Education

Open enrolment for Consell’s Catalan courses for adults

Wednesday, 19 May 2021 10:02

The Formentera government’s Language Advisory Service has announced open registration for adult Catalan-language learners interested in preparing for the Balearic government’s September round of official exams. From 19 May to 4 June, students can choose from among four morning and four afternoon groups: two at the A2 level, two B1, two B2 and, finally, two C1-C2, which will be taught together.

Instruction is scheduled to start 14/15 June and end in time for exams (enrolment for which is now closed), and classes will be held in classrooms of the Formentera Escola de Música i Dansa.

Free courses and limited space
Groups will be capped at twenty to ensure compliance with distancing measures and enrolment priority will be given to students enrolled in the official tests.

The course timetable is as follows:
A2 (Monday and Wednesday, 8.00am – 9.00am | Mon./Wed., 6.30pm – 7.30pm);
B1 (Tuesday and Thursday, 8.00am – 9.00am | Mon./Wed., 7.30pm – 8.30pm);
B2 (Tue./Thu., 9.00am – 10.00am | Tue./Thu. 6.30pm – 7.30pm);
C1/C2 (Mon./Wed., 9.00am – 10.00am | Tue./Thu., 7.30pm – 8.30pm).

To register in person, schedule an appointment at the Citizen Information Office (OAC, Carrer Ramon Llull, 6, Sant Francesc). To register online, visit the Virtual Citizen Information Office (OVAC.conselldeformentera.cat).

For more information, please contact sal@conselldeformentera.cat.

19 May 2021
Communications Department
Consell de Formentera

Call for 20 leisure supervisors at Escola d’Estiu

Thursday, 29 April 2021 14:38

cartell 2021 oferta monitor The Consell de Formentera has announced that through 9 May, applications are being accepted for 20 leisure supervisors at the island’s summer daycamp programme in 2021. The season is expected to run weekday mornings from 22 June to 31 August. Eligible candidates must be over 18 and have completed training in children and youth leisure activities. More information is available in the ofertes de feina (job offers) section of the Consell de Formentera website.

29 April 2021
Communications Department
Consell de Formentera

Formentera bolsters student aid amid Covid crisis

Wednesday, 13 January 2021 11:41

The Consell de Formentera government commission has green-lighted three proposed lines of educational assistance totalling nearly €94,000. In the words of education and culture councillor Susana Labrador, beyond traditional aid for students and families which will be issued for the 2020-2021 school year, in view of the Covid crisis, several special lines of assistance seek to offer a leg-up to crisis-hit families.

The government commission approved ten €1,250 grants for Formentera students who attended higher-education programmes in 2018-2019.

The same commission also signed off on money so local primary and secondary schools can administer the textbook reuse programme and approved direct assistance to programme participants and children from large families or single-parent homes. Seventeen individual grants for pupils enrolled during the 2019-2020 school year, as well as assistance for the island’s four public schools, pushed total aid nearly €3,000 beyond the initial €45,000.

The commission likewise ratified €33,900 for 80 grants to offset double and triple insularity (inequity due to living on an island once- and sometimes twice-removed from services) and to help students pay for off-island university, vocational training, formal education and education in the arts.

Special assistance in light of Covid crisis

Councillor Labrador said islanders would soon be able to apply for educational assistance for the 2020-2021 school year, pointing out that the traditional total of €95,500 would be more than doubled to palliate the toll of the Covid crisis. The funding will be used for the following:

- Assistance to mitigate double and triple insularity during 2020-2021 school year
- Grants for higher education in 2019-2020 and 2020-2021
- Financial assistance to purchase textbooks (as part of reuse programme) and laptops (part of digitalisation programme for year one pupils in secondary education)
- Special aid for purchase of computer equipment

According to Labrador, the lines of financial aid will be tailored for the particular situations and difficulties faced by crisis-hit families. A panel made up of educational associations has been informed of the assistance and has given them the green light. When the panel convened for its first meeting 10 November, the gathering served to bring together their proposals.

