Vidyaloka College is a boys' school in
Galle
Galle ( si, ගාල්ල, translit=Gālla; ta, காலி, translit=Kāli) (formerly Point de Galle) is a major city in Sri Lanka, situated on the southwestern tip, from Colombo. Galle is the provincial capital and largest city of Southern ...
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Sri Lanka. The school was established on 14 January 1941 by philanthropist
Henry Woodward Amarasuriya under the patronage of Venerable Weliwitiye Punyasara Thera. It is a national school which accommodates over 3,100+ students and provides primary and secondary education to them.
Re-construction project at Vidyaloka College, Galle
/ref> The school was re-constructed after it was badly affected by the Indian Ocean tsunami
An earthquake and a tsunami, known as the Boxing Day Tsunami and, by the scientific community, the Sumatra–Andaman earthquake, occurred at 07:58:53 local time (UTC+7) on 26 December 2004, with an epicentre off the west coast of northern Suma ...
in 2004.
College Today
The college today provides education to about 3,100+ students from grade 1 to grade 13 and it is regarded as one of the leading boys' schools in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka.
School Boundaries
The land named ‘Kekiri Obada Watta’ where the school is located stretches up to the Wackwella road to the East, Vidyaloka Lane to the North, Sri Devamitta Mawatha to the West and Queens Cinema to the South and it is a flat land of about of 2 acres of extent situated in the heart of Galle city.
Past principals
* 1941 - 1944 : E. A. C. Munasinghe
* 1945 - 1964 : B. D. P. de Silva
* 1964 - 1965 : A. Hendravitharana
* 1965 - 1971 : B. K. de Silva
* 1971 - 1977 : Chandradasa de Silva
* 1977 - 1981 : Christy Nanayakkara
* 1981 - 1995 : D. H. Senevirathna
* 1996 - 2004 : M. B. L. de Silva
* 2004 - 2010 : N. G. Gunapala
* 2010 - 2013 : F. Welege
*2013–present : Prasanna Senewiraththne
College Houses
Students are divided into four houses according to their admission number. These houses are named after four ancient kings of Sri Lanka.
*-Ashoka
*-Gemunu
*-Prakrama
*-Sangabo
Notable alumni
References
External links
Vidyaloka College WebsiteOld Boys Association of Vidyaloka College
{{Education in Sri Lanka
1941 establishments in Ceylon
Boys' schools in Sri Lanka
Educational institutions established in 1941
National schools in Sri Lanka
Schools in Galle