Despite drawbacks rural school wins NWP dancing and music competition

W.A.T.S. Wijesinghe Pothuwatawana group correspondent

Despite several drawbacks in the Kirimetiyana Dharmarama Vidyalaya rural village school it was able to obtain victories in dancing and music defeating all other vidyalayas in the North Western Province said the Principal Sunil Jayasinghe.

He was addressing the School Development Society meeting held at the vidyalaya main hall.

He said it was a great fame to the school, that the two teams dancing and music will participate to the all island competition held at Matara on January 10, 2009.

The Principal said that there are no room facilities to conduct dancing and music classes and no security measures in the school to keep dancing and music instruments and despite that the vidyalaya children were able to obtain three first places in N.W.P.

The Principal said that there wasn't a separate room in the school for an office, therefore a classroom is used as an office without any security.

He informed the parents that there is no proper playground for the school and which is having is a heap of gravel and children everyday get injured by falling on gravel. Due to this reason the vidyalaya was unable to hold an annual sports meets for a number of years.

Over one thousand parents participated at the meeting and a teacher of the vidyalaya said today most of the children are addicted to the Rupavahini channels which are not suitable for children even for adults also it had made children using mobile phones as a fashion.