Welcome to Sumedha College!

At Sumedha we take a holistic approach to education. While providing our students with an excellent academic programmme, we strive to create well-rounded, well-disciplined and internationally competitive Sri Lankan citizens. This is done through our extensive programme of sports, extra-curricular and character development activities.

We give special attention to English Language and ICT education at Sumedha because, we believe that these skills are essential to succeed in whichever field of study our students choose to pursue. They are provided with state-of-the-art facilities and highly specialized teachers for both these subjects. In our Secondary Section, all subjects except Sinhala, history and aesthetics are taught in the English medium.

Sumedha College has 23 different sports activities and every student is required to participate in at least two different sports. Students have access to facilities such as a swimming pool, a modern indoor stadium and a playground with a 400m running track.Teaching our students the value of staying healthy and physically active through sports is one of our priorities.

We also encourage students to participate in other activities offered by the college such as Scouting, aesthetics events, various clubs and societies, and community service projects to develop their spirit of service to others. Through these activities, we teach our students the importance of empathy and service to society. We also consider it our responsibility to create students who have excellent teamwork skills, interpersonal skills, critical thinking skills and a high level of emotional intelligence.

With the looming dangers of climate change, the Earth which our children will inherit, is bound to have many unforeseen environmental problems. Therefore, it is extremely important that our students learn how to become environmentally-responsible citizens. Sumedha College with its beautiful 9-acres of greenery, has a medicinal-herb garden, an organic vegetable farm, a bio-gas plant and its own waste-water purification plant within the school premises. All these facilities are utilized to educate our students on environmental protection as well as sustainable agriculture.

Through our extensive academic programmes, we guide and prepare our students to achieve their best results at all school and government examinations. But we consider it equally important to teach them to respect our Sri Lankan culture and to live by Buddhist religious values. We teach them the value of personal qualities such as honesty, hard work, perseverance and compassion.

At Sumedha College, we strive to create students who possess the knowledge and the skills needed to boldly face their own future.

I wish all Sumedhians every success!

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education” – Martin Luther King

Samantha Perera, BBA(USA), CTD(AUS), MITD(SL)
Principal

Welcome to Sumedha College!

Our vision at Sumedha College is to develop world class Sri Lankans. Citizens possessing traditional values but with skills to succeed in life and in any profession. To achieve this our students are provideda comprehensive education with a thorough knowledge in English and encouraged to participate in a variety of extracurricular activities while maintaining discipline and cultural values at all times.

We encourage participation in extracurricular activities which includesports, clubs and society activities, aesthetic activities and many more. These activities help students to succeed in life by teaching them a separate set of skillswhich are outside the school curricular. These activities teach skillssuch asworking with others, leadership, planning, setting goals, adhering to discipline and maintaining one’s focus and determination to name a few. These skills also enable individuals to maintain a state of mental well-being,and adapt positively to the situations they encounter, and also teach them how to interact with othersfrom different cultures.

Our founding Chairman Dr Wilfred Wijesinghe, our board members,along with our dedicated staff, have provided you with a great educational institution with many sporting facilities in a beautiful environment. The education given at Sumedha college by our excellent teaching staff combined with the extensive extracurricular activities available, will enable our students to succeed in any professionof their choice in the years to come.

I wouldlike to urge these young children to use their time profitably at school. These valuable years will pass very quickly and before you realise, it will be time to leave school. Balance both your educational as well as your extracurricular activities,so that you will be able to reach your goals, and achieve long term success in life as well as in your chosen careers.

Dr. Harindu Wijesinghe,MBBS (Colombo ) ,MD (Colombo ) , MRCP (United Kingdom)
Consultant in Rheumatology and Rehabilitationan
Specialist in Sports Medicine
Vice Chairman Sumedha College