[1] Northlands School was founded in 1920 by two English women, Winifred May Brightman and Muriel Ivy Slater, who had come to Argentina as governesses.
[2] Subsequently, it became a leading girls' boarding and day school popular with the diplomatic corps.
[1] Miss Brightman was at the head of the School for forty years, until 1961, when she retired.
[1] 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.