About 1400 children celebrate Canary Islands Day in Tías

About 1400 boys and girls from the municipality of Tías have experienced the events for Canary Islands Day in a special way this Tuesday. The students of the CEIP La Asomada Mácher, CEIP Alcalde Rafael Cedrés, in the center of Tías, and the CEIP Concepción Rodríguez Artiles, in Puerto del Carmen, have joined together with their teachers and families to commemorate Canary Islands Day, sharing a day full of typicality and traditions in the classrooms.

The mayor of Tías, Pancho Hernández, the deputy mayor and Councilor for Culture, Amado Jesús Vizcaíno, and the Councilor for Education, Aroa Pérez, attended the three public schools in the municipality on the morning of this Tuesday, the eve of Canary Islands Day, where the Educational Community carried out tasks related to the customs and traditions of the Islands and several exhibitions with the theme of Canarian culture.

The students of the La Asomada Mácher school, who are innovating in this current academic year 2017/2018 with the Amara Berri system, shared in their classrooms the typical dishes and pastries of the islands that the students' families and their teachers specially prepared for this special day among the children.

The Tías school, Alcalde Rafael Cedrés, which commemorates its 40 years of educational life during this year 2018, programmed the celebration in the Tías Wrestling Ground Ulpiano Rodríguez Pérez, whose stands were filled with parents of students to follow the joyful performances and dances of their children in a wrestling ground converted into a ''tagoror'.

Meanwhile, the students of the CEIP Concepción Rodríguez Artiles, in La Tiñosa, experienced a cheerful and musical morning in the covered area of the sports courts inside the school where the party atmosphere flooded this multicultural public school in the main tourist area of the Island, Puerto del Carmen, for a few hours.

During this month of May, the approximately 1400 Infant and Primary school students who study in the three public infant and primary schools located in the municipality of Tías have participated in workshops, cultural and educational activities that the Tías City Council has directly transferred to the classrooms, in common agreement with the Educational Community of each school. The action aims to promote the roots and traditions of the Canary Islands in a municipality where up to 74 different nationalities coexist, highlighted the first mayor of Tías, Pancho Hernández, and the Councilor for Culture, Amado Jesús Vizcaíno in a press conference held this Tuesday at the Consistory to publicize the municipal events for Canary Islands Day that will take place, mainly, this coming weekend in La Tiñosa.