Friday 17 March, the Formentera arm of the Open University for Older Adults (UOM) will host a new lecture with "Un altre patrimoni: el patrimoni industrial" ['Another heritage: Industry'] by historian Antoni Ferrer Abárzuza. The talk will start at 5.00pm in the Retirees and Pensioners' Club (Club de Jubilats i Pensionistes) of Sant Francesc and is open to islanders fifty and up.

13 March 2023
Office of Communication
Consell de Formentera

Today the Formentera teachers' resource centre (CEP) has presented the Classroom of the Future (Aula del Futur), a project aimed at shaping the values of primary and secondary pupils from across the island.

According to Ana Juan, president of the Consell de Formentera, "before the pandemic, the Office of Sport launched the Aula del Futur with the CEP as part of the Placing Values in Sport [Posam valors a l'esport] programme, and today it is at last complete". President Juan affirmed, "Now we want local students, teachers and parents to take advantage of this space to work on values intersectionally".

For her part, Alejandra Ferrer, vice president and education councillor, shared her satisfaction with this new initiative that "will allow teachers, students and families to learn actively, and harness new technologies to update how we access knowledge".

The Aula del Futur is a space where islanders can use innovative methodologies to work on values in a direct and motivating way. The space will promote dynamics of respect, dialogue, tolerance, decision making and teamwork. In addition, the students themselves will help to empower society with values like empathy, cooperation, gender equality, coexistence and more.

Users of the multifunctional space will be able to make recordings to various ends: to foment physical, playful and participatory practices. Inter-generational gatherings at the space will seek, among other things, to promote cooperative activities and games and stimulate self-improvement and the spirit of tackling challenges. Moreover, the classroom is equipped with digital educational technology to help students in competency building.

Digital transformation
In parallel, the Balearic Government will provide the five schools with 61 digital screens (one for every classroom), 69 laptops and 9 document cameras to assist the digital transformation. Advisory teachers and teachers attended today's presentation, as did Paula Ferrer, sports councillor; Amanda Fernández, general director of early childhood, innovation and educational community; Yolanda Martínez, head of the educational information technology service, and Carme Jaume, head of the language normalisation and training service.

Through the Posam valors a l'esport programme, the Consell de Formentera has provided funding in the amount of €12,000.

10 March 2023
Office of Communication
Consell de Formentera

The Office of Education of the Consell de Formentera reports that from Monday 13 March to the end of the month, applications will be accepted for children aged zero to three (born in 2023, 2022 and 2021) at Escoleta Sa Miranda and Escoleta Sant Ferran during the 2023-2024 school year.

Applications must be submitted online on the website of the Balearic Government, with a link also available in the Escoletes section of the Consell de Formentera website. After online submission of the application, paperwork must be dropped off in person at Escoleta La Miranda (to schedule an appointment, call 971 32 34 15). Information can be requested via e-mail (escoleta@conselldeformentera.cat) or telephone (971 323 415; 9.00am to 2.00pm).

Calendar
The list of provisional points will be made public on 12 May. Appeals may be made between 15 and 17 May. The final lists will be announced on 30 May and enrolment for the first cycle of early-childhood education at the Consell de Formentera Escoletes will run from 31 May to 15 June.

Now in their second year of operation, the two Escoletes have a total of 118 students. During the regular enrolment period, the waiting list was at zero, which Alejandra Ferrer, vice president and education councillor, described as "a priority for our policies of work-life balance." Next year, there will be 14 places for children born in 2023, 39 for children born in 2022 (48 places total) and 19 for children born in 2021 (72 places total).

The Escoletes team consists of a total of 21 educators and two educational assistants, as well as cleaning, maintenance and kitchen staff.

8 March 2023
Office of Communication
Consell de Formentera

At 5.00pm, Friday 3 March, in the Sant Ferran Seniors' Centre (Centre de Majors), Felip Cirer, a graduate in Hispanic philology and professor of Catalan language and literature, will present the third instalment of UOM-Formentera under the title 'Eivissa and Formentera one hundred years ago'. Formentera's Open University for Older Adults (UOM) series consists of seven lectures, until 28 April, and is for local over-50s.

28 February 2023
Office of Communication
Consell de Formentera