Particulars of highest winners of Scholarship

Particulars of highest winners of Scholarship

Kavishka's parents .... farmers

Lakshani's father .... site engineer

Sachini's mother .... graduate

Three positions for First Place, 5 positions for Second Place and 3 positions for Third Place have been won at the Scholarship examination this time.

P.V. Lakshani Melani Wijeysingha of Ussapitiya Sumangala Vidyalaya in Aranayaka is placed first

among the three by securing 196 marks. Her father is a site engineer by profession and the mother is a housewife. Lakshani has 2 younger brothers. One brother is studying in the same school as Lakshani in Year 1. The other younger brother is in pre-school. Together with Lakshani, 22 students have passed the scholarship exam at Sumangala Vidyalaya this time. It was said that she attends dancing and karate classes too. But she had not attended scholarship tuition classes. Lakshani who says that she is not immersed in studies so to say and considered doing exercises in newspapers a fun for her and had worked out those exercises in the past.

Another child who was placed first among the three was R.W.M. Kavishka Wanigasekera of K/Makumbura Primary School. His parents are farmers. He has one elder sister and having got through the previous scholarship exam herself, has entered Kegalle St. Joseph's Balika School. Kavishka is a student who has attended only one extra class. He has said that he had taken a liking to always play and also watch cartoons at the same time engaging in educational activities in a balanced manner. "Because I liked to study at this village school I stayed back in the village school. I now have to leave this school and go to another school. But I feel sad to leave this school and the teachers", he had said.

Of the three who was placed first, the other student is Sachini Kavindra of Gampola Gangasiripura Vidyalaya. Her father is a retired Army officer while her mother is employed as a Divineguma Manageress at the Kandy District Secretariat. Though Sachini has attended extra classes in connection with the scholarship exam she has not considered the exam a burden, her mother says. Sachini's mother is a graduate of Management from the University of Sri Jayawardenepura and because she herself was inclined towards education she considered giving priority to the education of her children, she said.