A road of opportunities

In this world where dramatic change is the order of the day, where paradigms shift permanently, where we are faced with new problems to deal with on a daily basis, the best legacy to our students is an education that enables them to confront and resolve the new and unexpected.

We define our proposal as an all-embracing, bilingual education from multiple perspectives.

It is all embracing because we think in terms of the education of a person as a whole, made up of a mind, a body and a soul.

It is bilingual because of our British roots and because English is the language of instruction for at least fifty percent of our curriculum content. In this way, our students acquire a level of fluency that allows them to sit for international exams at a First Language level.

Our students’ education is approached from multiple perspectives, because we offer them the opportunity to look at reality from different standpoints, with different and broad outlooks, always respecting the opinions of others.

We make our proposal concrete through:

The Development of the Areas of Knowledge refers to acquiring general culture, the specific contents of the different subjects and, fundamentally, developing thinking skills and a capacity for meta-cognition; in other words, learning and reflecting upon how we learn, which is the core of our curriculum and is Northlands’ great value added.

Personal and Social Development has the great universal ethic and moral values as .guideline, with Integrity as the central one. To put them into action, we have designed a Personal and Social Education (PSE) Programme within the framework of those values and the attitudes and attributes of the IB community profile, which we have incorporated as it coincides with our educational principles.

Physical Development prioritizes the formative process as well as competitive performance, instilling values such as effort, commitment, responsibility and respect. It focuses on improving health, awareness of the importance of taking care of our body, nutrition, life quality and the contact with nature through physical and sports activities.

These three great areas are intertwined with one another, with continuous overlapping because, as persons, we are ONE.

To make our proposal happen we need to count on open-minded, versatile, flexible teachers, capable of having a global view of the organization, and of becoming guides for our students, so that the latter may eventually graduate with the necessary tools to become agents of change.

We are sure this is the road to the achievement of our Mission statement.

Susan Magenta, Principal