The Department of Education of the Government of the Canary Islands This coming January, 29 new classrooms will open for students from two to three years old, which will mean a total of 522 places, as announced by the person in charge of the area, Poli Suárez. Of the total of these classrooms, 19 (342 places) will come into operation on the 8th, the first school day of 2024, while the remaining 10 (180 places) will do so a week later, on January 15.
Specifically, on the 8th it is planned that open classrooms in Lanzarote (1), Fuerteventura (3), Gran Canaria (5) and Tenerife (10).
In the island of volcanoesthe Early Childhood and Primary Education Center (CEIP) White beachin Yaizaand three others will do so in Fuerteventura: those of the CEIP Antoñito El Farero, in The olive; Calm Coastin Birdand Puerto Cabras, in Puerto del Rosario.
For its part, Gran Canaria will have five new classrooms for two to three years in the CEIP José Sánchez and Sánchez (Agaete), Manolo Ortega (Arucas), Mayor Diego Trujillo Rodríguez (Galdar), Nicolás Aguiar Jiménez (Santa María de Guía) and Hilda Zudán (Telde). As for the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the ten new classrooms that will open on the 8th are concentrated in Tenerife, specifically, in the CEIP Los Cristianos (Arona); Punta Larga (Candelaria); Julián Zafra Moreno (Güímar); Emeterio Gutiérrez Albelo-Agua García and Maximiliano Gil Melián (Tacoronte), Clorinda Salazar (San Cristobal de La Laguna), Los Verodes (Santa Cruz de Tenerife) and Granadilla de Abona, in the town of the same name, as well as in the Compulsory Education Centers (CEO) Bethencourt and Molina and Príncipe Felipe, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and La Victory, respectively.
For the following week, starting on January 15, another ten classrooms are scheduled to open in Fuerteventura (1), Gran Canaria (6) and Lanzarote (3). These are those of the CEIP La Lajitain the Majorero municipality of Pájara, and those of the CEIP of Gran Canaria Timplista José Antonio Ramos (The Gran Canarian palms), Professor Rafael Gómez Santos (Saint Matthew), Los Vélez Mountain (Agüimes), Doctor Juan Espino Sánchez (Ingenuity), Las Dunas and Camino de La Madera (both in San Bartolome de Tirajana), as well as those of the CEIP Adolfo Tophan and Nieves Toledo, in Reefand Ajei, in San Bartolome.
Likewise, to all of them are also added the two classrooms that came into operation on December 11 in the municipalities of The Village of San Nicolás (Gran Canaria) and Tinajo (Lanzarote), in the CEIPs of La Ladera and Guiguan, respectively, with a total of 36 places. In short, in the coming weeks, the number of new places open in the 2023/2024 academic year for the first cycle of Early Childhood Education (2-3 years) will increase by Canary Islands to 558 distributed in 31 classrooms.
