Tag Archive for school

Students’ Power Protest

Pupils at the IES Jose Martin Recuerda (secondary-education school) in Motril are protesting about the lack of electricity supply to their classrooms. In fact, the school has had no electricity since the beginning of the new term in September.

New Nursery Term Time

The children have all now returned to school, while for some this is their first educational experience. The new term started in the children’s community centres in both Almunecar and La Herradura with a total of 186 new students, aged from zero to three years, spread across eleven classes and half a dozen centres, according to the head of Social Welfare, Maria del Carmen Reinoso.

Religion, Schooling and Divorce

(Regional News) A provincial law court in Almeria has just ordered a state school to reinstate a Religion teacher, whom they had fired because she had married a divorced man from Germany.

New School for Velez Benaudalla

The Regional Education Board is spending 2.6m euros on a new school for Velez Benaudalla (just above Motril) to replace the old Colegio Madrigal & Padial. This new building will provide a room for a further 225 pupils.

The Junta and an Eye

The Junta de Andalucía has been sentenced to pay 131,000 euro in compensation to the family of a 6-year-old schoolboy who lost an eye at school.

Shivering Lobres

Poor little sods over at the Lobres primary school, CP Cervantes sit shivering, wearing their coats and scarves in their classrooms because the wiring in the building makes it impossible to use electric heating. Whose the bright spark behind that, you may ask.

Frozen Students

Padul’s budding scholars at the San Sebastian school are tolerating freezing classrooms thanks to a combination of power cuts and a new heating system, the former, all too common, erasing the programming of the latter.

Compulsory Vaccination

An outbreak of measles in the city of Granada has re-opened the debate over whether vaccinations should be optional or obligatory, where children are concerne

Digital Age Schools

Kids from the IES Alfaguara high school will be using digital textbooks this 2010-2011 school year, thanks to an experimental pilot project. The Education Board for the Junta de Andalucía has chosen ten schools with the province, which we use 938 pupils in total as digital guinea pigs. As well as this Loja school, the…