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Blumenau, Brazil · Private
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A private school in central Blumenau, the oldest campus of the Franciscan Bom Jesus network of thirty-seven schools across the country. It runs the full path: kindergarten from the age of two, the nine-year Ensino Fundamental from the 1st to the 9th year, and three years of Ensino Médio. Bilingualism is arranged here as a choice: the regular classes follow the Oxford Quality School programme, while those who wish take a full-day international bilingual programme in which the nine-year Ensino Fundamental is built on a Cambridge course. The campus is large and sporting - separate buildings for kindergarten and for after-school care, a sports hall with rooms for judo, ballet and chess, a synthetic football pitch, a gym, a mini-town, an experimental kitchen, an amphitheatre, laboratories and a vegetable garden. The school takes pride in public speaking, financial literacy and entrepreneurship in the senior years and serves as a Google for Education reference school. The school reports neither fees, nor pupil numbers, nor the founding year of the campus itself on its site.
Key facts
Admits from
2 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Portuguese, English
About the fees The school does not name its tuition fees on the site: the page on enrolment tells only about the methodology and invites you to sign up; amounts, charges and discounts are not shown there.
Stages and year groups Grades Educação Infantil Nível A - 3.ª série do Ensino Médio. The campus page lists the stages word for word: "Educação Infantil - Nível A ao Nível D", "Ensino Fundamental - 1.º ao 9.º ano", "Ensino Médio - 1.ª série a 3.ª série". It then divides them into three sets. The regular run: "Educação Infantil: a partir do nível A (2 anos)". English: "Língua inglesa: Oxford Quality School (Ensino Regular) e High School - Educação Infantil: a partir do nível D (4 anos), Ensino Fundamental, Ensino Médio". And as a separate choice: "Opção de Currículo Internacional Bilíngue - Período Integral - Educação Infantil: Níveis C e D; Ensino Fundamental: Currículo Cambridge International". That is, the school ties the Cambridge course to the nine-year Ensino Fundamental within the full-day programme, and not to all its classes.
Address Rua Santo Antônio, s/nº, Centro, Blumenau - SC
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · authorised programmeGrupo Educacional Bom Jesus · school is part of the networkschool is in an official registryconfirmed by a school document, by membership or by taking part in a networkclaimed by the school, no confirmation, not counted in the scoreGuide to all organisations → What stands behind each entry
CambridgeCambridge International Education
Part of the University of Cambridge. It allows a school to teach the Cambridge programmes and to enter pupils for the exams. There are four stages and they are authorised separately: primary, lower secondary, IGCSE and A Level. If the stages are known they are named in the line below; if that line is missing, the school does not publish them, and the Cambridge registry does not show stages either - it gives only the name of the centre, the country and whether private candidates are accepted. Cambridge calls what it does registration rather than accreditation, and the network holds about ten thousand schools.
What the badge means for this school. The school is allowed to run this programme and to award its certificate. This is a confirmation of the programme, not a judgement on the school as a whole. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it. Which stages - from the early years programme for three-year-olds up to A-Level - this school is approved for is not stated here.
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A church non-profit association, the Associação Franciscana de Ensino Senhor Bom Jesus (AFESBJ), established in 1955 as the maintainer of a college and appearing since 2016 under the name Grupo Educacional Bom Jesus; it is linked to the Franciscan province Província Franciscana da Imaculada Conceição do Brasil, and its president is Brother João Mannes. The school itself counts from 11 May 1896, when Father Franz Auling opened the Escola Popular Alemã Católica in Curitiba; from 1902 the school has been led by the Franciscans. The numbers diverge: the home page and "Quem somos" speak of 37 units in five states, 26,000 pupils and 2,290 teachers, while the list of contacts gives 35 units - 14 in Paraná, 9 in Santa Catarina, 6 in Rio Grande do Sul and 3 each in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The group added its schools by purchase, and the chronicle lists them by name with dates. Separately from its own schools, the group sells the Sistema Educacional Bom Jesus to outside private schools: a Termo de Convênio contract, implementation of the system, textbooks, teacher training, and administrative and marketing consultancy. Of such conveniada schools the website says that their mission, philosophy and logo remain their own, that is, a school with the Bom Jesus system is not called Bom Jesus. The word "franchise" does not appear on the website, and neither does a number of conveniadas. The network gives no accreditation of its own; since 2008 its units have belonged to the UNESCO Associated Schools Network.
What this means for this school. The network owns or operates the school. Its accreditation and programme authorisation the school obtains separately, in its own name.
Exams and destinations from the school's official website
The school publishes nothing about where its leavers go: no share going on to university, no exam results, no list of universities.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
·Sports hallnot stated on the website
✓LaboratoriesYes (Laboratórios)
✓Theatre or assembly hall
·Librarynot stated on the website
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field · Makerspace
Campus: The distinguishing features of this campus are given as a list: separate buildings for the pre-school stage and for the extended day; parking and a drop-off and pick-up zone; full air conditioning of the buildings; a mini-town; a space for inventi; an experimental kitchen; an amphitheatre; a playground; a room for reading fairy tales; a multi-sport hall and rooms for judo, ballet and chess; a football pitch with a synthetic surface; a gym; a vegetable garden and a small green; laboratories; security and video surveillance; separate rooms for the senior school's specialist strands. The school is named a Google for Education reference school. A vegetable garden and a green.
Clubs and activities (13): Badminton · Ballet · Basketball · Futsal · Rhythmic gymnastics · Handball · Judo · Robotics · Guitar · Chess · Table tennis · Volleyball · Theatre
Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their qualifications.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
·CCTVnot stated on the website
✓Security staffThe list of the campus's distinguishing features includes "Seguranca e monitoramento".
·Access controlnot stated on the website
·Nurse or medical roomnot stated on the website
·Counsellornot stated on the website
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The network keeps a cross-disciplinary Departamento de Saúde Escolar - "Fomos pioneiros no Brasil na criação de um Departamento de Saúde Escolar multidisciplinar, em 1994" - with nurses on the campuses and departments of educational speech therapy and school psychology. They are listed by name with their starting years: "Programa de Triagens Escolares (desde de 1995)", "Programa de Prevenção de Autoagressão (desde de 2008)", "Programa de Prevenção ao Bullying (desde de 2010)", "Programa de Desenvolvimento de Habilidades Socioemocionais (desde de 2012)", "Programa de Procedimentos em Necessidades Educacionais Especiais (desde de 2014)", "Programa de Estratégias de Prevenção de Ataque com Armas em Escolas (desde de 2014)".
Reviews
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Academics and programmes (16%)60 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data55 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data60 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data70 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data78 Value for money (6%) scored at the median70 "Scored on disclosed data" stands where we count only what the school has written about itself on its own site: exams and destinations, safety and wellbeing, teaching staff, facilities, clubs and activities. A low score here means the school does not write about this, not that the school does not have it: a school with good security and a sparse site will score low. A school can fill in its profile, and the score will be counted again.
The score is counted from 7 of the 9 criteria.Only those with checkable data count: programmes and accreditations from official registers, the fee from a published price list. Where it says "scored on the median", the school has no data and the middle of the list is put in its place, so that a gap gives no advantage. Admissions, teaching staff and reviews come in as their data arrives.
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