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Royal College Panadura

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Royal College Panadura
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TypeNational school
MottoAththanan Damayanthi Panditha
Established1978
PrincipalMr.H.Sarathchandra Silva
GenderBoys
Former pupilsOld Royalists
Royal College Panadura

Royal College Panadura [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] (Sinhala: රාජකීය විද්‍යාලය, පාණදුර) is a National school situated in the suburb of Panadura in Western Province, Sri Lanka.

Name of College[edit]

Sri Lankan local news papers also refer Royal College Panadura as Panadura Royal College[10], Panadura Royal[11][12] or Royal Panadura [13][14][15]. Current students of Royal College Panadura are called Panadura Royalists.[16][17][18][19]

Royal College Panadura History and School facilities[edit]

The school was inaugurated in 1978 as Janadipathy Vidyalaya and later renamed as Royal College Panadura. The college conducts classes from grade 1 to 13 in both Sinhala and Tamil medium including English medium from grade six onwards. Royal College Panadura is spreaded across over 34 acres (140,000 m2) consisting of a complete Information Technology Centre,facilities of over 10 scientific labs, auditoriums, Sports Complex boasting of squash courts, basketball courts and table tennis, an international standard rugby football ground and a modern gymnasium, 2 cricket grounds and nets, swimming pool with diving facilities, along with volleyball and tennis courts.[20]

Sports at Royal College Panadura[edit]

Traditional Fixtures of Royal College Panadura[edit]

Royal College Panadura plays annual cricket Big Match with St. John's College Panadura (Royal Panadura versus St. John's Panadura). It is also called Battle of the Greens.[21]. The Big Match is played for Mervyn Joseph Cooray Shield.

Notable alumni of Royal College Panadura[edit]

  • Chamara Silva - Sri Lankan Test and One Day International cricketer[22]
  • Lahiru Fernando - Sri Lanka’s life-saving sportsman and athlete[23]
  • Diluka M. Silva - Attorney-at-law[24]

Alumni associations of Royal College Panadura[edit]

Royal College Panadura has two main alumni associations. These alumni associations plany annual cricket matches against other alumni associations such as the Old Wesleyites Sports Club and the Old Johnians Old Boys Association.[25][26]

Royal College Panadura and other schools[edit]

There are many other schools such as Royal College, Polonnaruwa, Royal College, Horana, Royal College Thelijjawila, Royal College Colombo in Sri Lanka that have Royal in it's title,[27][28][29][30][31] [32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45] none of those are affiliated to Royal College Panadura.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. Sri Lanka profiles CHAMARA SILVA
  2. Royal Panadura has produced many distinguished personalities
  3. They are right Royal too Around the Schools - Royal College Panadura
  4. St John's and Panadura Royal clash on March 15 and 16
  5. St. John's vs Royal Panadura clash will be interesting
  6. Panadura Royal – a talented side
  7. Panadura Royal - under 17 cricket champions
  8. Royal College – Panadura
  9. Dushan an all rounder in the making
  10. Chamara Silva followed Aravinda’s style to forge ahead
  11. Here's how the winners were picked this year...
  12. Keen tussle expected at Schools Rugby Sevens
  13. Royal-Panadura into final beating Mahanama
  14. Royal Panadura impresses in drawn game
  15. Royal, Panadura and Sri Sumangala Balika annex hockey titles
  16. Rambukwella takes over the limelight
  17. Last coupon from May 19
  18. Show to beat all shows on Monday
  19. Royalist Ramith Rambukwella, Observer-Mobitel Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year 2011
  20. Royal Panadura has produced many distinguished personalities
  21. Panadura’s Battle of the Greens ends in tame draw
  22. Chamara Silva followed Aravinda’s style to forge ahead
  23. Live-savers rescue hosts’ pride with three golds
  24. New Computer Lab for Royal College
  25. Sports Club of the old boys of Wesley College - Colombo
  26. Six-a-side at Panadura today
  27. Royal Horana needs funds to play cricket
  28. Spellmaster moves to Uva and Sabaragammuwa Provinces
  29. Royal and S. Thomas’ opt out of school cricket tournament
  30. Ananda’s gymnasts steal the limelight on the second day
  31. Show to beat all shows on Monday
  32. Stage set to honour school cricket talents tomorrow
  33. Schools netball finals in Polonnaruwa
  34. Western Province athletes dominate on the first day
  35. Sri Lanka Sports News
  36. Lalith Athulathmudali clinch U-16 'Milo' Rugby Trophy
  37. Under 17 hockey tourney from September 24 to 27
  38. Outstation Schools dominate All-Island School Games
  39. Telijjavila Royal College, Matara
  40. JRJ's 102nd birth anniversary on Sept. 17
  41. Royal Class of '80 fetes past teachers
  42. Students get great help from e-Sri Lanka: Royal College Principal
  43. Studies cum extra- curricular activities - the secret
  44. Royal College student fallen to the swimming pool
  45. A social and religious personality

si:රාජකීය විද්‍යාලය, පාණදුර