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Moreno, Argentina · Private
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A bilingual full-day school in Francisco Álvarez, on the western edge of Moreno: Spanish and English run side by side, and in the senior years French is added. English begins at the age of two with songs, and at five reading and writing are added, so that a child leaves the pre-school stage literate in two languages. The stages run in sequence - Kinder II-V, six years of primary school and six years of secondary with a leaning towards the humanities and social sciences; in secondary school pupils sit seven IGCSE subjects of the University of Cambridge, and since 2009 AS Level as well. The grounds are spacious and described in detail: a library named after Borges with some five thousand books, a laboratory with four work benches and microscopes, a computer centre of 50 square metres, pitches for rugby, football and hockey, a 310-metre athletics track with six lanes, an indoor sports hall of 600 square metres, separate play parks for the younger and the older pre-schoolers, and a dining hall of 400 square metres where the youngest are served by waiters while the older pupils help themselves. Sport is put to the front here: hockey, rugby, athletics, football and volleyball, with basketball and five-a-side football indoors in winter, a rowing team, inter-school tournaments and internal Interhouses, while drama is taught in English as a subject of its own. The school does not publish its tuition fees, its number of pupils, its teaching staff or a list of the universities its leavers go to; of support services it names only the careers guidance department and work placements at companies.
Key facts
Programmes
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level
Admits from
2 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
Spanish, English
About the fees The school names no fees: it has no section on cost, contributions or discounts, and its own web address does not open at present.
Stages and year groups Grades Kinder II - 6.º año de la Escuela Secundaria. Three stages in sequence and without gaps. Pre-school - "Perfil del niño de 2 a 5 años", groups Kinder II-V, contact with English through songs from the age of two, and from five reading and writing in the second language, plus workshops in the second shift ("Talleres pedagógicos a contraturno") and an annual Concert in English. Primary - "Perfil del niño de 6 a 11 años", two cycles. Secondary - "Perfil del joven de 12 a 17 años", six years, "Modalidad: Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales", with French as a third language: "una tercera lengua: Francés". The school declares no plans for expansi.
Address Carola Lorenzini y Victor Hugo, (1746) Francisco Álvarez, Moreno, Pcia. de Buenos Aires
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · IGCSE, A-Level · 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), A-Level (ages 16-18). IGCSE means exams at around Year 10 or 11, the British counterpart of a lower secondary leaving certificate. A-Level is the senior years, and their results are what British and many other universities admit on.
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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: A single site in Francisco Álvarez. The school lists: a library, a laboratory, a computer centre, a sports field, a nursery play area and a dining hall. The library is named after Jorge Luis Borges and holds around 5,000 books sorted by secti. The laboratory has four work benches, four microscopes at 500x magnificati, eight dissection kits, electronic scales and a life-size skelet. The computer centre covers 50 square metres, with plenty of natural light from the windows, heating and ventilati. The sports field has pitches for rugby, football and hockey on well-kept grass and a 310-metre athletics track with six lanes, plus an indoor sports hall of 600 square metres. The pre-schoolers have two separate parks: a soft play area for Kinder II and III, and wooden swings, slides and playhouses for Kinder IV and V. The dining hall is a spacious room of 400 square metres, divided into zones, with large windows, bright and fitted with a sound system; pupils up to year 3 are served by waiters, and the rest help themselves. The school names no swimming pool, assembly hall or medical room.
Clubs and activities: Ice hockey · Rugby · Athletics · Football · Volleyball · Basketball · Mini-football · Rowing · Drama in English · Afternoon workshops · Interhouses
Teaching staff
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Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
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