The Provincial Director of the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports (MEFPyD) in Melilla, Elena Fernández Treviño, has valued the Children’s School ‘Dolores Bartolomé’, which will provide 197 places from 0 to 3 years to the city and that “will cover that great waiting list that we know happens year after year and that is so necessary in a city like ours”.
The head of the Provincial Directorate of the MEFPyD made these statements to the press on her visit to the works of this school, accompanied by representatives of the Ministry of Education who have moved to Melilla to know the situation of the educational centers of our city. In particular, the Director General of Educational Management and Planning, Susana Tejadillos, and the Assistant Director General of Centers and Programs, Librada García, have traveled.
This first stop, in Altos de la Vía, has been able to check the state of the works of the Children’s School ‘Dolores Bartolomé’, started in 2023. The ministerial representatives together with the team of the Provincial Directorate of Education and the Ministry of Education of the Autonomous City have traveled to the place.
Elena Fernández Treviño has pointed out that this was a “must see”, as it is a collaboration between the MEFPyD, through the European Funds of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR), and the Autonomous City of Melilla.
197 places from 0 to 3 years
The work is valued at 4,600,000 euros, of which, he explained, approximately 48% is contributed by the MEFPyD and the remaining percentage is assumed by the Autonomous City. The Provincial Director has said that the work must be completed before the end of the year and for this purpose a perceptive follow-up will be made, “to see if the deadlines are being met”.
In this regard, it has announced that a joint infrastructure monitoring commission has been created between the Ministry of Education and the Provincial Directorate of Melilla, to address issues related to the infrastructure and the state of it in the primary and secondary schools of the city.
This new Children’s School will be the largest in Melilla, with 197 places for children from 0 to 3 years old. The Provincial Director has highlighted the importance of responding to the existing demand and stressed that it is an innovative and pioneering school in many issues, such as design and energy consumption. In this way, it has highlighted its “great environmental sustainability”, since energy consumption will be made thanks to solar panels.
Get to know first-hand the centres
For her part, the General Director of Educational Management and Planning, Susana Tejadillos, has outlined the agenda that they have planned for these two days, in which they plan to visit Infant Centers, Primary Schools today, and Secondary Schools tomorrow.
“We want to get to know the educational teams of the centers first hand and see how it is working and what needs there are,” he said. To do this, they will meet with the management teams of the centers and will hold a meeting with the AMPAs in the Provincial Directorate.