Lifelong love of learning
View(s):Every parent wants to give their children the very best start in life, positioning them for a lifelong love of learning, poised for success. If your child is to grab all of the opportunities that life sends their way, and make the best of their talents and abilities, we have to engender a love of learning from a young age.
This is exactly what happens at Polymath College Nawinna, Maharagama. The college has tailored the curricular to create a love of learning in their students from a very young age. Here, your child will enjoy our interactive programmes that have been developed to enhance their key school and life readiness skills including critical thinking, communication and collaboration, as well as creativity and confidence.
An opportunity to explore the world
School is very important, but it’s not the only setting where your children can learn. The staff at our college, fire up the minds of the children to learn beyond the school walls. Children don’t need to be in close proximity to notebooks, whiteboards memorizing history facts and solving math problems. Learning is an interactive process of analyzing, questioning, and discussing; learning is looking for new meanings and unique applications of knowledge in every situation.
Exposing your children to as many meaningful experiences as possible Polymath College attempts to broaden their knowledge, improve early childhood education, and cultivate the type of awareness and appreciation that can’t be taught from a textbook. Commencing with kindergarten the College now has classes up to advanced level, in Sinhala and English medium both local syllabus as well as Cambridge syllabus.
Creating smart minds
Polymath College takes every effort to make all students number smart, word smart and picture smart. Mathematical intelligence which uses numbers, math, and logic will help understand the various patterns that occur in our lives. People inclined towards logical-mathematical intelligence like to conduct experiments, to solve puzzles and other problems, to ask cosmic questions, and analyze circumstances and people’s behaviour. A picture smart child tends to think in images and pictures. They are highly aware of object, shapes, colours, textures, and patterns in the surrounding environment. They like to draw, paint, and make interesting designs and patterns, and work with clay, construction paper, and fabric.
Making a child word smart develops a whole range of social skills that are needed for effective person-to-person communication and relating. People strong in this intelligence learn through personal interactions. They have lots of friends; show a great deal of empathy for other people and exhibit a deep understanding of other points of view. They love team activities of all kinds and are a good team member. They are sensitive to other people’s feelings and ideas.
Polymath College believes that every child is capable and can achieve great heights if guided in a proper way in the early years of their lives.
Making a child nature smart
The Naturalist intelligence could be described as being ‘Nature Smart.’ It is the ability to recognize varieties of trees and bushes and which of them provide food; to observe the clouds in the sky and know what weather is coming; to spot birds and the beautiful butterflies. In an age where iPad-armed children are found the college unites the children with nature. Polymath College has taken another bold step to train the children to shift their life styles from unhealthy instant food to consume what they grow in home gardens. Thus the college garden is adorned with lemons, snake gourd, cabbages, tomatoes and capsicums. You will find vegetables, fruits, greens grown all around the school premises. There is also the Butterfly Garden where children learn to love every living being.
Affordable education and care
Polymath College has made education affordable for the middle class, especially for children who could not enter the government schools. The teachers conduct extra classes for students who need more attention while Tamil, Yoga, Scrabble and Chess are taught in school within the school curriculum.
Polymath College also provides additional backing for parents by maintaining a ‘Day Care Centre’. They will take care of the children till 9pm on all 365 days which is a great relief for most of working parents as they know that the most precious being of their lives are in safe hands.
Leaders that walk ahead
The visionary leader of the College, its Principal, Upali Gunasekera (former principal of Royal College Colombo) being a skilled administrator in the field of education will prove beyond doubt his abilities in delivering the best for the students of Polymath College.
The well qualified and dedicated staff of the College ensures that all students grasp their book work during the school hours. Thus seeking extra assistance after school is highly discouraged and is not needed. It offers the students of the college time for relaxation, reading or engaging in an extracurricular activity which makes them a complete human being.
A Dose of Culture
Broaden the children’s horizons and possibly creating lifelong interests, hobbies, and passions the College is in a bid to create an international personality with Sri Lankan identity. The motto of Polymath College is `Learn to live’ and vision is to create an international personality with Sri Lankan identity. The college wants children to uphold the Sri Lankan culture and its values. More than the subject matter children are taught to live and under the wings of the college they grow up to be sensitive human beings.