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The Grade 1 students of the Kindergarten conducted a local “Fair (Pola)” through Microsoft Teams in July, 2021. This ‘Online Fair’ was conducted in order to provide the experience of a salesman and a buyer with related to the Environmental Activities lesson about ‘How our needs are fulfilled’. The objectives of the lesson were to make students understand those who provide our needs, identify about the activities conducted in a marketplace or a local fair, how to share the items with others, how to supply needed items on our own and to gain a wonderful experience by acting as a buyer or a seller. The competencies that the students achieved through the lesson were to appreciate the people who provide our needs, to gain knowledge about the activities of a marketplace or a local fair, to understand the necessity of growing food items in the home garden and many more. Dressing up as sellers The students were dressed in colourful local garments as sellers and buyers for this event. Some students even sported mustaches and beards. Getting ready with necessary items The little sellers had got ready enthusiastically for the online fair by collecting a variety of food items, some with items which are needed in our day-to-day life, with scales to measure, a price list, real money and printed money and even with a name for their shop. Happy as a seller or a buyer The students were paired during the session and each student was allowed to act as a seller and a buyer. All the students took part in this event happily and joyfully. Learning through experience The students gained knowledge of concepts like value and quantity during this activity. It also allowed the students to broaden their views of a marketplace and to gain experiences about different items that are needed for our day-to-day life.
In the early 1980s, at a time when the Dulux “Do You Know” contest was being introduced and held in the country, Trinity was in a winning spree by winning the Competition twice in a row. Thus Spell Master competitions were becoming very popular among school children and we were especially motivated to start our version and marked the beginning of the Kindergarten Spell Master Competition. Grade 2 students are given a spelling list to study during the August vacation and once they return to school in the 3rd term, the best five students from each class is selected to take part in this event. At the initial round competitors are given two simple words with three letters each, to be spelt correctly, to pass on to the next round. At the next round the number of letters per word is increased and difficult words are added. This goes on until a winner is selected. The best five students are given certificates and prizes at the Kindergarten Assembly, usually by the Headmaster of the Junior School, and the winner will become the Spell Master of the Year. This years competition was held on 27th September at the Junior School Hall. Five competent students from each of the grade 2 classes were selected by their class teachers, and a total of 25 students competed. The winners are as follows: 1st place – Laknil Wijesuriya 2nd place – Inodh Koralegedara 3rd place – Mindula Abeywansha 4th place – Senuka Abeysinghe 5th place – Opayanga Kulathunga
