladasa – General Manager – Sanje (Pvt) Ltd, Mr. Angelo Fernando – Head of Sales – Sanje (Pvt) Ltd, Old Sumangalian Mr. Nirodha Gunawardena – Senior Consultant – Public Sector – Sanje (Pvt) Ltd, Vice Presidents of Old Boys’ Association Mr. Sampath Perera and Mr. Chamath Dias, and few more teachers, students, and media representatives.

This is the first step of the digital transformation projects taking place at the college carried out by the ICT & Digital subcommittee of SSCOBA headed by Vice Presidents Mr. Chamara Peiris and Mr. Sampath Perera. Once the Virtual Class Rooms are implemented for all grades in the college, SSCOBA will start on the School Management System, which will empower students, teachers, college administration as well as parents.

Photo courtesy of the Photographic Society of the College.

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සියලුම ආදී ශිෂ්‍ය මාධ්‍යවේදීන්ට හා මාධ්‍ය ක්ෂේත්‍රයට සම්බන්ධ වෘත්තිකයන්ට කෙරෙන ආරාධනයයි!

ශ්‍රී සුමංගල විද්‍යාලයීය ආදී ශිෂ්‍ය සංගමය මගින් පිහිටුවන “ආදී ශිෂ්‍ය මාධ්‍ය කවය” සඳහා අප ආදී ශිෂ්‍ය වෘත්තීය මාධ්‍යවේදීන්ගේ හා මාධ්‍ය ක්ෂේත්‍රයට සම්බන්ධ වෘත්තිකයන්ගේ තොරතුරු එක්රැස් කර ඔවුන්ගේ වෘත්තීය දැනුම සහ පළපුරුද්ද පාසලේ හා ආදී ශිෂ්‍ය සංගමයේ වැඩකටයුතු සඳහා සම්බන්ධ කරගැනීමට ආදී ශිෂ්‍ය සංගමය තීරණය කරන ලදී.

මේ සඳහා ඔබගේ නම, ලිපිනය, වෘත්තීය හා ආයතනය, ජංගම දුරකථන අංකය, WhatsApp අංකය සහ විද්‍යුත් තැපෑල යන තොරතුරු 076 274 5213 හෝ 077 731 6183 යන දුරකථන අංක වලට හෝ [email protected] යන විද්‍යුත් තැපෑලට අදම යොමු කරන්න.

Having successfully conducted the 1st term tests for grades 6 to 11 using the college and OBA websites and providing answers through WhatsApp Groups created for each grade, SSCOBA is taking a further step to empower the college education with Virtual Class Rooms using Microsoft Office 365 Education and Microsoft Teams applications.

At the initial stage, grades 10, 11, 12 & 13 will be onboarded to Virtual Class Rooms and other grades will be onboarded in stages in the due course. With Microsoft Office 365 Education and Microsoft Teams, all college students and teachers will get an email address under the college domain name and that can be used until they leave the college. For an example, [email protected] will be the email address. Also, each student & teacher will be given free online Office 365 access too.

With this technology implementation, our Alm Mater will be one of the very few colleges in the Island to conduct fully equipped Virtual Class Rooms.

We would like to thank Old Sumangalian Mr. Nirodha Goonawardena, Senior Consultant at Sanje (Private) Limited for providing us these tools absolutely free from Microsoft.

This is the first step of the digital transformation project taking place at the college carried out by the ICT & Digital subcommittee of SSCOBA. Once the Virtual Class Rooms are implemented for all grades in the college, SSCOBA will start on the School Management System, which will empower students, teachers, college administration as well as parents.

If you are a student or a teacher of grades 10 to 13, please register for Virtual Class Rooms by using the below links.

Grade 10
https://forms.gle/i2B8uf3DnsiXpx8p6

Grade 11
https://forms.gle/y7GFYQwGWxWoxUun9

Grade 12 Science 
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd8xGKqC3elZs-tb5JaumjtuTjrmjT1gJPccmBz1Q8OjuVBWA/viewform

Grade 12 Commerce 
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfp4fTVjWputIi47-kDoPtWjvSlEb_dtM9OUiblrFpVvhmG9w/viewform

Grade 13 Science
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfdW2GyW9GpDFCZtm3Gc6iyEvWMsUW7SLY-cQ4GzAlf9EFs0g/viewform

Grade 12 Commerce
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScn-jJSMN3M2QiIP01nhDORXDLYXbTBI-aRUjIy3wPcvjboCA/viewform

Grade 12 & 13 Arts
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScfti-wRUlQOTpXgWQ6YsdtkhVqqCJfoiADa2waCcYEbTEXeQ/viewform

If you are facing any problem with the above forms please contact below contact points for support.

Nalaka De Silva – Assistant Principal (0718015076)
Gayan Srinath – Grade 10, 11 Section Head (0714448529)
Samantha Liyanagamage – Grade 10 Head (0714445364)
Ms. Nilangani – Grade 11 Head (0782800592)
Ms. Nishanthi Karunarathne – Grade 12, 13 ICT Teacher (0714967676)

If you need any clarifications regarding this project please contact the ICT & Digital subcommittee of SSCOBA using below contacts.

Sampath Perera – Vice President (077 783 6296)
Chamara Peiris – Vice President (0712 967 967)

It is with profound sadness we announce the demise of distinguished old boy Dr. Mahinda P. Malalasekera on 24th April 2020 after a brief illness.

Dr. Malalasekera is a great Sumangalian who put his heart and soul to serve our Alma Mater and SSCOBA. He was a live wire at SSCOBA, being a much sought after Vice President and a dynamic Joint Secretary. At the time of his departure, he was a Patron of SSCOBA. His benevolence towards the college would run into volumes, since brevity is the soul of wit, let us be brief.

Dr. Malalasekera was a devoted social worker who held the posts of President of Archaeological Society, and President of Justice of Peace Association in the district of Kalutara. Despite of Dr. Malalasekare’s busy schedule, he committed his precious time for the benefit of many prestigious societies such as the All Ceylon Buddhist Congress, Sri Lanka Eye Donation Society, and Sri Lankan Scouts Association. He was the Manager of Kalutara Boddhi Trust Fund too.

He is a person who won the love of everyone. Though he departed from us his legacy will remain forever. No doubt that his departure will create an unfathomable void, not only at the SSCOBA but in the society at large.

May he attain the supreme bliss of nirvana!