← Back to homeColégio Passo Certo Bilingual School - Growing
Cascavel, Brazil · est. 1999 · Private
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A private bilingual school in Cascavel: it opened in 1999 and joined Grupo Positivo in 2019. The Growing unit on Rua Acre takes children from the age of five and carries them through to the third year of Ensino Médio; in Ensino Fundamental thirty per cent of the programme is taught in English and in Ensino Médio twenty, and the school promises a limited number of pupils per class. It writes of itself: "O Passo Certo é a única escola de Cascavel oficialmente chancelada pela Cambridge International Education", and it prepares pupils for the Cambridge English examinations together with the Positivo language centre. The campus has a science laboratory and a maker laboratory, a common area, a playground, a sports area, a covered court, dance and judo rooms, and parks with a play mini-town; among its out-of-class activities the school names Football, volleyball, judo, dance, theatre, music, visual arts, languages and the NBA Basketball School programme. A dual diploma is awarded together with The Keystone School: senior pupils study the American programme online and receive two diplomas. The school does not publish the cost of tuiti, but it does set out the terms of its scholarship competition for the final year.
Key facts
Admits from
5 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Portuguese, English
About the fees The school does not state the cost of tuiti: there is no section on fees on the site at all, and to the question of admission the admissions page answers with the booking of a visit - "Na visita presencial, a família conhecerá a estrutura física e a proposta pedagógica da escola".
Admissions Admission begins with a visit: an appointment can be made through the site, in person at the chosen unit, or by telephone to the enrolment centre. During the visit the family is shown round the school and told about the programme, after which an application for enrolment can be submitted. For enrolment the school asks for the CPF and RG of the parents and of the child, a birth certificate, a vaccination record, proof of address and a record from the previous school. Separately, the school explains how study on an exchange is recognised: documents from a foreign school are needed with an apostille under the Hague Convention or with a consular visa.
Stages and year groups Grades Educação Infantil (5 anos) - 3ª Série do Ensino Médio. The unit's page lists the stages with class numbers: "Educação Infantil (5 anos)", "Ensino Fundamental - Anos Iniciais (1º ao 5º Ano)", "Ensino Fundamental - Anos Finais (6º ao 9º Ano)", "Ensino Médio (1ª a 3ª Série)". Lessons run from 8:45 to 17:30, and the school adds "Consulte a possibilidade para período estendido"; the unit itself is open from 7 in the morning to 7 in the evening. Of one of its distinguishing features the school writes "o número limitado de alunos por sala", but it does not state the number itself. Bilingual teaching takes half the day, and there is a separate "Clube Bilíngue" in the second shift.
Address Rua Acre, 1415, Country, Cascavel - PR, 85.813-390
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · authorised programmeThe school describes Cambridge in its own words: "O Passo Certo é a única escola de Cascavel oficialmente chancelada pela Cambridge International Educati, uma das instituições educacionais mais respeitadas do mundo. Esse título garante que nosso ensino bilíngue segue padrões internacionais de qualidade". No Cambridge stage is named at all, and the examination side is described separately: "Com o suporte do Centro de Línguas Positivo (CLIP), nossos alunos são preparados para realizar o Exame de Cambridge, uma certificação internacional de proficiência em inglês". In the Cambridge listing the link on this entry leads not to the school's site but to the site of the Positivo network, which the school joined in 2019.
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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 →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
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
·Librarynot stated on the website
·Cateringnot stated on the website
·School transportnot stated on the website
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Campus: "Contamos com espaços internos e externos, como Laboratório de Ciências, Laboratório Maker, Área de Convivência, Playground, Área Esportiva, Quadra Coberta, Sala de Dança e de Judô. O espaço inclui ainda parques com uma minicidade encantadora, que incentiva a natureza lúdica das crianças.". What the school does not give: it names no floor areas, no number of buildings and no number of rooms; the separate facilities page comes down to the caption "Dependências que oferecem conforto e transmitem segurança à comunidade escolar".
Clubs and activities: Football · Volleyball · Judo · Dance · Theatre · Music · Art · English · NBA Basketball School
Teaching staff
The school publishes neither the number of its teachers nor their qualifications.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
The school says nothing on its website about security, medical care or pupil support.
Reviews
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