Methodist College, Colombo

Methodist College is a girls school in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

In 1866, a missionary called Miss Catherine Scott came to Sri Lanka (then known as Ceylon) and started the "Kollupitiya Girl's English School" in a large room with barely 40 girls. There were 3 sections in this room, that were 2 for Sinhala and English classes and the other one for herself, in order to learn Sinhala from a pundit.

In 1883, when Miss Scott left, the school was registered as a "Grant-in-Aid" English high school with 99 students and renamed as "Kollupitiya Girls High School."

The school currently offers girls classes up to University entrance level. It maintains a student body of 1800++ and approximately 75 teachers. The institution conducts 2 streams of classes in Sinhala and Tamil with English as a second language.

Notable alumni

• Manel Abeyratne - Former Ambassador of Sri Lanka to Germany and Thailand^[1]

References

1. ^ Memoirs of a happy diplomat

External links

• http://www.methodistcollege.org/

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