Elizabeth Moir School
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100, Park Road, Colombo 5 4/20 Thalakotuwa Gardens, Colombo 5 Sri Lanka
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| Type | Independent, international, co-educational day school |
| Founded | 1996 |
| Founder | Elizabeth Moir MBE |
| 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 | www |
100, Park Road, Colombo 5
Elizabeth Moir School is 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, it 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.
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.
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, Imperial College, Harvard and Yale.
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*.
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.
The Junior School classes are: Early Learners, Pre KG, KG1, KG2 and Junior 1-5.In the Infant Classes children learn mainly through play. Literacy and Numeracy are the main focus of the curriculum throughout the whole Junior School, while ICT, Science, History, Geography, Art, Music and Movement, Drama, PE and Swimming are given equal prominence. The latest British text books, course content and methods of teaching are used for every subject.
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.
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