New school planned for Caleta

[Emmi Smith]

https://www.canarias7.es/siete-islas/fue...-CB7663602

Anyone know where this will be built as cannot find any reference in the article.

[Sam]

Due to the size (10,000 square meters - 4 buildings plus outdoor) I would expect the school to be build between Fuertesol and the main road but can't find any info about the location. All I've managed to find is this article @ www.ayto-antigua.es published back in April 2018:



The ceded public land and all the efforts made from the City Council of Antigua have the Government of the Canary Islands approve a budget of 5 million euros.

The City Council of Antigua and on its behalf Mayor Juan José Cazorla celebrates the approval of the Government of the Canary Islands of a budget of 4,990,903 euros for the construction of the new CEIP El Castillo.

With this multi-annual budget item, the Canary Islands Government fulfils its commitment to the Municipality, which had been delaying for years, despite the availability of public land ceded by the City Council of Antigua, as well as the construction project and all permissions and reports managed and in order.

This is good news for the entire Municipality of Antigua, especially for families residing in Caleta de Fuste who are forced to move their sons and daughters to schools in the Matorral, Puerto el Rosario or Antigua, says Mayor Juan José Cazorla .

The new CEIP El Castillo, on an area of ​​more than 3,000 square meters, will offer 450 places distributed in 12 classrooms for Children and 6 Primary, having specific spaces such as the Computer room, Multiple Uses, Music room, Library, Gym and changing rooms.

The new study centre will also have a kitchen and dining room, offering an indispensable service for many families in the town, facilitating the compatibility between their workday and the care of their sons and daughters. In addition to the educational modules, along with the outdoor play areas, sports facilities will be built with multi-sport and multi-purpose indoor courts, as well as a fighting ground.

We thank the Ministry of Education, adds the mayor, his commitment to strengthen the educational offer in the Municipality of Antigua that every year increases its population and that so far lacks any centre of studies in a town as important as Caleta de Fuste.

The approved tender budget amounts to 4,990,903 euros, whose investment is structured in 2018, 100,000 euros, next year, 2,442,451.50 euros and in 2020 to finish the work, 2,448,451.50 euros.

[windermeregolfer]

When we were looking in both 2011 and 2016 we were told that the school and health centre were planned on the land between the 2 golf courses 2nd hole on Fuerteventura golf and 17th on Las Salinas.  There is currently a big hole on this land.

[Captain Sensible]

The school has always been planned for the land between the 2 golf courses up near the Elba laundry.

Everyone will use private cars to take their children to school   So it won't be much different to the situation that exists now, where free buses take children to either the schools in El Matorral, Antigua or Triquiviate, or parents take them in private cars.

[Sam]

Just came across this article at the Government portal, revealing the plans for the new school (attached).

Google translate version:



The educational centre, which is being put out to tender for an expense exceeding five million euros, will provide Caleta de Fuste, in the municipality of Antigua, with four hundred and fifty new school places

The Minister of Education and Universities of the Government of the Canary Islands, Soledad Monzón, has signed this morning the Order calling for the procedures to tender the works of the new Center for Early Childhood and Primary Education El Castillo. The tender amount included in the file is 4,964,974.05 euros, to which we must add the ten percent withholding for the payment of the final certification of work, which rubs an expense of 5.5 million of euros to act on a total constructed area of ​​3,961.94 square meters.

With four buildings, the new CEIP El Castillo project will be located on a plot of 10,138 square meters in total and will allow four hundred and fifty children to be educated. A first building, on the ground floor, will form the teaching zone for early childhood education and complementary spaces. In a 2-storey building (ground floor + first floor), the teaching zone corresponding to primary education and administration areas and common spaces will be located. A third building will house the gym and changing rooms and, the room, the dining area, kitchen and services.

In addition, the outdoor spaces provided for in the program of needs will be located within the plot: playground, primary playground, school garden, fighting ground, parking lots and covered sports court.

The Bidding Order divides the planned payment into three annuities, so it is planned to finish the work, with 18 educational units, in the year 2021.

Educational Infrastructure Plan

The CEIP El Castillo is one of the works included in the Canarian Plan of Educational Infrastructure 2018-2025, where there are already two works started in Fuerteventura, such as the CEIP of Villaverde and Morro Jable.

The CEIP Villaverde, 9 units, is located in the town of the same name, in the municipality of La Oliva, in Fuerteventura. It occupies a plot of 12,057.10 square meters, with a constructed area of ​​2,467.34 m². and consists of a single-storey building. It will have capacity for 225 school places and is in execution, with a budget of 2,190,055.69 euros.

In addition to the 9 classrooms for children in primary and secondary school, it has a music workshop, 2 small group classrooms, one for computer science, another for resources, a multi-purpose room, library, dining room and kitchen and gymnasium, with their corresponding changing rooms.

Outside, it has a porch, children's play areas, Primary play area, sports courts, parking lots, orchard and garden area. The sports court cover project is in the supervision phase.

On the other hand, the new Morro Jable Infant and Primary Education Center is a teaching centre with 27 units and 660 school positions, located in Morro Jable, Pájara, Fuerteventura. It is a project located on a plot of 12,543.34 square meters, with a constructed area of ​​4,875.08 square meters distributed in four modules, one and two floors.

The centre has a gym module of 285.43 square meters, a dining room module of 308.17 square meters, indoor sports court and a total of thirty-four classrooms. The construction of the CEIP was awarded with a budget of 4,998,357.47 euros.

In total, the Canary Plan plans to invest in Fuerteventura, until 2025, 67.5 million euros of the 507 million that it contemplates for the entire Canary Islands. In the rest of the islands, 54.8 million euros correspond to Lanzarote; 107.4, to Gran Canaria; 154.7, to Tenerife; 13.2, to La Palma; 9.5 to La Gomera and 11.9 to El Hierro.

[Emmi Smith]

" In addition, the outdoor spaces provided for in the program of needs will be located within the plot: playground, primary playground, school garden, fighting ground, parking lots and covered sports court."

Crikey - what's a fighting ground?   For fisticuffs?

[Captain Sensible]

" In addition, the outdoor spaces provided for in the program of needs will be located within the plot: playground, primary playground, school garden, fighting ground, parking lots and covered sports court."

Crikey - what's a fighting ground?   For fisticuffs?

It's a ring for Lucha Canaria 'Canarian  wrestling'.  It was lost in the translation.

[Emmi Smith]

I thought it may be that, but just thought I'd have a little tongue in cheek moment!

[Can the Man]

I thought it may be that, but just thought I'd have a little tongue in cheek moment!

[Lauram]

https://www.canarias7.es/siete-islas/fue...-CB7663602

Anyone know where this will be built as cannot find any reference in the article.

Hi all. Newbee here to this forum!
Apologies for picking up on an old thread but wondered if anyone had any further information on this?
Been to the area recently and can see that construction work has now started.
Does anyone know when this will likely be finished and when enrolment can take place?
We're looking to make the move to fuerteventura from the UK and would be great if we could get our two girls enrolled.