Our vision is to maintain the spirit of Kingswood among us, throughout our lives, so that our members will never fail in their lives wherever they go, whatever they do. The word “ Kingswood ” is not just a word, knowledge we gained, goals we achieved, strength we gathered, kindness we shared, responsibilities we fulfilled, everything we have done to this nation is because the spirit of Kingswood.
Kingswood College was established on the 4th in May 1891 named “Boys High School”. It was situated in the Pavilion street in the city in Kandy. There were only eleven students at that time. Then it was move to Brownvidge Street.
The founder principal of the School was late Mr. L. E. BLAZE.The School was managed by the Methodist council Mission. In 1922 four Houses ETON, HARROW, WINCHESTER, RUGBY were introduced to the school.The students were called as the “Gentlemen of Kingswood” Kingswood was the pioneer to introduced the under mentioned features to the other schools in this island.
•Introducing rugby football to Sri Lankan schools.
•The First school to employ lady teachers in the staff.
•Kingswood is one of the five schools to establish a cadet platoon.
•Introducing in the school Traffic controlling out side the school gate.
Kingswood OBA Australia & Kingswood Touch Rugby 7s
Kingswood OBA Australia was formed back in 2007, and the main objective of our association is to refresh and foster the friendship we between our school days, to meet our fellow gentlemen and also to help Kingswood College, Kandy through the provision of additional funding and assistance towards betterment of our alma mater.
Since we formed our OBA back in 2007 we have organized many successful events, such as Dinner Dance as a start, Kingswood Dharmaraja get-together, Kingswood Dharmaraja big match which is an annual event now, and also the Rugby 7’s tournament which we held on27th September 2014, for the 6th consecutive year, and also the Kings Rugby Ball which is also an annual event.
Kingswood Touch Rugby 7’s was the highlight of our OBA in Australia. As the founder of School Rugby in Sri Lanka we were really proud to organize the first ever touch rugby 7’s tournament amongst the Sri Lankan schools/clubs in 2009, and for the past 5 years it was a success.
Kingswood Touch Rugby 7s has 3 championships this year.
•Cup Championship
•Plate Championship
•Bowl Championship
Kingswood OBA is expecting 12 teams to take part in this year’s tournament, including teams from Kingswood College, Trinity College, Royal College, St Thomas College, St Peters College, Dharmaraja College and some club teams like Atkinsons, Waverley United, Huka Jets, Maroons & Carnegie Spartans.
To make this event a success Kingswood OBA has received support from Boxhill Rugby club, Whitehorse City Council as well as the Victorian Touch Rugby association.
Sunday 17th August Kingswood OBA held a captains briefing to discuss the tournament rules code of conduct and to receive any feedback or suggestions from all the representatives from all the teams and it was a success.
This is the biggest sporting event organized by any OBA based in Australia for all the schools and clubs to participate. Our main objective is to make this event a National event which represents Sri Lankan community in Australia.
We have made every effort make our tournament enjoyable for all teams, and fans that attend. Our primary goal of this tournament is to provide good competition, promote good sportsmanship and most of all friendship.
We Kingswood OBA cordially invite you all to attend this event on 27th September 2014 at Boxhill Rugby Ground.
