The ‘Raise your hand’ programme, now in its third year, will reach throughout this school year more than a thousand students in the fourth year of primary school in the municipality. This activity, promoted by the Education and Citizen Participation departments, reached the Virgen de la Peña school on Wednesday 12th. “We will learn what citizen participation is, how to initiate a participatory process, what are the phases to carry it out, we address the contents of sustainable development, we value the network of associations and their importance in the development of the municipality, and all this will be based on teamwork”, explained the sociocultural instructor of the Department for Citizen Participation, Toñi Sánchez. 

These students in 4th B also received a very special visit from the mayoress of Mijas, Ana Mata (PP), and the councillor for Education, Juan José Torres Trella (PP), who explained first hand how the Town Hall is structured, who its representatives are and the functions of the local administration, among other issues. “This programme ensures that, like sponges, they absorb the meaning of citizen participation, the structure of our Town Hall, its network of associations, the responsibility and activity of the different AMPAS (Parents’ Associations), in short, that they naturally acquire all this knowledge and at the same time their doubts, reflections and contributions also emerge”, explained the mayoress.

The main objective of this work is to deepen in those methodologies and educational proposals that favour and develop values, contents, attitudes, skills, abilities, affections and knowledge, all to prepare students for a participatory, active and responsible social life, and for them to be able to contribute to the development and welfare of the society in which they live. 

Participation

During the meeting we had the opportunity to see how interested the children were in learning about all these issues and they also had the opportunity to ask the mayoress and the councillor their questions. “It is very gratifying to see the children participating and talking about different issues that were being raised in class”, said Torres Trella. 

The students said they were delighted with the activity and learned a lot. “Today they taught us about our neighbourhood, how to take care of it, our street, the mayoress also explained many important things about our town”, said Lucas Grittani, a student from the school. Izan Segovia also said that “today they have explained a lot of things; what citizen collaboration is”. They paid close attention to the different explanations given during this activity, respectfully keeping their turn to speak and showing curiosity for those issues that are more familiar to them.

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