Elizabeth Moir School
| Elizabeth Moir School | |
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| Location | |
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100, Park Road, Colombo 5 4/20 Thalakotuwa Gardens, Colombo 5 Sri Lanka | |
| Information | |
| Type | Independent, international, co-educational day school |
| Founded | 1996 |
| Founder | Elizabeth Moir MBE, MA Hons Oxon |
| Age range | 2-18 |
| Number of students | 450 |
| Student to teacher ratio | 6:1 |
| Language | English |
| Percentage of Sri Lankans | 45% |
| Percentage of Non-Nationals | 55% |
| Student Variation | 74 Countries |
| University Destinations | Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial College, LSE, UCL, Harvard, Stanford, Cornell, Berkely, Chicago, UBC, NYU, HKU, NUS |
| Percentage on Scholarship | 8% |
| Website |
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Elizabeth Moir School a co-educational, international day school, located on two campuses in Colombo, Sri Lanka, which welcomes children of all nationalities aged between 2-18. It is the only international school in Sri Lanka to be owned and run by British Nationals. Since the school started in 1996, the school has welcomed students from over 74 different countries.Currently approximately 45% of the students are from the host country and the balance 55% are expatriates.
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 Elizabeth Moir School, where she is currently the principal.
Students and staff
There are approximately 450 students at the school at present, of whom 45% are from Sri Lanka, and 55% are expatriates.
The teachers who are from over 14 different countries have degrees from universities throughout the world, including Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard and Yale.
Curriculum
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 A level and 2016 at IGCSE.[1][2][3]
Since the school’s inception, students have been awarded places at Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial College, LSE, Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Cornell, Berkeley and have gained places, sometimes with full scholarships to many other top universities around the world.
Junior School
The Junior School has nine different levels. Early Learners, pre KG, KG1, KG2 and Junior 1-5. Literacy and Numeracy are the main focus of the curriculum throughout the junior school, while ICT, Science, Art, Music & Movement, Drama, Sports and Community Service are given equal prominence. The latest British text books, course content and methods of teaching are used for every subject.
Senior School
The Senior School has seven levels; Form 1-5, Lower 6 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 and five subjects. Subjects taught at this level are Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, History, English Literature, Geography and Economics. [4]
Sports
Elizabeth Moir School has a very strong sports section at both the Junior School and the Senior School. They concentrate mainly on team sports which include Football, Cricket, Basketball, Swimming and Athletics- with aquads in both schools for every age group.
Football is probably currently the strongest sport and Moir has been international schools champion several times and has beaten many of the top national schools as well.
In cricket they were the top school in the early days when Rumesh Ratnayake was their coach and they now expect to get back to that level again in a few years.
The basketball squads are doing better and better,and as well as playing teams here both boys and girls teams go to Malaysia every year to take on schools and clubs there.[5]
Moir has had and still has, several national athletes and swimmers who train daily in order to be able to be selected to represent Sri Lanka.
We have in the past 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. There are very popular and successful programs in singing, drama, mime, dance and art.
The school probably has one of the best school choirs in the country and they are always invited to perform at the Royal College Choirs Festival and also for the Edexcel Awards Ceremony at the BMICH.
Their plays and musicals are staged for packed audiences at the lionel Wendt Theatre, the top theatre in Colombo. Recent successes include the Crucible, A Few Good Men, Annie, Antigone, The Ramayana, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Whose Life is it Anyway and Footloose.[6]
School Trips and Community Service
Every year there are school trips to paris for the French students, Beijing for the Mandarin students, 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, Malaysia and Thailand for the Football, Cricket and Basketball squads.
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 and kidney transplant operations in Colombo.
All students take part in a community service project with their class every year. In addition students teach English to boys every week at the Salvation army Boys Home and work with the boys of Trinity College Kandy in villages between Colombo and Kandy.
References
- ↑ http://www.ft.lk/article/511197/Exceptional-Advanced-Level-results-for-Elizabeth-Moir-School
- ↑ http://www.elizabethmoirschool.com/news/best-ever-a-level-results-in-sri-lanka-2/
- ↑ http://www.ft.lk/article/566987/Moir-Ranked-Top-in-the-World--Best-IGCSE-Results-among-International-Schools
- ↑ http://www.elizabethmoirschool.com/academic/curriculum/
- ↑ http://www.elizabethmoirschool.com/news/sports-trip-malaysia/
- ↑ http://www.sundaytimes.lk/85445/elizabeth-moir-presents-footloose-musical