St Bridget's Convent

St. Bridget’s Convent has a long history of excelling its academics, sports and extra-curricular activities. Our students have excelled in all these fields. Our main objective is to attain and maintain academic excellence, although we encourage them to bring out their other hidden talents as well.

Not only do we, acknowledge the individual achievements of the students who excelled in various fields, we also foster a learning environment where the students are given the opportunity and are encouraged to reach the peak in the subjects they have chosen.

We strive to maintain the long standing traditions of the school. We maintain discipline and order. This we do in keeping with the motto of our Alma Mater “GENTLY AND FIRMLY”.

Our aim is to produce individuals with correct values and attitudes who will have the ability to cope with the challenges of today’s fast changing society, to produce individuals having a holistic approach to life.

It is almost impossible to imagine that St. Bridget’s Convent, the school which has moulded so many lives and sent so many ‘successes’ out into the world was once (hundred years ago, to be precise) just a thought.. one man’s dream.

In 1902, Reverend Dr. T. A. Melizan (the then Archbishop of Colombo) saw his long entertained dream become a reality when the Sisters of the Good Shepherd opened a school for the education of young ladies.

A school which, to a person standing on the brink of its centenary year, sounds very much like a typical storybook school. Close your eyes and you can almost see it; the twinkle-eyed nuns who were ‘supposed to be’ strict disciplinarians, lessons under trees when the weather was good, jovial teachers with a distinct sense of joie-vivre and their band of students with high hopes, dreams and expectations.

100 years later we look back with nostalgia to the beginnings of our school and it is with a sense of pride that we walk down the annals of its history.