Family atmosphere
Individual attention, teachers who know every child by name, and by heart.
1950 — 2025 · 75 years75 years
75 years
of making school.
Kindergarten (Preschool) and Primary School · Estrela, Lisbon
Since 1950, O Lar da Criança has welcomed children in Lisbon. More than a school — a family where each child learns to read, to write, and above all, to be.
- 75
- years of education
- 3 generations
- of families
- 8:30 – 19:00
- extended hours
What moves usEducating with rigour.
Educating with rigour.
Nurturing with care.
Learning to be
More than content: questions, experiences and the confidence to grow.
Living tradition
Seventy-five years of history, renewed with every new generation.
LevelsFrom the first pencil
From the first pencil
to the last reading.
We accompany each child from pre-school to the end of Primary School, with a stable and experienced team that grows with them.
Pre-school
Learning through play.
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Reading, writing, thinking — and learning to think for yourself.
Learn moreExtracurricular
Music, cooking, arts, sport and after-school care in a safe environment.
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1950 — TodayFor 75 years
For 75 years
a "home of hope and love".
Founded in 1950 by Berta Ávila de Melo with a simple idea — a school that would be a home — O Lar da Criança has crossed generations without losing what has always defined it: care, rigour and respect for every child. Since the 1990s, it has been led by Rita Ávila de Melo.
About the school
Voices of former students
"It was a second home, where I felt as comfortable as in my own. There was a sense of family warmth — we were a family."
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, former student and President of Portugal
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