Elizabeth Moir School

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Elizabeth Moir School
Location
100 Park road, Colombo 5
(Junior school)
4/20 Thalakotuwa Gardens, Colombo 5
(Senior school)

Sri Lanka
Information
TypeIndependent international co-educational day school
Founded1996
Founder Elizabeth Moir MBE
Age range2 - 18
Number of students520
Student to teacher ratio6:1
LanguageEnglish
Percentage of Sri Lankans45%
Percentage of non-nationals55%
Student variation74 countries
Percentage on scholarship8%
Website elizabethmoirschool.com

Elizabeth Moir School, founded in 1996, is a co-educational, international day school in Colombo, Sri Lanka. [1] It is attended by children aged between 2-18 of a wide variety of nationalities . Since the school started in 1996, it has enrolled students from over 74 different countries. Currently, approximately 45% of the students are from the host country and the balance (55%) are from expatriate families resident in Sri Lanka.

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History

Elizabeth Moir moved to Sri Lanka in 1982 with her husband and three children. Having been associated with international schools in Hong Kong and New Delhi, she founded Colombo International School months after arriving in Colombo, followed by the British School in Colombo some years later.

In 1996, she founded the Elizabeth Moir School, where she is currently the principal.

Students

There are approximately 520 students at the school at present, of whom 70% are from Sri Lanka, and 30% are expatriates.

Curriculum

The Senior School Entrance Moir ridge.JPG
The Senior School Entrance

Elizabeth Moir School uses the British education system. Students sit for IGCSE and Advanced Level examinations, set by Edexcel in Sri Lanka, and have had the best results of any international school outside the United Kingdom in both 2015 at Advanced Level, with 38% A* and in 2016 at IGCSE, with 64% A*. [2] [3] [4]

Senior School

The Senior School classes are: Form 1-5, Lower 6th and Upper 6th. In Form 4, students begin the IGCSE courses and they sit the examinations which are set by Edexcel and are marked in London in usually eight to ten subjects. Courses available are, English Language, English Literature, Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Human Biology, History, Geography, ICT, Mandarin, French, Sinhala, Tamil and Art. In the Lower 6th students begin the Advanced Level and they sit the examinations, which are set and marked by Edexcel, in three, four or five subjects. Courses taught at this level are Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, History, English Literature, Geography and Economics. [5]

Sports

Elizabeth Moir School concentrates mainly on team sports which include Football, Cricket, Basketball, Swimming and Athletics with both boys’ and girls’ squads in both schools for most age groups.

Football is probably currently the strongest sport. The Under 19 Team has been International Schools Champion several times and has beaten many of the top national schools as well. Both Boys’ and Girls’ Squads compete in Malaysia once a year.

In Cricket, the Boys' Under 19 Team were frequently International Schools’ Champion when Rumesh Ratnayake was their coach.

In Basketball, there are squads for both boys and girls throughout both schools, and they compete with schools and clubs in Sri Lanka as well as in Malaysia.

Moir School has Squads for both Athletics and Swimming consisting of about fifty boys and girls from ages 6 to 18. Elizabeth Moir School hosts an annual four way Swimming Meet for the four main international schools in Colombo at the fifty metre Air Force Pool in Ratmalana.

The School has had, and still has, several National Athletes and Swimmers who train daily despite their many school commitments. They have also had students who represented Sri Lanka in Rowing, Cricket and Squash.

The Performing and Creative Arts

From an early age, students are encouraged to participate in the Performing and Creative Arts and in doing so they develop both their talents and their confidence. There are very popular and successful programs in Singing, Instrumental Music, Drama, Mime, Dance, Debating and Art.

There are daily Assemblies at both schools, and students get regular practice speaking into a mic and performing in front of an audience.

There are Interhouse Competitions in Singing and Dance, Drama, Debating, General Knowledge, Film and Art, in the Senior School, and this enables the teachers to select students to represent the school for inter school events.

The Senior School Choir is frequently invited to perform at the Royal College Choirs Festival and also for the Edexcel Awards Ceremony at the BMICH. Every other year they are joined by the Junior and Infant Choirs for Carols at school with Chamber Choirs from Royal and Trinity.

Elizabeth Moir School stages both Junior School and Senior School plays, musicals and concerts for packed audiences at the Lionel Wendt Theatre, the top theatre in Colombo. Recent successes include the 12 Angry Jurors, Crucible, A Few Good Men, Annie, Antigone, The Ramayana, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Whose Life is it Anyway and Footloose. [6]

Both Junior and Senior Schools have annual Art Exhibitions at the Lionel Wendt and Barefoot Galleries in Colombo.

They have Debating and Quiz Teams who compete regularly with other schools. [6]

School Trips, Internships and Community Service

The Juniors have regular trips throughout the year mainly in the Colombo area.

There are frequent Senior School trips to Paris for the French students, Beijing for the Mandarin students, St. John's College Jaffna for the Community Service students, the Cultural Triangle and Ancient Capitals of Sri Lanka for the Middle School History students, the National University of Singapore for the Advanced Level Science students, and Malaysia and soon Thailand for the Football, Cricket and Basketball squads. Leadership Camps with white water rafting, abseiling and other adventure sports are organized at Kitulgala and elsewhere for students from Form 4 upwards.

In addition, Senior Students are encouraged to do internships during their holidays and these include, Beijing University, the United Nations in New York, Game Parks in South Africa and Rwanda, a hospital in Colombo for kidney transplant operations, Flying School in Ratmalana, and offices of architects, lawyers. IT firms in Colombo.

All students take part in a Community Service Project with their class every year. In addition, students volunteer to teach English to young boys every week at the Salvation Army Boys’ Home. The Sixth Form has an ongoing project with the Foundation of Goodness near Galle, which is also promoted by Mahela Jayawardena and Kumar Sangakkara. The students also work with the boys of Trinity College Kandy in deprived villages between Colombo and Kandy, under the auspices of Sri Lanka Unites, a student driven project promoting unity in the island.

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References

  1. ↑ "About Us". Elizabeth Moir School. Retrieved 2024-03-22.
  2. ↑ "Exceptional Advanced Level results for Elizabeth Moir School | Daily FT".
  3. ↑ "Best Ever a Level Results in Sri Lanka".
  4. ↑ "Moir Ranked Top in the World: Best IGCSE Results among International Schools | Daily FT".
  5. ↑ "Curriculum".
  6. 1 2 "Sunday Times - Elizabeth Moir presents 'Footloose' the musical". www.sundaytimes.lk. Archived from the original on 2015-12-06.

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