Education offers new places for the first cycle of early childhood education in Lanzarote

The deadline for families to apply for one of these places will be from June 13 to 21, and those who obtain them may enroll their children from July 3 to 5.

May 28 2024 (14:40 WEST)
Updated in May 28 2024 (19:30 WEST)
Woman holding a baby in her arms
Woman holding a baby in her arms

The Government of the Canary Islands, through the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training, Physical Activity and Sports, will offer 498 new places for the first cycle of early childhood education.

The Ministry of Education will offer 498 new places for the first cycle of early childhood education in Gran Canaria, Tenerife, El Hierro, Lanzarote and La Palma. 

The application period will be from June 13 to 21, and is of an extraordinary nature.

In the first instance, 1,199 vacancies were already offered that were in operation during the 2023/2024 academic year, as well as those of the Elvira Vaquero (Valsequillo, Gran Canaria), Los Verodes (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Tenerife) and Concepción Rodríguez Artiles (Tías, Lanzarote) infant and primary education centers (CEIP), with the places now announced being newly created.

Financed with European Next Generation EU funds, the new places are distributed in thirty classrooms in 23 centers, including the CEIPs Playa Blanca (Yaiza) and Playa Honda (San Bartolomé).

The resolution of the General Directorate of Administration of Centers, School Enrollment and Complementary Services that dictates the specific instructions and convenes the extraordinary procedure for admission of students of the first cycle of early childhood education in educational centers dependent on the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training, Physical Activity and Sports, for the 2024-2025 academic year, can be consulted on the website of the Ministry and will soon be published in the Official Gazette of the Canary Islands (BOC).

After the period for applying for places (from June 13 to June 21), the period will open for applicants to submit the documentation of the scale, complete and accredit the necessary data and the alleged circumstances or conditions. It will be from June 13 to 24, with the provisional lists of admitted, not admitted and excluded being published on the 27th of the same month and, after a period for claims and waivers (from June 27 to July 1), the definitive ones, on July 3. Finally, the registration period and the application for the complementary school canteen service will be from July 3 to 5.

The regional Minister of Education, Poli Suárez, thus fulfills his commitment to open new early childhood education classrooms as the works are completed, to avoid what happened last year, when the previous government offered 1,196 places that were not ready in September. For that reason, on this occasion, it was decided to offer, in the first place, only those that were already in operation (although, finally, another three classrooms already mentioned in the ceip Elvira Vaquero, Los Verodes and Concepción Rodríguez Artiles were added to them). To these are now added these thirty new classrooms (498 places) and, in the first quarter of the 2024/2025 academic year, those that are being built and equipped will do so.

Courses and ages

In most cases, each center will open one of these new classrooms with eighteen places for students in the third year of early childhood education (two years). However, the CEIP Playa Honda (San Bartolomé) incorporates two classrooms (36 places) of that same course, while the María Jesús Pérez Morales (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) and the CEO Barlovento (Barlovento) and Juan XXIII (Tazacorte) will offer mixed classrooms with fourteen places for the second and third year (one and two years).

For its part, the CEIP Playa Blanca (Yaiza) will offer two classrooms and 26 places for the second year of early childhood education (one year) and the Tigaday (Frontera) will offer five classrooms, of which one (eight places) will be for the first (under one year); two (26 places), for the second (one year), and another two (36 places) will be for the third year of early childhood education (three years).

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