#24 Orientation week, giving thanks, BINGO and hope
Lots of things to celebrate this week! We are celebrating 24 weeks of Avinya’s blog being up, a moving multi-religious ceremony to commemorate the soft opening of our beautiful new campus facility and meeting and connecting with some wonderful new people in our new home in Bandaragama. We are celebrating one more thing: the start […]
#23 Curveballs, Grit and Action Stations
“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein This week I’d like to open with this quote because it’s been an interesting week full of curveballs and some unique challenges. I chose this particular quote because it encapsulates the essence of how we at Avinya […]
#22 Uniforms, Norming, Storming, Performing and Roofs
Let’s start with uniforms this week. We gave out our first set of uniforms to our enrolled students this week. Let me tell you that the sheer look of happiness on everyone’s faces, parents and students, could only be compared with our excitement to teach them and empower them through the curriculum and learning experience […]
#21 GTKY, Inspiring reads and Karapincha
This week, has been a lot of fun and I will tell you why – very simple, GTKY. GTKY = Get To Know You. That’s exactly what our Educator team has been busy doing apart from interviewing, workshops and onboarding students. They have been spending time getting to know their students. We’ve divided the students enrolled […]
#20 Hello 2023
As the sun rises on another new year, 2023 holds the morning breeze of hope and dewdrops of anticipation. We take a deep breath, count to ten and leap… What’s on the other side? Only time will tell 🙂 How did you ring in the new year? Did you party to the hilt or like […]
#19 Goodbye 2022
In this last week of 2022, team Avinya has continued to be a busy colony of bees. Our wonderful Educator team has been reaching out to students who have applied and processing their applications. We continue to have the pleasure of meeting our prospective new students at interviews down in Bandaragama. Our new school building […]
#18 Sigiriya, Shilpa and Shastra
We’ve continued to keep our focus on student recruitment this week as well as ensuring our academic management systems continue to take shape. In addition, we had lots of things going on in parallel. For example, Lakshman, Samisa and our team of Educators delivered workshops to raise awareness and to engage our enrolled students. It’s […]
#17 Mung Kavum, Wali Thalapa and Student Enrollments
Me: Thank you for coming for the interview. We are happy for you to enroll with the Avinya Academy Bandaragama. Here are our enrollment details, why don’t you take some time to think it over and we’ll have a chat with your parents too. Student: I want to join now. Me: That’s wonderful! Let’s go […]
#16 Thank you for being kind
“Thank you for being kind!” This is a phrase many of the parents said with beaming smiles as they left after their child had finished their interview with us this week. “It’s great that you are helping Sri Lankan students!” “This is a great project!” These are some of the other ideas they shared with […]
#15 Giving Hope. Creating Vision. Changing Lives.
This week’s blog title is us in six words. As Sanjiva always keeps reminding us – who is this all about anyway? The students, of course! This week has been all about the students. It’s been a personal highlight and I’m sure for many in the team as well. On Tuesday, we headed down to […]