Asian International School combines Kindergarten, Primary and Secondary School into one harmonious whole. It takes children from the playgroup age of 2 ½ and sees them right through their school life until they reach the University Entrance classes. From the start they are prepared, academically, to enter the University of their choice anywhere in the world.
AIS has a history of 22 years and is located in the heart of Colombo with its own attractive buildings and swimming pool. It is amongst the top three international schools in Colombo with the highest number of students gaining all As at the Edexcel Examinations. The main school is located in Thalakotuwa Gardens, Colombo 5 and AIS has a Montessori branch at Battaramulla. We follow the British system of Education and our students sit through 'Edexcel' for the public exams. Past pupils of AIS have proceeded to carve out careers for themselves as Doctors, Business Leaders, Engineers, Teachers, Lecturers and Executives of various companies. Their excellent basic education at AIS has stood them in good stead in their respective callings. (see University) . |
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The Founder- Principal of AIS is Dr (Mrs) Goolbai Gunasekara who has had many years of experience in the world of education. She comes from a family of educationists. Her mother, Mrs Clara Motwani, was the well known American Principal and leader of Buddhist girls’ education in Sri Lanka while her father Dr Kewal Motwani was a Professor of Sociology in both India and the USA. Dr Gunasekara is a popular author of several books of humorous sketches and 4 books of World History written in collaboration with the British Council and the University of Sabaragamuwa. She has guided AIS from being a school with 16 students on its first day, to having over 1200 students today – 22 years later. |
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In January 2011, Dr Gunasekara was appointed a Director of the school’s Board of Governors and Mrs Priyanthi Seneviratne was invited to take over as Principal. The school has a strong leadership body lead by the Principal Ms. Priyanthi Seneviratne.
Mrs.Priyanthi Seneviratne counts over seventeen years experience at Ladies’ College, in teaching Advanced Level English and Greek & Roman Civilization; and eight years as Head of the English Department and a member of the Staff Council – a ten member administrative body (including the Principal and Vice Principal) in charge of all spheres of the school’s administration. Later, Priyanthi left the academia and took up the challenges of the corporate sector when she joined the advertising world for three years, followed by her nine year career as Head of the Sri Lanka Regional Office of The Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK. More >>
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AIS is recognised as a 'Teacher Training Centre' by Edexcel, which allows the conducting of exams within the school as a centre eliminating any intermediary organisations like the British Council for instance.
Sport is given an important place in the School's curriculum. The school encourages Swimming, Basketball, Netball,Badminton, Tennis, Soccer and Rowing. Music and Dance is taught as part of the curriculum up to Grade 8. Clubs and Societies encourage further specialization.
It is the aim of AIS to provide students with a sound moral basis, a well educated mind with a solid academic foundation and, very importantly, to develop a balanced well rounded person. Academic learning must go hand in hand with character development and to this end we train our pupils at AIS.
AIS aims at producing the 'Total Personality'. These are days of specialization but before our pupils begin to do this the school makes every attempt to give them a well-rounded and perfectly balanced education. This all-round education is available to any child who wants to make use of the excellent opportunities to study in this school.
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