13 January 2021
Communications Department
Consell de Formentera

Registration at Formentera nurseries starts Monday

Saturday, 13 March 2021 09:55

The Formentera Department of Education reports that Monday 15 March marks the start of open enrolment at Sa Miranda and Camí Vell nurseries. Interested families have until 31 March 2021 to register on the Balearic education office’s dedicated platform.

Escoleta Sa Miranda is open to children born in 2019, 2020 and 2021 and Escoleta del Camí Vell to children born in 2020 and 2021. Provisional registration lists will be made public 14 May, with the definitive version scheduled for release 31 May.

New nursery
Education and culture chief Susana Labrador pointed out that Escoleta del Camí Vell, a stop-gap solution pending construction of the new Sant Ferran school, would close as soon as the the new facility opened.

Labrador said children enrolled at or attending Camí Vell would be automatically transferred to the Sant Ferran centre when the new nursery became operational, and added that a special process of enrolment would also take place for children under one, since the Sant Ferran school will offer classes for those ages, unlike Camí Vell.

Families with questions can contact the school at by phoning 971.32.34.15 (9.00am to 2.00pm, Monday to Friday) or by sending an email to escoleta@conselldeformentera.cat.

12 March 2021
Communications Department
Consell de Formentera

Sant Ferran’s new school and nursery to open doors September 2021

Wednesday, 18 November 2020 18:27

foto 2020 nova escola 1 Consell de Formentera president Alejandra Ferrer and education councillor Susana Labrador met today with Balearic premiere Francina Armengol and regional education, universities and research minister Martí March to visit the site where a new nursery (escoleta) and primary school are being built in Sant Ferran.

On hand for the visit were two of Formentera’s deputy premieres, Ana Juan and Rafael Ramírez; the Eivissa-Formentera envoy from the Balearic education ministry, Margalida Ferrer; the head of the regional planning, management and centres office, Antoni Morante; as well as representatives of the Sant Ferran school administration and parents’ association and assorted authorities.

Balearic officials said they had every indication the buildings would be operational by no later than the 2021-2022 school year.

President Ferrer described the future schools as “highly anticipated and badly needed” and applauded the local educational community’s patience waiting for the new infrastructure. “We hope that the next time we’re here will be to celebrate the opening of Sant Ferran’s new school and nursery”, she said.

Project
Plans for the two centres were drafted by IBISEC and, in the case of the primary school, envisage ‘two-line’ facilities (tailored for 2 groups at each grade level): 6 groups of three to six year olds and 12 groups of six to twelve year olds, or 450 pupils all together. The primary school will sit atop a 11,037m2 parcel located on the outskirts of town, and just beside the future escoleta — another two-line centre designed to accommodate 74 zero to three year olds.

The comb-shaped building’s spine will run alongside a corridor that grants access to administrative offices and the school cafeteria, which will double as a welcome space for early arrivals as well as a venue for public events.

Older primary pupils will attend classes in a complex made up of three pavilions. One pavilion will house common areas like the library, computer lab, teachers’ lounge, and multipurpose and small-group room; the remaining two pavilions —buildings with a central hallway and classrooms on either side— will house the twelve upper primary classes.

A porch area connects the courtyard areas of the lower primary levels and nursery, simultaneously separating those segments of the school from the upper primary students’ courtyard. The school gymnasium is located behind these areas.

Construction of the primary school will be paid for by the Balearic Ministry of Education, Universities and Research, while construction of the municipal lower primary school will be paid for by the Consell de Formentera. The work will cost €6.7 million all told, with the Govern balear assuming €5.8 million for the school, and the Consell picking up €1.1 million for the nursery.

The Sant Ferran school currently accommodates 328 pupils and occupies a parcel which is not zoned for further expansion, hence the decision to classify the new schools as a top priority in the Balearic ministry’s 2016-2023 Educational Infrastructure Plan (PIE).

The PIE envisions similar build outs on every island in the region — part of a strategy to respond systematically and objectively to structural needs at Balearic schools.

The project is co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund as part of the ERDF’s Operational Programme for 2014-2020.

18 November 2020
Communications Department
Consell de Formentera