Northlands School
Encyclopedia
Northlands School is a co-educational, non-denominational bilingual school in Olivos, Buenos Aires
, Argentina
. Its mission is "to educate young people to the full extent of their individual potential, so that after completing their Schooling they will feel capable of pursuing their life choice with responsibility, commitment, satisfaction and joy", and for its students to "become individuals whose integrity and moral values will lead them to choose freely what is right."
. Northlands opened its doors on April 1 of that year to 16 students (both boys and girls), but three years later, it stopped receiving boys. The School motto is “Friendship and Service”.
Miss Brightman was at the head of the School for forty years, until 1961, when she retired. Since then, Northlands has been a non-profit association
, Northlands Asociación Civil de Beneficencia, from whose trustees the first Board of Governors was elected.
The School grew, greatly supported by the Headmistresses who followed the founders. The main buildings at school have been named after them: Brightman, Slater, Wallace and Parczewski, in memory of the work they carried out at Northlands.
Buenos Aires Province
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, Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
. Its mission is "to educate young people to the full extent of their individual potential, so that after completing their Schooling they will feel capable of pursuing their life choice with responsibility, commitment, satisfaction and joy", and for its students to "become individuals whose integrity and moral values will lead them to choose freely what is right."
History
Northlands School was founded in 1920 by two English women, Winifred M. Brightman and Muriel Ivy Slater. It was located in Olivos, to the North of the Greater Buenos AiresGreater Buenos Aires
Greater Buenos Aires is the generic denomination to refer to the megalopolis comprising the autonomous city of Buenos Aires and the conurbation around it, over the province of Buenos Aires—namely the adjacent 24 partidos or municipalities—which nonetheless do not constitute a single administrative...
. Northlands opened its doors on April 1 of that year to 16 students (both boys and girls), but three years later, it stopped receiving boys. The School motto is “Friendship and Service”.
Miss Brightman was at the head of the School for forty years, until 1961, when she retired. Since then, Northlands has been a non-profit association
Non-profit organization
Nonprofit organization is neither a legal nor technical definition but generally refers to an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends...
, Northlands Asociación Civil de Beneficencia, from whose trustees the first Board of Governors was elected.
The School grew, greatly supported by the Headmistresses who followed the founders. The main buildings at school have been named after them: Brightman, Slater, Wallace and Parczewski, in memory of the work they carried out at Northlands.