The Grade Five Scholarship Examination shapes a Sri Lankan childhood in ways that few other school milestones do, and the pressure it generates falls on parents as much as on the children sitting it. This book is about that pressure: the anxieties and confusions the examination creates in households, and how they can be eased so that a child can approach the paper calmly rather than fearfully.
Dinithi Padmasiri writes as a counsellor and as a lecturer at the University of Kelaniya. Her concern here is the mental side of scholarship preparation rather than the syllabus — not what a child should revise, but the state of mind in which revision and the examination itself are met, and the part parents play in setting it.
The publisher addresses the book particularly to parents of children preparing for the scholarship, and to teachers working with the primary grades. Both groups sit close enough to the child to influence how the year feels.
Please note that this book is written entirely in Sinhala. There is no English text. It will be of use to readers who are comfortable reading Sinhala prose — Sri Lankan families abroad raising children within the national curriculum, teachers of Sinhala-medium primary classes, and anyone following the examination from outside the country.
Published in Colombo by M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd, an established Sri Lankan publishing house issuing titles in Sinhala and English.
- Author: Dinithi Padmasiri
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552128035
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