Northlands School is a co-educational, non-denominational bilingual school with campuses in Olivos and Nordelta, Argentina.

History

Northlands School was founded in 1920 by two English women, Winifred May Brightman and Muriel Ivy Slater, who had come to Argentina as

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es. Northlands opened with 16 students, both boys and girls, but three years later it stopped taking boys. Subsequently, it became a leading girls' boarding and day school popular with the diplomatic corps. In the 1990s the school became co-educational. Miss Brightman was at the head of the School for forty years, until 1961, when she retired. She had been awarded the

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in 1953 for services to education. Since then, Northlands has been run by a

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: Northlands Asociación Civil de Beneficencia, from whose trustees the first Board of Governors was elected. The School grew, greatly supported by the

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es 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. As of 2016, the two branches of the school have two thousand pupils, 450 teachers and 150 other staff. The school is known for academic excellence. Its motto is “Friendship and Service”.

Notable alumnae

Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo y Peralta-Ramos, 15th Marchioness of Casa Fuerte, MP (born 15 October 1974 in Madrid) is a Spanish journalist, historian, and politician of the People's Party. She has served as Member of the Congress of Deputies sin ...

Mónica Cahen D'Anvers Mónica Cahen D'Anvers (born November 7, 1934) is an Argentine journalist and TV news host. The daughter of French aristocrat Comte Gilbert George Louis Cahen D'Anvers and María Elina Láinez Peralta de Alvear, she completed her studies at Camb ...

* Maria Gainza *

Mercedes Margalot María Mercedes "Mechi" Margalot (born June 28, 1975 in Buenos Aires) is a retired field hockey player from Argentina, who won the silver medal with the national field hockey team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Fou ...

Queen Máxima of the Netherlands Máxima (born Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti; 17 May 1971) is Queen of the Netherlands as the wife of King Willem-Alexander. Argentine by birth, she worked in marketing when she met Willem-Alexander, eldest son and heir apparent of Queen Beatrix, ...

María Eugenia Estenssoro María Eugenia Estenssoro (born 15 April 1958) is a Bolivian Argentine politician, journalist and activist for women's rights. She represented the city of Buenos Aires in the Argentine Senate from 2007 to 2013. Estenssoro was born in La Paz. H ...

* Sandra Mihanovich *

Anya Taylor-Joy Anya-Josephine Marie Taylor-Joy ( ; born 16 April 1996) is an actress. She has won several accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award. In 2021, she was featu ...

* Nieves Zuberbühler

Houses

*Keller (yellow): Helen Keller (named after) * Fry (green): Elizabeth Fry * Cavell (red): Edith Cavell * Nightingale (blue): Florence Nightingale

References

External links

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