← Back to homeColegio Hölters Natur
Los Cardales, Argentina · est. 1928 · Private
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Colegio Hölters Natur has stood in Los Cardales since 1928 and occupies twelve hectares, where each stage has its own building. The school is bilingual in English and teaches German as a third language: the primary school prepares pupils for Trinity College examinations, the secondary school for Cambridge IGCSE, Cambridge English and the Oxford Test of English, and in German for Goethe-Institut certificates; leavers receive the national bilingual diploma and may go on to the ICE Diploma. Teaching is by project: the secondary school runs GPS, in which pupils choose activities by interest themselves, there is a course in integral human education that includes sex education content, and from 2026 a subject on artificial intelligence is being added. The shared facilities are a sports pitch, a sports hall, swimming pools, a dining room and multi-purpose halls; the campus has a uniform stand, a kiosk and a bookshop, a nurse works throughout the school day and there is a support team of psychologists and educational psychologists. In the evenings the Hölters Cardales Club is open, with roller skating, aerial silks, hockey, cookery and athletics, and in summer the same place runs a holiday camp for children from a year and a half old to the sixth year, with a swimming pool, lifeguards and a permanent medical service. The school does not publish its fees, its pupil numbers, the age of entry to the youngest stage or lists of the universities its leavers go on to; the school plans to open a second site, Hölters Nova, in the El Club gated community off Route 4.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE
Languages of instruction
Spanish, English
About the fees The school does not state its fees: it has neither a fees section nor an admissions page on its site. The only figures given are for the after-school activities of the Hölters Cardales Club: from 30,000 to 40,000 pesos a month per activity.
Stages and year groups Grades Nivel Inicial - Nivel Secundario (Secundaria Superior). Nivel Inicial with salas that the school calls Hormiguitas, Jirafas and Delfines; the evening club timetable names Sala de 4 and Sala de 5. Nivel Primario runs from 1º to 6º grado: "Los campamentos, realizados desde 1º a 6º grado". Nivel Secundario is divided into Secundaria Básica and Secundaria Superior, and the school does not say which year it ends with. Alongside the school stages there is a Nivel Terciario - the CIEDA centre, with teacher-training courses in physical educati, English and Italian.
Address Los Flamencos 125, Alto Los Cardales, Campana, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE · authorised programmeschool 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. At this school: IGCSE (ages 14-16). IGCSE means exams at around Year 10 or 11, the British counterpart of a lower secondary leaving certificate.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →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 pool
✓Sports hall
✓Laboratories
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
·Librarynot stated on the website
✓Catering
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Sports ground or field
Campus: Twelve hectares in Los Cardales, with a separate building for each stage. Shared facilities: a sports pitch, a sports hall, swimming pools, a dining room and multi-purpose halls. On the campus there is a stand selling uniform, a dining room, a kiosk and a bookshop, as well as a vegetable garden and laboratories for experiments. The school plans a second site, Hölters Nova, in the El Club gated community off Route 4 to Los Cardales: the project is in development, and the images on the site are marked as indicative.
Clubs and activities: Theatre · Dance · Orchestral band · Cookery · Vegetable garden · Digital education · Roller skating · Aerial silks · Ice hockey · Athletics · Sports training · Football · Volleyball · Handball · Basketball · Writing workshop · Poetry · Singing · Film · Art · Hölters Solidario · Outdoor living and camps · Language school: English, Italian, German
Summer camp: the school runs its own camp; whether it takes children from outside is not stated on the website
The summer camp runs on the campus itself, attached to the Hölters Cardales Club evening club, and takes children from a year and a half old to the sixth year; on the home page the same age range is given as from 18 months to 12 years. The activities are planned and run by teachers and physical education instructors, the days are spent outdoors, and the programme includes art, cookery, music and gardening workshops and games in the open air, with a swimming pool with lifeguards and a permanent medical service. Whether the school takes children from outside into the camp, it does not say.
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
·Number of teachersthe school does not say
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
The school has no teaching staff page. Named individually are the teachers of the evening club - roller skating, athletics, aerial silks, hockey, cookery and sports conditioning - and a primary school teacher who plays the accordion at the music festival. Named separately is the support team of psychologists, educational psychologists and teachers, which runs sessions for parents. The school does not state teacher numbers, their qualifications or the pupil-teacher ratio.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
·CCTVnot stated on the website
·Security staffnot stated on the website
·Access controlnot stated on the website
✓Nurse or medical room
✓Counsellor
·Child protection policynot stated on the website
·Staff trainingnot stated on the website
·Anti-bullying policynot stated on the website
The nurse works throughout the school day and is prepared for any medical incident; the support team is made up of psychologists and educational psychologists who deal with both emotional and academic difficulties. At the summer camp, lifeguards are on duty at the pool and a permanent medical service operates. The course in integral human education addresses grooming, cyberbullying and sexting directly with pupils, as well as nights out, substances and risky behaviour.
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