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IB Primary Years Programme · Ages 3–12

An IB international primary school founded by entrepreneurs to raise a new generation ofunicorn creators.

For parents who know education needs to change today for our children to have a future tomorrow.

The pitch

The best investment you can make is in your child's education.

The highest ROI you will ever see — which makes you the investor. So here is the deck.

01 “Where is the gap?”

School teaches what mattered a hundred years ago, the way it mattered then — for being hired.

It was built for an economic system that is being completely transformed right now, by AI. And nobody actually knows what professions will exist in ten years.

What parents ask us first — and what none of it predicts

  • Teacher qualifications 92% of parents
  • Curriculum and special programmes 74%
  • Safety and discipline 71%
  • Class size 58%
  • Who the other families are 42%
  • Clubs and extracurriculars 31%
  • Facilities and buildings 26%
  • Location and commute 25%

Every school on your shortlist scores well on all eight — that is exactly what makes them useless as a way to choose. Not one of these criteria has ever predicted whether a child will be able to build something. We answer them all, honestly, when we meet. We just won't pretend they are the reason to come.

Closed workshop · one day on the ocean

Unicornschool — your school for the future.

A community of entrepreneur parents, in a closed room. You meet the school's own methodological system, learn how entrepreneurial thinking is actually built in a child, and get every trend now reshaping education. Your child spends the same day inside the atmosphere of the school — and makes their first pitch.

1 dayOn the Atlantic
7–12Children's age
€800Per family
3 mealsBreakfast, lunch, dinner
By invitationAfter the screening

Bring the entrepreneur friends you would want your child to grow up around — we hold places for the families you name.

Values screening · eight questions, no middle option

Take the values screening and find out whether this school suits you.

Question 1 of 8

  1. Your child spends three weeks on a project and it fails, publicly, in front of an audience.

One hundred families

Our founder wants to meet every one of them.

We are in the centre of Lisbon, and there is room for exactly one hundred families — that is the whole school. Which is why this is a conversation and not a viewing: come and talk about something that matters, your child's education and the future they will actually walk into. One hour, with the founder, on an ordinary day. We select for shared values in both directions, so you leave knowing whether this is your school, and so do we.

Every request gets an answer within one working day — including the ones we turn down.