The month of September is characterized by “going back to school.” On Friday 10th, 7,230 infant and primary school children returned to the classrooms, while on the 15th there were about 6,000 students from secondary education, high school, vocational training, training cycles and Permanent Adult Education who said goodbye to the summer holidays.
The entrance to the classrooms was staged, since again this 2021-2022 academic year, the same anti-COVID measures will be maintained, for the moment: different accesses, bubble groups and the mandatory use of masks or hydroalcoholic gel.
The mayor of the city, Josele González (PSOE), attended the start of the new school year 2021-2022 at the El Olmo school: “It is our main objective that this course, like the previous one, can be carried out with all sanitary guarantees and we will do our best to make it happen”.
González also highlighted “the great work that the entire educational community carried out last year in this area to guarantee that schools were safe spaces. Thanks to this, there were very few infections in the Mijas schools”.
According to the councillor for Education, Mariló Olmedo (Cs), “this course will be a little easier than last year because we do not have as much uncertainty or lack of information that there was in the previous course. We have been living with COVID-19 for more than a year, so everything is calmer, although we will not relax the measures. We have carried out work in indoor rooms that are used more in winter during school hours, taking advantage of the fact that they are empty during the summer and then undertaking work in the outdoor areas”.
Excited to be back
2,090 ‘Mijeño’ students study Early Childhood Education, of which 690 start school for the first time. Families have been more confident with this new course, “since last year the measures imposed in schools worked very well and we did not have many cases”, said Inma Fiestas, mother of two children from CEIP El Olmo.
“I have come back looking forward to seeing my friends”, said Sara Belhach, a 5th grader from the same centre.
With “great enthusiasm”, said the director of El Olmo, Manuel Álvarez, “this is how we return to the classrooms. But also with all the security measures of the anti-COVID protocol”, he added.
High schools
In the case of the secondary schools, some 6,000 students began their classes on the 15th in public and private high schools in Mijas.
The councillor for Education also wanted to see first-hand the start of the course at this stage and visited the IES Sierra de Mijas. “There are 5,100 students who start classes today in public secondary schools and high school, of which approximately 1,050 are first year of ESO”, said the councillor.
“I hope we return to normality as fully as possible this year”, said the director of the IES Sierra Mijas, Francisco Zafra.
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