The 302 students of the Los Abrigos school will resume their classes in person this Tuesday in the barracks of what was the Guaza Secondary Education Institute (IES). For this, the Department of Education of the Government of the Canary Islands It will transport the students in five buses from the center of origin, in the town of Granadilla de Abona, to the center located in the municipality of Arona.
After fifteen days of intense work, the families, center staff and Deputy Minister of Education of the Government of Canary IslandsJosé Manuel Cabrera, verified that The premises of the old IES Guaza are ready to receive the students of the Los Abrigos Early Childhood and Primary Education Center (CEIP), whose classes were suspended due to technical recommendation.
The transfer of students to Guaza is a measure adopted jointly by the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training, Physical Activity and Sports and the Granadilla de Abona City Councilwith the aim of minimizing distance teaching time, avoiding the separation of students (many of them siblings) by dividing them into different centers and to provide dining and transportation services normally.
The Los Abrigos school is inoperative due to deficiencies in the basement of one of the two buildings that make it up
It is worth remembering that Los Abrigos school suspended teaching activity last November 24 due to the deficiencies detected in the basement of one of its buildings (the so-called sanitary chamber), coinciding with a specific breakdown. A situation that does not put the safety of the property at risk, whose stability has not been compromised either, according to the Ministry of Education. However, these deficiencies have forced urgent works to be carried out, in order for the center to return to normal as soon as possible.
To resume teaching activity while these works are carried out, the Ministry of Education, which directs Poli Suarezcarried out the necessary actions for the adaptation and conditioning of the previous IES Guaza, built with modular classrooms, where the students will be relocated starting tomorrow. An exceptional measure while we proceed to correct, as soon as possible, the deficiencies detected at the Los Abrigos schoolmaintains the Canarian Government.
The transfer takes place on a provisional basis, while work is carried out to repair the affected area.
Thus, in these facilities that have more than 8,000 square meters (4,300 built), a shock cleaning intervention was carried out, painting the spaces that make up the facility, waterproofing the roof, sanitizing the plumbing and the adaptation of the dining room, among other issues.
These improvements will allow 302 students from CEIP Los Abrigos (79 infants and 223 primary students), in addition to teaching and non-teaching staff, to resume face-to-face teaching starting this Tuesday, thus meeting the demands and needs of the community school and facilitating the reconciliation of work and family life.
One of the actions that will be carried out in this regard will be the launch of a transportation service to transport all students from Los Abrigos to Guaza daily, and vice versa, until teachers and students can return to the classrooms normally.
