

The boy hostel was situated at the Telijawila junction in 1948.Each year the students who got through the grade 5 scholarship examinations were admitted to the hostel. Mr.A.W.O.De Silva was the first warden. He was a strict disciplinarian.
The hostel was in “wickramasingha”bungalow. The hostel was surrounded by a woody land and there were coconut, rubber, and cinnamon states stretching far away. At the beginning the hostellers got food in the girl hostel, in the course of time the food was prepared in the boy hostel. The first cook was Mr.Hinni Appuhamy.