Semillitas de Saber
We opened our doors with an innovative, creative and playful approach, offering preschool.
OUR STORY
We started with a seed.
We started with a seed.
Today we are a forest.
In 1997 we opened with a handful of children and a simple idea: that learning should feel like play. Almost three decades later we are just as convinced, now in two languages and all the way to eleventh grade.
FROM 1997 TO TODAY
Every stage made us the school we are.
The start of a new era: Gimnasio Superior Nuevos Andes
The families' trust consolidated a new educational vision: the project evolved, we grew into elementary and Gimnasio Superior Nuevos Andes was born — a community focused on whole-person formation and the beginning of a stage of growth that has not stopped.
High school and bilingualism
We expanded to middle and high school, and earned our recognition as a bilingual school.
We reached the vision we set
We set out to be a bilingual school with national and international recognition. Today we are one of the 31 Cambridge schools in the country, our students get certified in English and travel to London and Paris. Goal met.
On to what comes next
We are advancing our ICONTEC quality certification and we have already written the vision that will move us to 2035.
Institutional horizon
We know where we are going.
Who we are, where we are heading, and what we have already achieved.
Mission
Shaping people, not just students.
We are a certified national bilingual institution that shapes people through a pedagogical process that fully develops competencies, skills and values. We form leaders with a critical and investigative spirit, with English as a foreign language and technology as a learning tool, able to work as a team and make autonomous, fair and responsible decisions.
Vision 2035
A benchmark for bilingual education with purpose.
By 2035 we will be a national and international reference in bilingual education with purpose: a community where every student graduates with Cambridge C1 certification, outstanding ICFES results and the conviction that their leadership transforms their surroundings.
2026 vision achieved
We reached the vision we set for 2026: today we are a bilingual school with national recognition. So we set a new one.
Quality policy
Continuous improvement as a way of working.
We prepare leaders, builders of a new generation. We do it with modern facilities, a skilled team and continuous improvement as our way of working.
HOW WE TEACH
We are not interested in memorizing.
We are not interested in memorizing.
We are interested in understanding.
Our method has two schools of thought that complement each other: Teaching for Understanding, which asks them to explain, apply and create with what they learn, and the Reggio Emilia philosophy in preschool, where play, art and questions are the method.
Teaching for Understanding
Knowing is not enough. You have to explain it, apply it and create something new with it.
Reggio Emilia philosophy
In preschool the classroom is a third teacher: everything invites you to explore and ask.
Four promises we review every single day.
01
Happy human beings
Who show their values in every decision.
02
Certified C1 English
By graduation, backed by Cambridge.
03
Academic excellence
With an A+ in the ICFES as our stated goal.
04
Leaders who build
A new generation for the country.
OUR PILLARS
Six pillars that are lived, not recited.
Trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship. We teach them, we apply them, we advocate for them and, above all, we model them.
Trustworthiness
Loyalty, honesty and the moral courage to do what is right.
Respect
The golden rule, tolerance and consideration for others.
Responsibility
Perseverance, self-control and self-discipline.
Fairness
Sharing, playing fair and keeping an open mind.
Caring
Kindness, compassion, gratitude and forgiveness.
Citizenship
Taking part in the community and caring for what is shared.
Our principles: respect for human dignity, democratic participation, equity and freedom.
WHO WALKS BESIDE THEM
Behind every achievement there is someone who believed first.
General Direction
Principal
Vice Principal
And the whole team behind every single day.
Every area has its own people, even if we do not name them here.
Bilingualism Coordination
Academic Coordination
Student Well-being
Psychology Team
Academic Office
Teachers
Nursing
Restaurant and kitchen
School Transport
Facilities
Creative team
Services
Everything that happens around the classroom.
A school is not just classroom hours. This is what holds up your child's day, from the first route to the last bell.
Restaurant
A balanced, supervised lunch, every single day.
School shop
Snacks and supplies at hand, without leaving school.
Packed lunch
If you would rather send it from home, that works too.
School transport
Our own routes. At the session we tell you if we cover your area.
Nursing
Care at school when something happens. And something always happens.
School guidance
A team that looks after what a report card never shows.
Psychology
Professional support inside the school, no need to look outside.
Parents school
Because raising kids has no manual either. Training for the family.
PIAR support
An individual plan of reasonable adjustments for whoever needs it.
The restaurant menu is published every month so you know what your child is having for lunch.
Our campuses
Three campuses, one school.
Each stage has its own building, its own rhythm and its own way of welcoming our students.
Main campus
Main Building
Preschool campus
Gray Building
High school campus
High School Building
Castilla, Kennedy, Bogotá.
Partners
We do not walk alone
We work with institutions and platforms that back what happens in the classroom: international certification, assessment, reading, bilingualism and community.
LOOKING AHEAD
We keep building what comes next.
We keep building a learning experience ready for the challenges ahead. Our evolution combines new spaces, technology, innovation and an institutional vision that puts every student at the center.
Project in progress
2027 outlook
A new space to keep growing
Our campus is evolving to create more modern, functional spaces, connected to what our community needs. This transformation will strengthen the places for learning, gathering, creativity and well-being that will welcome the next generations of Nuevos Andes.
Andes OS
The digital ecosystem of Nuevos Andes. A new platform designed to connect, organize and simplify the experience of parents, students, teachers and staff.
One place to live and manage the Nuevos Andes experience.
