The Government of the Canary Islands visited this Friday the classrooms for two to three year olds that have been enabled in the CEIP Nieves Toledo in Arrecife. The capital's mayor, Yonathan de León, and the Councilor for Education, Abigail González, accompanied this morning the Minister of Education, Poli Suárez, to the visit he made to the new facilities.
The operation of these classrooms, together with those existing also in the Adolfo Topham school, had been announced last summer directly by the Canarian Minister to the capital's mayor, in an official visit to the Arrecife City Council.
In the visit made this noon to the Nieves Tolego school, located between the neighborhoods of El Lomo and Valterra, were present the Minister of Education, Vocational Training, Physical Activity, and Sports of the Government of the Canary Islands, Poli Suárez, the general director of Educational Infrastructures of the Canarian Executive, Iván González, the island director of Education in Lanzarote, Carmen Pellón, the Councilor for Education of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Ascensión Toledo, together with the capital's mayor, Yonathan de León, and the Councilor for Education, Abigail González.
All of them, guided by the director of the educational center, Claudia Santana, toured each of the classrooms aimed at the young students. The rest and diaper changing areas, the basic classroom furniture or the didactic material for each age group, are some of the most relevant aspects of the new classrooms, together with a children's recreation area.
It must be taken into account that, in these early ages, the design of physical spaces and the choice of the elements that configure them are very important, given the psycho-evolutionary characteristics of children and the need to create safe physical and environmental environments, without risks, that favor child development in all its dimensions.
The mayor of Arrecife, Yonathan de León, who has thanked the interest and direct involvement of the Canarian Minister of Education, recalled that as "he told us in his first official visit to the municipality of Arrecife, in the summer of last year, first to a non-capital island - after being appointed Minister - that it would be in January 2024 when these classrooms that we are visiting today will come into operation. And we see that he has fulfilled his direct commitment to the city of Arrecife and the City Council".
Yonathan de León stated "that if the previous Minister, and her PSOE team, had been more diligent, those classrooms would have been in operation since last September. The PSOE has in its brand to reproach others for what is solely the result of the inability and mismanagement with the schooling of these students, which they left when they left the government of the Canary Islands during the previous term".
For the capital's head of Education, Abigail González, "we are finally responding to one of the most important demands that we had in our municipality in educational matters. This is an example that now there is a real commitment from the Government of the Canary Islands with Arrecife and that the unfulfilled promises of those who during the previous term authorized the registrations without even having awarded the works so that the classrooms were ready in September have finally been corrected".
In addition to the two to three year old students of the CEIP Nieves Toledo, also those enrolled in the CEIP Adolfo Topham will be able to attend classes this January 15 joining the students enrolled in the CEO Argana who started the course last September.