As announced last Friday by the general director of Centers, Infrastructure and Educational Promotion of the Government of the Canary Islands, Laly González, this week the removal of the last two modules that made up the old CEIP La Destila has been carried out until the inauguration of the new center. The structures, which are owned by the Ministry of Education, housed four classrooms and "will not be reused" according to the regional Executive.
The Ministry of Education thus considers "totally" closed a stage of this school in the capital of Lanzarote, which has, in return, the "most modern of the public educational buildings in the Canary Islands".
The general director recently visited both the old and new facilities, and "expressed her satisfaction with the immense qualitative leap offered to the families of Arrecife".
"I would love all public schools in the Canary Islands to be like the new CEIP La Destila," she said during her tour. "Without a doubt, the entire educational community is in luck, we have gone from one extreme to another," said Laly González, who expressed her confidence in being able to continue along the same path with several centers that are currently underway in various parts of the Canary Islands.
Increase in the number of students
According to information from Education, since the inauguration of the new building, the number of girls and boys enrolled in CEIP La Destila has been able to grow from 251 last year to 311 this year and it is expected that next year up to 350 students will study there, distributed in about 16 groups.
Thus, "in two years, about 100 more families will have enrolled their sons and daughters in the heart of the capital and in first-class facilities that have also seen their capacity increased," say from the Government of the Canary Islands.
Dining service
With respect to the new building, the general director was able to verify in situ that the finishes that were pending at the time of the center's opening have also been completed, so that the kitchen is practically "ready to enter service".
In this regard, it is recalled that the project foresaw an indirect management dining room (through catering), but that it was finally decided to incorporate its own kitchen. This required the installation of gas and the provision of the necessary equipment to prepare the menus. As La Voz has already reported, the kitchen already has almost all the machinery and the intention of the general directorate is to offer the dining service to interested students from the month of April, without waiting for the next course.