Students, teachers, family members and the educational community in general from the thirteen unitary schools of Lanzarote that are currently part of the Biosphere Schools project, shared their traditional annual end-of-year meeting in recent days. A meeting that was held in the Los Dolores picnic area in Mancha Blanca, thanks to the collaboration of the Tinajo City Council.
For the third consecutive year, the Cabildo of Lanzarote, through the Biosphere Reserve, organized this activity in collaboration with the city councils of Tinajo, Teguise, Yaiza and San Bartolomé, municipalities in which these educational centers are located, attached to the 'Biosphere Schools' project.
This year, a total of approximately 280 students between 3 and 11 years old have been part of this activity of the Biosphere Reserve, as well as their teachers (tutors and specialists) from the educational centers CEIP La Vegueta, CEIP El Cuchillo, CEIP Las Breñas, CEIP Mararía, CEIP Güime, CEIP Mª Auxiliadora, CEIP Soo, CEIP La Caleta de Famara, CEIP Los Valles, CEIP Tiagua, CEIP Muñique, CEIP Nazaret and CEIP Tao.
Generate a model of sustainable and committed school
The acting councilor of the Biosphere Reserve, Rafael Juan González Robayna, who participated in this third meeting together with the acting island director of Education, Mario Pérez, and the acting mayor of Tinajo, Jesús Machín, explained that "through this activity, a space for relationship and exchange of experiences between the different schools that have participated throughout the school year is favored, and at the same time a playful-educational meeting with the students and their families is encouraged." "Cooperative work has been the central axis around which this third meeting has revolved," he specified.
Similarly, they reported that in this day, in which the director of the Rural Schools Collective (CER) of San Bartolomé, Tinajo and Teguise, Sebastian Luján, was also present; the director of the Lanzarote Teachers Center (CEP), Eduardo Núñez; and the teacher of the CEIP Punta Hidalgo of Tenerife, representing the Biosphere Schools project of the Biosphere Reserve of Macizo de Anaga, the work and learning carried out throughout the course with teachers and families has been evaluated, as well as by the technicians of the city councils and public representatives of these administrations and the Cabildo of Lanzarote. On behalf of the first Island Institution, technicians from the areas of Citizen Participation and the Biosphere Reserve participated.
Finally, the acting councilor of the Cabildo wanted to highlight the "good participation and involvement in this project of all the families and teaching community that once again have turned to the educational project of Biosphere Schools and the motivation given by them to continue with the program next year."
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González Robayna also took the opportunity to "congratulate them for the result of the educational projects presented and experiences shared in this meeting", as well as thanked the entity Tágora-Estudios e Intervención Social, which has executed this project of the Biosphere Reserve during this last school year of the Biosphere Schools in Lanzarote, and the City Council of Tinajo, especially, for the transfer of the picnic area and collaborate in the organization of the activity.
From the Cabildo it is detailed that 'Biosphere Schools' is a project that has already become an educational and community intervention program, "which aims to implement actions in the schools of the island in order to generate a model of sustainable school committed to the social and environmental development of the community to which it belongs."
