The President of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, together with the Minister of Education, Vocational Training, Physical Activity and Sports, Poli Suárez, visited this Monday the land on which the future Center for Early Childhood and Primary Education (CEIP) will be built in San Bartolomé, on the island of Lanzarote.
This new center, the result of the collaboration agreement signed between the Government of the Canary Islands and the City Council of the municipality, responds to the need to address the population growth of the area and to offer quality public education with modern, accessible and sustainable facilities in the municipality. The action has a planned investment of 7,577,585.91 euros, financed by the autonomous Executive, and is integrated within the Strategic Plan for Educational Infrastructures 2024-2035, presented by the Ministry of Education last December.
During the visit, Clavijo highlighted “the importance of continuing to provide the Canary Islands with educational infrastructures in accordance with the growth and needs of its population” and stressed “the collaboration between institutions as an example of effective and committed management with public education.” Likewise, the president stressed that the new center “will not only allow to meet the current demand in the area, but is designed to anticipate the challenges of the future.”
The president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Oswaldo Betancort, the president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Oswaldo Betancort, has highlighted the successful inter-administrative coordination that is allowing to solve the needs of Lanzarote and La Graciosa in educational matters, as has happened during this mandate in Public Health projects. “The good harmony with the current autonomous Executive is speeding up the implementation of vital projects for the island society and bringing us up to date in terms of infrastructure.”
For his part, the mayor of San Bartolomé, Isidro Pérez, has stated that “today is an important day for San Bartolomé because it highlights the constant effort we have made from this City Council to carry out an essential project for our municipality: the new Alcalde Alexis Tejera Lemes infant and primary school. It has been a priority for this government team and we have worked tirelessly to speed up each necessary administrative and technical step."
In this sense, he continued “today we want to thank the visit of the President of the Government of the Canary Islands and the Minister of Education, Poli Suárez, who have been able to see in situ the land where this educational center so demanded by the citizens will be built, which we will execute from the City Council itself, which makes it a pioneering action: it is the second time that a local administration in the Canary Islands has directly assumed an educational infrastructure of this magnitude. Thanks to the funds of the Ministry and our predisposition, we will make this school a reality in this mandate.”
The CEIP in Lanzarote will be built on a plot of more than 12,000 square meters in the area known as Camino El Quintero. It will have eighteen educational units —twelve of Primary Education and six of Early Childhood Education—, with capacity for 450 students, in addition to common areas, library, specific classrooms, dining room with its own kitchen, and multipurpose areas for different pedagogical and cultural activities.
In addition, the project contemplates covered and outdoor sports facilities, including a wrestling ground, a school garden and an Enclave classroom. As in other actions recently promoted in terms of educational infrastructure by the Canary Islands Executive, the architectural design of the center incorporates criteria of energy efficiency, universal accessibility and sustainability, in addition to favoring the community use of its facilities outside school hours.
After the award of the project, and once the technical and administrative preparations necessary for its implementation have been completed, the start of the works will take place soon.
