News in Brief

Annual prize giving

The annual prize giving of Lyceum International School Nugegoda, will be held at the Bandaranaike International Conference Hall, tomorrow at 4.00 p.m.

Prof. G.L. Pieris will be the chief guest on the invitation of Mohan Lal Grero, founder and Managing Director of Lyceum International Schools and Kumari Grero, Principal, Lyceum International School, Nugegoda. Grero said all students who brought national and international reputation to the school in various fields during 2004-2005 will be felicitated.

Urumayaka Ulpath

The 21st step of the Urumayaka Ulpath programme will be telecast on Sunday at 8.30 a.m. on Sirasa TV. This is a discussion between Milinda Moragoda and Chief Incumbent of the Anuradhapura Rathnamalee Chaithyaramaya, Pallegama Hemaratana Thera.

This discussion is based on the art of Sri Lanka's, ancient sculpture and the facts for losing of ancient technology of constructing lakes and dagabas. They will discuss about the development through our historical technology.

Exhibition and Competition postponed

The astronomy and space science exhibition and competition scheduled for October 8 and 9 has been postponed to October 28 to 30. The deadline for receiving applications for the competition has been extended to October 14.

Dr. Chandana Jayaratne, Consultant on Astronomy to the Arthur C. Clarke Institute said this exhibition is organised to celebrate the 60 years of land mark event in global communication - the publication of Sir Arthur C. Clarke's famous concept paper on how to use satellites for communication purposes in 1945 (in Wireless World magazine).

The exhibition, special guest lectures, night sky observation camps using the telescope etc., is open to the public.

School Assessment Day

An appraisal day has been organised today at all schools having classes from Grades 6 to 13. This will give parents and teachers an opportunity to evaluate the teaching process in the schools, the Education Ministry said.

This will also help solve any questions and problems that parents may be having on school based assessment programmes, the Ministry said.

Schools have also been instructed to hold exhibition depicting various creations by students.

DS Ninnada

DS Ninnada Broadcasting Service managed by D. S. Senanayake Vidyalaya Communication Unit will commence today and will continue for three days.

FM 96.1 channel will broadcast programmes in all three languages 24 hours a day.