Alethea relaunches with new-era learning infrastructure and technology based educational framework – [IMAGES]

(FASTNEWS | COLOMBO) –  Alethea School and Alethea International school has taken the
initiative to fill the mismatch of technology and the pre-existing traditional classroom education.
Through the relaunch of the school, Alethea will shift their educational vision towards a technology
driven educational framework that is reflected in the school’s teaching, learning process as well as
the infrastructural facilities that are in par with the Gen Z educational demands.

Alethea group, is one of the oldest privately-owned schools in Sri Lanka, with over 90 years history
in the field of education. The School is an official Pearson – Edexcel teaching center, that is
authorized to host examinations in Sri Lanka, as well as, a Cambridge International School
& British Council Partner School. As such, taking the next step towards becoming a leader in the
local educational industry, the school announced a relaunch with a complete facelift across
curriculum, extracurricular activities as well the facilities offered to the students.

“The educational philosophy of Alethea School and Alethea International School since its inception
by the founding family has been based on making the school ‘A home away from home to
everyone’. As such, we have always stood progressive in our outlook while sustaining the values of
our culture, traditions and multi-religious values. However, in the era of the Gen Z, we have
identified that it is crucial the education we deliver to our students replicates the positive
advancements of technology. Alethea Group, took measures to assess and evaluate the existing
academic programme and infrastructure, and made a decision to relaunch the entire school
framework, so that our delivery matches the ever-changing demands of the world outside.
Thereby, the school has introduced smart classrooms, along with many innovative turnkey
digital educational elements, including five digital science labs, two music studios & art studios, a
state of the art computer lab, an e-library. The school has also taken steps to create modernized
classrooms with students’ lockers, smart interactive boards. We also took measures to include an
international standard basketball court” indicated Anitra Perera, Managing Director/Coordinating
Principal, Alethea Group of Schools, chronicling the vision behind the relaunch of the school.

“In keeping with the technologically driven education framework, we have entered into
collaborations with many global education pioneers to bring in technology embedded educational
tools into our curriculum and teaching process. The collaborations include Cloud Smart School
Education, developed by CodeGen, a revolutionary platform for School Management, Learning
Management and Remote Learning, that has been endorsed by the Ministry of Education Sri Lanka.
A program that would enable an enhanced learning experience for the students, while ensuring an
effective approach in teaching. In addition, Alethea partnered with IgniterSpace, the largest
technology and innovation education provider in Sri Lanka for Igniter Space curriculum that
focuses on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education. Another
interesting partnership that would be available for the learners following the relaunch of the school
is extra-curricular activities that are designed to help children learn coding at a young age. An
attempt to prepare students for the future, helping them with communication, creativity, math,
writing, and confidence to face a technologically advanced future than that we know of.

The after-school coding activity will be initiated in partnership with Create Lab, Singapore’s leading Coding,
Robotics & Design Thinking school,” added Anitra Perera.

Anitra Perera further indicated, “As we all are aware, the younger generation of today’s society is
now facilitated with many smart devices for various reasons and we understand that it has become
a necessity with the current competitive environment among the activities of children.

Alethea has partnered with South Asian Technologies Pvt Ltd to provide Kaspersky Safe Kids, one of the
products of the Kaspersky family that provides internet safety to smart devices used by children
providing them the opportunity to be open to the world of technology while being monitored by
parents to ensure their kids are safe online.”

In addition to the digitalization of the entire school, Alethea Group has also made space for the
school to be an inclusive education institution that accommodates students of all caliber and
different academic needs. As such, the school houses a learning resource unit and a special needs
unit; both established to cater to the specific requirements of some of the students. The LRC assists
students who might otherwise find a regular classroom learning session challenging. The experts in
the LRC aptly support learners with dyslexia, attention deficit disorder, ADHD physical
impairments etc. The special needs unit is a separate facility dedicated to helping students with
severe difficulties. Special programmes are customized for each individual learner after extensive
consultations and meetings with parents.

One-to-one sessions, continuous observations, monitoring and assessing are rigorously applied to help such children integrate themselves into society. The school also conducts an Activity Center at the Junior school with the aim of providing young children, a comfortable, caring and safe environment while the parents are away at work.

The digitalized impact of the school is extended towards the parents of Alethea as well when it
comes to school fees, Alethea has partnered with two leading banks; Nations Trust Bank &
Sampath Bank to offer a range of facilities to the parents. NTB offers the following through Amex
– Online payments, child's school fee payments at Nations pay, Payments to Alethea can be easily
facilitated through FriMi, irrelevant of the customer having a NTB account or any other bank
account, which can easily be connected to FriMi account, and Alethea will be having an online
portal enabled at premise for parents to apply for a credit card to facilitate payments on 0% interest
schemes to Alethea. To open savings accounts and also most importantly to have a free of charge
financial evaluation. Sampath Vishwa online banking facility for school fee payment, in addition
to the Sampath Bank Credit card facilitate for the parents of Alethea International School without a
joining fee and first-year annual fee.

All Sampath Cardholders can enjoy up to 12 Months 0% interest installment plans for school Admissions fees and term fees.

About Alethea School and Alethea International School

Established in 1927, Alethea School and Alethea International School was registered as a private
company the following year. In 1954 it was registered with the Department of Examinations of Sri
Lanka as a Secondary School. From 1968 onwards, the students of Alethea sat for the General
Certificate of Education (GCE) Ordinary Level (O/L) Examinations in Sri Lanka in the Sinhala,
Tamil and English mediums. Anitra Perera is the 4th generation administrator of the school founded
by the Hapugalle/Perera family.

Photo Caption:

Image 1
(Seated L-R) Kumari Hapugalle Perera, Executive Director, Alethea School and Alethea
International School, Anitra Perera, Managing Director/ Coordinating Principal Alethea School and
Alethea International School, Buddhika Pathiraja, Principal, Alethea School and Alethea
International School

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Address by Anitra Perera, Managing Director/ Coordinating Principal Alethea School and Alethea
International School

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Exchanging of the MOU’S between Alethea Group & Nations Trust Bank, Mahesh Mendis – AVP
Branch Sales, Nations Trust Bank, Mithila Abeysekera – Manager Integrated Delivery Channels,
Nations Trust Bank & Anitra Perera – Managing Director/Coordinating Principal, Alethea School &
Alethea International School & Kumari Hapugalle Perera – Executive Director, Alethea School &
Alethea International School