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De La Salle College, Colombo

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Type
  
Roman Catholic School

Established
  
1905

Motto
  
Indivisa Manent (Latin)

Founded
  
1905

Denomination
  
Roman Catholic

Grades
  
1 to 13 Local Syllabus

Phone
  
+94 11 2 522125

Number of students
  
1,250

De La Salle College, Colombo

Founder
  
Rev.Br. Junianus Edward FSC

Rector
  
Rev.Fr. Newman Muthuthambi OMI

Address
  
De La Salle St, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Similar
  
St Benedict's College, Colombo Internatio School, Ananda Viharaya, D S Senanay College, Methodist College

De la salle college colombo


De La Salle College, Colombo is the only school in Sri Lanka dedicated to the Patron Saint of Christian Teachers St. John Baptist de la Salle, founder of the congregation of De La Salle Brothers of the Christian Schools in Latin: "Fratres Scholarum Christianarum"(FSC).

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Houses

It was in the time of Rev.Bro.Director Luke Gregory that introduced House System, to encourage boys to take part in extra curricular activities. There are Four Houses known as Edward, Augustine, Luke & Hermenegild, each named after a De La Salle Brother. This system is used for events such as inter-house sports & athletics.

Edward House

  • Named after the Founder of the school Rev Bro. Junianus Edward, guardian and the presiding genius of the De La Salle School from 1 February 1905 to 15 July 1925. German Br. Junianus Edward was appointed Director of De La Salle Brothers' Mother House in Mutwal, Colombo on 8 July 1904 and was appointed the first Provincial Visitor of the De La Salle Brothers newly erected District of Colombo on 1 September 1919.
  • Colour : Green     

    • Augustine House

  • Named after the First Director of the school Rev.Br. Augustine Paul.
  • Color : Blue     

    • Luke House

  • Named after Rev. Br. Luke Gregory.
  • Color : Red     

    • Hermenegild House

  • Named after Rev.Br. Hermenegold Joseph.
  • Color : Yellow     

    • Battle of the DEs

    Our big inter-school cricket match was against St. Mary’s College - Pettah, Red & Blue Vs Pink & Blue later it was with St. Joseph’s College, Grandpass. Inter staff matches brought about much camaraderie between the teachers of the competing school. Mr.J.M.Pillar, coached our hockey. Bro. Oliver and Claude Wijesinghe handle the cricket teams. Mathew, Shelton Kingsley, Cabral, Godfrey, Andriesz Brothers, Douglas, Justin, the Foul stone Brothers are some of the cricketers we produced.

    The Mazenodian-LaSallian (The Battle of the DEs) was an annual cricket encounter between De Mazenod College, Kandana and De La Salle College, Mutwal in since 1955. It is known as The Battle of the DEs due to the names of the two schools. (Written by Rev.Bro.Edward Norbet for the College Diamond Jubilee Souvenir in 1980)

    References

    De La Salle College, Colombo Wikipedia
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