Encouraging Results
The results of the work of the school were encouraging. It successfully competed with other English Girls’ Schools in all Public Examinations. The year 1897 marks the first success of the school in the Junior Cambridge Local Examination; every year since then the school has distinguished itself not only in the Cambridge Local Examinations, Junior and Senior, but also in the E.S.L.C. and the Royal Academy of Music Examinations.
In 1902, one of the students joined the local Medical College. She was awarded the Jeejeebhoy Scholarship, the first woman student to obtain this Scholarship and the first Sinhalese woman to study medicine.
Another milestone in the school's progress came in 1903, when a few students passed the Government Teachers’ Examination and obtained their Licenses, some to teaching in English, and others in Sinhalese Schools. In the preceding year, these students had qualified in Drawing and passed in that subject in the Examination held by the Government Technical College. These students joined the teaching staff of the school and helped in its work for several years till they returned home to be married.
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