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|name           = Newstead Girls College
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|motto          = ''More Beyond''<br />translated from the Latin ''[[plus ultra]]''
|established    = ((start date and age|1815))
|founder        = [[Robert Newstead (missionary)|Robert Newstead]] ministers
|type           = [[Public school (National school)(government funded)|Public|National]] 
|grades         = Classes 1- 13
|principal      = Gayani Herath
|enrollment     = 3500+
|staff          = 
|gender         = Girls
|age            = 6 to 19
|upper_age      = 
|languages      = Sinhala,English,Tamil
|colours        = Red🟥
|religion       = [[Methodist]]
|alumni         = Newsteadites
|location       = [[Negombo]]
|country        = [[Sri Lanka]]
|website        = [http://www.newsteadcollege.net/index.html Newstead Girls College]
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'''Newstead Girls' College''', [[Negombo]] is the oldest existing girls' college and the third oldest public school in [[Sri Lanka]], founded by [[Methodism|Wesleyan]] ministers in 1815-1816.<ref>((cite news|title=Newstead turns 196|url=https://archives.sundayobserver.lk/2012/08/05/new60.asp|newspaper=[[Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka)]]|date=5 August 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924132504/http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2012/08/05/new60.asp|archive-date=24 September 2015))</ref> Asia's first girls' school.

==History==
[[Methodist]] missionaries founded the '''Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School''' in 1815, with ''Muhandiram'' L.E.Pereira as the [[head master]]. In September 1816, a regular school was established with the Rev. Don Daniel Pereira as the schoolmaster. On 17 September
1817, the Rev. Robert Newstead was appointed the first resident Minister of Negombo and the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] bungalow, which later came to be known as the Mission House was bought that same year.

In January 1818, a girls' school was proposed. In 1820, with the completion of the Wesleyan church, the Mission House was fully released for the school.

In 1883, the original ''[[cadjan]]'' classrooms were replaced by a permanent building. In 1895 the [[vernacular]] school was upgraded to the status of an English school.

In 1911 the school was transformed into the '''Wesleyan Girls English High School'''. In 1916 Claribel Beven became the first girl to get through the Elementary School Leaving Certificate Examination and in 1917 the first woman missionary principal, A. D. Dixon, was appointed.

In 1919 the school was renamed 'Newstead' after the first resident Minister of Negombo. In 1951, Newstead became an [[assisted school]] in terms of the Free Education Act of 1944. In 1962 the School was vested in the government, ending a period of 147 years during which the school was run by the [[Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society]].

'''Past Principals:''' 
* Mudlier L. E. Pereira
* Rev. Don Daniel Perera
* Rev. Robert Newstead ( - 1924 )
* Rev. Rigby
* Rev. H. S. Sanford ( 1885 - 1891 )
* Rev. M. Hartley ( 1898 - 1899 )
* Ms. C. H. Ward ( - 1902 )
* Ms. Lawrence ( - 1911 )
* Ms. Laura ( 1911 - 1913 )
* Ms. C. De Vos ( 1914 - 1916 )
* Ms. A. D. Dixon ( 1917 - 1942 )
* Ms. Grace Robins ( 1943 - 1951 )
* Ms. D. K. Williams ( 1951 - 1954 )
* Ms. Orloff ( 1955 - 1960 )
* Ms. Edith Ridge ( 1960 - 1962 )
* Ms. Clarice De Mel ( 1962 - 1975 )
* Ms. Rodrigo ( 1975 - 1982 )
* Ms. Gunaratne ( 1982 - 1983 )
* Ms. J. M. Sumanasinghe ( 1983 - 1985 )
* Ms. R. M. Senaratne ( 1985 - 2003 )
* Ms. B. M. Weerasuriya ( 2003 - 2008 )
* Ms. Gayani Herath ( 2008 - to date )

== Motto ==
The motto of the school is ''More Beyond'', translated  from the Latin ''[[Plus Ultra (motto)|plus ultra]] '', the motto of [[Francis Bacon]], who used it, along with the device of a ship of discovery, sailing past the [[Pillars of Hercules]], out of the small Mediterranean sea into the vast Atlantic Ocean beyond, to describe the knowledge he offered mankind. It is a symbol of transcendence: open systems go beyond boundaries and point past themselves, toward a greater universe; beyond the finite, there is the infinite; beyond the known, the unknown.

== Houses ==
* '''Ward House'''
Colour - Green<br />
Motto - Do the Task Before You 
* '''Dixon House'''
Colour - Orange<br />
Motto - Each for All and All for Each
* '''Hartley House'''
Colour - Yellow<br />
Motto - Keep Smiling
* '''Lawrence House'''
Colour - Black<br />
Motto - Up and On

== Current Situation == 
Currently the principal of Newstead Girls' College Negombo is Gayani Herath. The current population of the school is about 3,500. The tutorial staff consist of about 125 teachers.

==Notable alumni ==
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| ((sortname|Shalani|Tharaka)) 
| style="text-align:center;" | 
| actress, model
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| ((sortname|Ruby|de Mel)) 
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| actress
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|-
| ((sortname|Michelle|Dilhara)) 
| style="text-align:center;" | 
| [[actress]] , [[Author]] , [[Earth Day|Earth Day Ambassador]] 
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref name="CT2020">((cite news |url=http://archives1.sundayobserver.lk/2020/06/07/spectrum/actress-michelle-dilhara-becomes-%E2%80%98earth-day-network%E2%80%99-ambassador-sri-lanka|title=Actress Michelle Dilhara Becomes 'Earth Day Network' Ambassador for Sri Lanka|newspaper=[[Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka)|Sunday Observer]] |date=6 June 2020|access-date=6 June 2020))</ref><ref>((Cite web |title=Go Green Embassy Initiative 상세보기((!))Embassy Notice Embassy of the Republic of Korea in the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka |url=https://overseas.mofa.go.kr/lk-en/brd/m_2309/view.do?seq=759931 |access-date=2021-09-28 |website=overseas.mofa.go.kr))</ref>
|-
| ((sortname|Vidusha|Lakshani)) 
| style="text-align:center;" | 
| [[triple jump]]er
| style="text-align:center;" |<ref name="morning-april">((cite news |title=Vidusha Lakshani: Bringing smile to weeping Negombo |url=http://www.themorning.lk/vidusha-lakshani-bringing-smile-to-weeping-negombo/ |accessdate=2 August 2019 |work=The Morning |date=28 April 2019))</ref>
|}

==See also==
*[[List of the oldest schools in Sri Lanka]]

==References==
((Reflist))

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20091027224439/http://www.newsteadcollege.net/index.html Newstead Girls College homepage]
* https://web.archive.org/web/20100730063852/http://www.ihgs.ac.uk/competition/robert_newstead.html - A Portrait of Robert Newstead - one of Wesley's missionaries by Jane Swan

((Education in Sri Lanka))

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[[Category:Educational institutions established in 1815]]
[[Category:Educational institutions established in 1816]]
[[Category:Former Methodist schools in Sri Lanka]]
[[Category:National schools in Sri Lanka]]
[[Category:Girls' schools in Sri Lanka]]
[[Category:Schools in Negombo]]
[[Category:1815 establishments in Ceylon]]

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