sentences:  St. Anne's becomes a Grade 1 School, the only one in the North Western Province in 1947, the results of public examination continues to be the best in the province, the student population rises to 1340 by 1955, the science block is declared open in 1949, which was donated by Chevalier C.L.W.Perera an eminent criminal lawyer of the country who was also a benefactor of the school and who was honored by the pope by a knighthood for the services rendered to the Catholic Church.In the same year the Main block is completed, a Cadet Corps is started in 1952, 1953 marks the rise of the two-storied primary block.