← Back to homeColégio Positivo - Boa Vista
Curitiba, Brazil · est. 2019 · Private
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Colégio Positivo - Boa Vista, in the Boa Vista district of Curitiba, takes children from the age of one to the end of school: Educação Infantil, the earlier and the later years of Ensino Fundamental and the first two years of Ensino Médio, while the third year is taught in the same building by the network's preparatory course. Thirty per cent of subjects in the half-day are taught in English, and from the fifth year pupils sit language exams under the Cambridge International mark. The campus has a large sports complex with dance, gymnastics and judo halls, a library of almost five thousand titles and more than eight thousand volumes, a cookery studio, a science laboratory, a play room for the youngest children and a nappy-changing room. Entry to the grounds is through turnstiles with facial recogniti, and the canteen menu is drawn up with a dietician, with separate food kept for children with dietary restrictions. After lessons the network offers rhythmic gymnastics, theatre, music classes, dance, capoeira, swimming and futsal. The network does not publish its fees: the amount is given at a meeting at the school itself, and the site carries no list of the universities its leavers go on to - the "Aprovações" section opens empty.
Key facts
Admits from
1 year · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Portuguese, English
About the fees The network names neither an annual nor a monthly fee on the site, and publishes no price table. The order is this: an applicati, a visit to the school and a conversation with the admissions team, after which the contract is drawn up in the closed "Portal de Matrícula"; the only financial detail on the site is the payment methods - "boleto, cartão ou PIX". The network's scholarship competition this year is run for another unit: "A unidade participante deste ano é o Colégio Positivo - Jardim Ambiental".
Admissions The network describes no selection at admissi. The order is this: an approach to the school in person or by the central enrolment telephone 0800-721-1535, a visit with a tour of the campus in the company of a member of staff, then an application in the "Portal de Matrícula", the choice of a payment method and the signing of a contract; the documents required are the CPF and RG of the child and of the parents, a birth certificate, a vaccination record, proof of address and a report from the previous school.
Stages and year groups Grades Educação Infantil (1 a 5 anos) - 3ª Série do Ensino Médio. The unit lists its stages as follows: "Educação Infantil (1 a 5 anos)", "Ensino Fundamental - Anos Iniciais (1º ao 5º Ano)", "Ensino Fundamental - Anos Finais (6º ao 9º Ano)", "Ensino Médio (1ª e 2ª Série) e Curso Positivo (3ª Série)". The third year of Ensino Médio is not taught by the school itself: "A 3ª Série do Ensino Médio é oferecida pelo Curso Positivo, dentro das dependências do Colégio Positivo - Boa Vista".
Address Rua Carlos de Campos, 1090, Boa Vista, Curitiba-PR, CEP 82.560-430
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · authorised programmeGrupo Positivo · school is part of the networkThe Cambridge school register gives the line "Colegio Positivo Boa Vista | Curitiba, Brazil | No". The school for its part writes: "os estudantes contam com a chancela da Cambridge International, que garante simulados e certificações reconhecidas mundialmente a partir do 5º ano", and separately: "Alunos do 5º Ano podem prestar o exame de proficiência de Cambridge", and the same of the ninth year. It names no Cambridge stage by name, and what it describes are language exams rather than a Cambridge programme. Cambridge, IGCSE and Checkpoint appear nowhere else on the network's site.
school 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.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →Grupo Positivoschool network
A Brazilian group of companies, founded in 1972. Its divisions: Colégio Positivo, Curso Positivo, Editora Aprende Brasil, Posigraf, Positivo Tecnologia, Instituto Positivo and the central administration. The school division shows 11 sites in four cities: seven in Curitiba, including Positivo International School, two in Joinville, one each in Londrina and Ponta Grossa. The site gives no combined figures for the group.
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
✓Laboratories
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
✓Library
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: The unit describes its rooms one by one: a catering area with a canteen and a snack bar, where the menu is drawn up with a dietician and separate food is kept for children with dietary restrictions; indoor and outdoor social areas and a green area for lessons in the open air; a library holding "4.873 títulos e 8.316 volumes"; a play room for the youngest children; a sports complex with dance, gymnastics and judo halls; a cookery studio for lessons on nutriti, mathematics and English; turnstiles with facial recognition at the entrance; a nappy-changing room with changing supplies; a science laboratory. The school also names: dance studio.
Clubs and activities: Rhythmic gymnastics · Theatre · Music lessons · Dance · Capoeira · Swimming · Futsal · Judo
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 unit names only its director - Izabella Milléo Bini. The network publishes no teaching staff by name, no number of teachers and no pupil-teacher ratio. On qualifications it says two things: "Temos um projeto interno com cursos livres, formações obrigatórias e grupos de estudos para o desenvolvimento contínuo de nossos professores" and, of the English programme, "O CLiP é uma solução pedagógica de inglês comunicativo, com materiais didáticos importados e professores certificados". The network's own centre for continuing teacher development is described separately. Compulsory courses and study groups for teachers; certified teachers on the English programme.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
·CCTVnot stated on the website
·Security staffnot stated on the website
✓Access controlEntry to the grounds is through turnstiles with facial recogniti: "Visando elevar os padrões de segurança na entrada dos estudantes, nossas catracas possuem reconhecimento facial. Essa tecnologia inovadora dispensa o uso de crachás, identificando com alta precisão os alunos autorizados".
·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 group has a corporate code of conduct and an open reporting channel, but these are documents about business ethics rather than about child protecti.
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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.
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