University of Kelaniya

                                              
                             Motto  -  Pannaya Parisujjhati [self purification is by insight]
 
               Chancellor - Ven.Welamitiyawe Dharmakirthi Sri Kusala Dhamma Thero.

                  Vice Chancellor  -  Prof.Semasinghe Dissanayake

                     Administrative staff  -  771 adcademic 637 non academic


                                   

                                           Vidyalankara Privena has been founded in 1875 by Ratmalane Sri Dharmaloka Thero as a centre of learning for Buddhist monks.It became Vidyalankara University in 1959. First Vice chancellor was ven.Kiriwaththuduwe Sri Pragnasara Nayaka Thero.In 1978 it was renamed as University of Kelaniya. The first female student was taken in 1966.
                                         

                     

                          University of kelaniya has many facilities for students.There is a main library which includes thousands of books and also there are 9 canteens.Food is cheaper than the outside.Girls' hostels and boys' hostels are also provided for students to stay while they are studying.2 Grounds and a gymnasium are there for sports activities. 

                                           

                              This state university is located in Dalugama, Kelaniya.Today it consists of 7 faculties and 50 departments.

                   The faculties are,

• Humanities
• Social sciences
• Science  -  8 departments 
• Medicine
• Commerce and Management studies
• Graduate studies 
• Computing and Technology

                                             

 
       The faculty of medicine is situated in Ragama.The main hall of the university is Dharmaloka hall and also the whole university has a free WiFi network.University provides free medical treatments for students and for staff members.There are bookshops inside the university.University of kelaniya is the first ever green university in Sri Lanka.
       The official website is www.kln.ac.lk

                                         

What We Learnt From PPD

Things that we gained

PPD means personal progress development. Simply it’s like a leadership training. This session gave us lot of self confidence and lessons about how to make our decisions, how to work as a team and how to understand each other etc..

We did lots of activities during this semester with miss Sarasi. She gave us lot of confidence to do those activities. I think she is the person who behind our every successful activity.

These are some of our unforgettable activities,

This was our first activity and it is so fun. We were grouped by our lecturer and she told us to go and gather information about outside of the university as a team. This was so helpful for us to get to know each other. After that we did a presentation about what we saw and what we gained during that activity.

While we doing all these things we got lots of experience for our life. Lots of us came this university without any leadership experience. But attending something like PPD session, it helped us to improve our soft skills like how to work as a team, how to care each other, how to communicate with them etc..

 After all these things, we learnt;

·        Importance of a leadership

·        How to work as a team

·        How to lead a team

·        How to communicate with each other

·        How to manage our time

·        Think differently

·        Make eye contact

·        How to do a presentation

·        Make independent decisions

·        Respect each other.

Paper Magic

Paper tower

paper tower is a group activity. It is a tower which is made by papers. When we make that tower we have to focus on two things. Those are

·        Height of tower

·        Stability of tower

So when we make that tower we have to think a lot because this is a game and there is a competition between each team. There are some rules for this game,

•   Must use all the papers.
•   Can only use papers , scissors and  gum tapes.
•   Must make the tower within 45 minutes.
•   Paper tower must be kept on the ground outside of the classroom.
•   Team which makes the highest and most stable paper tower will wins.

Group Work

We were divided into 3 groups. Each team had 8 members. In our group every member had a specific role to play in this game. Before build the tower we made a plan about how we do this. Like all the other teams we also focused on a strong base because stability is necessary. But we have to build a strong base by using few papers. Because we only got 12 papers.

Firstly we made a strong base. We have to speak in English because it is also a lesson for us to learn how to communicate with others in English.

After building a strong base, we focused on middle of the tower.

Then we built the higher part of the tower and completed it.

Things That We Learned

Ø  How to help each others in a team work.

Ø  How to face the problems and find solutions for them.

Ø  How to lead a team.

Ø  How to communicate with others.

Ø  How to design a project.

Ø  How to divide project into pieces and how to combined them all.

PPD

PPD means Personal Progress and Development. It is a life long process. It helps people to develop their skills and qualities.And also personal progress development skills helps people to get on the right track.
As human beings we have to face lot of challenges in our day to day life. So we must have a good personality to face those problems. PPD (Personal Progress and Development) is a great way to overcome them.

There are lot of benefits in PPD,

• It helps us to understand people in our society.
• Teaches us to cope with pressure of our challenges.
• Develops our communication skills.
• Give us a leadership training.
• How to balance our day to day life.
• Creates a visible personal profile among others.