SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 3 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The President of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, and the Minister of Education, Manuela Armas, visited today Monday the new facilities of the Secondary Education Institute (IES) Parque La Reina, in the Tenerife municipality of Arona, which will replace the IES Guaza and which has involved an investment of 7.88 million euros.
The event was also attended by the General Director of Centers, Infrastructures and Educational Promotion, Laly González; the mayor of Arona, José Julián Mena; the second vice president of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Berta Pérez; the director of IES Guaza, Goreti Ramos; the vice director, Luz Marina Lorenzo Trujillo, and the head of Studies, María Ramos Pérez, among other representatives of the center.
In statements to the media, the president of the Canary Islands pointed out that whenever completed works are visited, in this case an IES, “it is cause for joy, but these are especially so because it has been a very complex and winding process, with difficulties administrative. Now the use of barracks for 20 years is finished and put an end to, which will cease to exist from the next academic year”.
Torres stressed the modernity of the facilities and the fact that they occupy the largest area of any other institute in the entire Canary Islands, with more than 13,000 square meters and with a “model finish”. This –he added– makes me happy for education on the islands and, especially, in the south of Tenerife, above all for the struggle of the teaching team, of the mothers, fathers and of the students, who will now fill this center of happiness while they continue with their personal formation. It has been an investment well made because this has ended well and it is reflected in the faces that the representatives of the educational community have shown today,” said the head of the regional government.
The Minister of Education assured that it is a “very important day for the entire educational community” in this area “because the students had been in those barracks for so many years and it was a fair claim that, finally, ends with a magnificent center , with all the modernity that it can have and to start from September. It was about time”, he stressed.
The mayor of Arona also remarked that this center brings dignity to education in the area by making the barracks disappear and now housing “more than 700 students”. “I started by laying the first stone of this infrastructure and today I share this with everyone, among others with the president of the Canary Islands, who has given everything so that these facilities are as they are now: decent for the students and future generations,” he added. he.
A TOTAL OF 31 UNITS.
This center occupies a plot of 13,120 square meters and has a constructed area of 9,362. Initially it was conceived for 22 units, but, given the growth of the population in the area with school age warned by the School Service, in July 2022 a modification was approved to create nine additional units, up to a total of 31. It is given response to projected needs.
With a capacity for 800 school seats, it will have about 740 students from the 2023-24 academic year. The new infrastructure will allow the removal of about thirty modular classrooms from IES Guaza.
The Government of the Canary Islands awaits the communication of the completion of the works by the winning company (Proyecon Galicia, SA) to continue the procedures that will lead to the reception of the center.
These facilities consist of a three-story building that is completed, taking advantage of the unevenness of the terrain, with a semi-basement with direct access from the street that serves as a car park. In addition, both the assembly hall and the covered pavilion, with its toilets, have been located on the side of the street, so that they have direct access from the outside without the need to enter the school grounds, which allows their use in extracurricular hours.
In total, the center has 53 classrooms, including computer, music and plastic spaces, as well as a library, a technology workshop, laboratories, a language classroom, administration areas and common services, with a cafeteria, storage room, changing rooms. non-teaching staff, supply and cleaning rooms, among others. It also has a covered pavilion, an assembly hall, a wrestling arena, an orchard and landscaped areas, parking lots and playgrounds.
