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Registration period opens for Sa Miranda infant nursery school's 2013/14 school year

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This May, Formentera families interested in applying for a spot in the Sa Miranda nursery school can contact the Citizen Information Office of the Formentera Island Council, Monday through Saturday (from 9 am to 2 pm) to process all the required documentation.

The admissions and registration process opens 2 May and closes on 16 May. Once proceedings have concluded, the provisional list of admitted students will be published 5 June and, once all grievances have been attended, registration will be finalised between 24 and 26 June.

This year 36 spots are available for children in the first cycle of nursery education (from 0 to 3). To this number of newly-created spaces in the school, we must calculate for the 36 children aged 2-3 that already have a space, which brings the total to 72 pupils, a figure which might later change according to the distribution of specific groups.

Spaces must be requested during the established period, providing documentation containing the child's date of birth along with other documents and requirements necessary to the evaluation process.

We remind readers that the Sa Miranda school is dependent on the Formentera Council and meets all of the necessary requirements in order to operate as an educational centre providing the first cycle of nursery education.

EIP Sa Miranda (from the acronym for Escola Infantil i Primària) currently has on its staff 9 educators and one teacher, and, as the sole public nursery school on the island, it gives an extremely comprehensive and flexible educational service, adapted to the educational needs of the population of Formentera.

Admission criteria By law, the centre must reserve at least one spot in each group for students with special needs in educational support and in situations of social/legal vulnerability.

When applications outnumber spaces available, they are scored and ordered by the centre's School Council according to the criteria established by the Department of Education and Culture of the Balearic Islands. Priority criteria include: presence of other siblings already attending the school, family income, existing disabilities in the student, parent, legal guardian or other siblings.

Complementary criteria include: status as a single-parent family, cases where custody is only given to one parent, the student's suffering a chronic disease, or presence of multiple-births siblings. All of the relevant information can be consulted on the Council of Formentera's website at www.consellinsulardeformentera.cat, or by calling the Office of Education and Culture at 971.32.12.75.