What’s going on at NORTHLANDS?

Our Y6 students are working on the Portrait unit. This unit is covered every year because: It allows them to explore their identity and express themselves through art. It encourages technical skills such as observation, drawing, and painting. It helps children to understand and express emotions, both their own and those of others. It teaches [...]

What a colourful celebration! We marked Diversity Day with a spectacular music show featuring rhythms and colours from all over Latin America. A warm thank you to Flores y Barriletes for their beautiful performance. ¡Qué celebración tan colorida! Conmemoramos el Día de la Diversidad con un espectacular espectáculo musical que incluyó ritmos y colores de [...]

Last Friday, our Y3 students had the chance to visit the Museum of Natural Sciences, this time in connection with UOI 4 "Living Together." But don’t worry! The animals there don’t come to life… at least not during the day! So it was a safe environment for our students, who explored various rooms filled with [...]

Our learning journey This week, Y1 opened the Student Led Conferences season with a wonderful event: they showed their parents their leading role in their learning journeys through a wonderful portfolio showcasing their progress along this year.  They talked to parents about their work, taking advantage of this opportunity to put metacognition skills in action [...]

Let's explore the Olivos Kindergarten Art Fair, a space where our young artists become Artivists: citizens who, through art, seek to express and make visible their concerns and inspirations. Here, art is a tool for raising awareness, with works that emerge from contemporary practices such as conceptual art, video art and installations. Most of the [...]

Paula Leporati (ON 1981), leader of YoRio San Isidro and San Fernando, shared an activity this week with a group of kindergarten children from Olivos, who conducted research on the issue of waste accumulation, particularly plastics in the oceans. Paula told them about the river clean-ups and they showed her the artwork they had created [...]

On the last day of Arts Week, the Primary School Choir delivered an inspiring performance that delighted the kindergarten children. With a selection of energetic songs, the primary students managed to capture the attention of the little ones, who not only enjoyed the music but also joined in with applause and smiles. The performance was [...]

Within the framework of the kindergarten art fair, the installation resulting from the project carried out by the secondary students for the CAS area (IB program objective) was presented. This process consisted of three days in which families were invited to share an artistic space with their children with the purpose of transmitting an overcoming [...]