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Summer vacations are reduced, Christmas vacations gain one day and there are 3 to 4 days of free disposal
In a press conference after visiting the Baldiri Reixac school in Barcelona, the ‘president’ of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, and the ‘conseller’ of Education, Josep Gonzàlez-Cambray, presented the guidelines for the next school year 2022/23 in Catalonia, a course marked by the promotion of the educational model by competencies, which also reaches the Baccalaureate. The big news will be the calendar is restructured, to advance the start of classes. The course will start on September 5 for infant and primary education and September 7 for ESO, Baccalaureate and FP.
In this way, the summer holidays will be shortened. Aragonès has justified this change by equal opportunities, which starts at school, he has said. This change will benefit all those families who have difficulties signing their children up for leisure activities before the start of classes. Also to single-parent families and will benefit conciliation. “The economic situation of the families cannot be a determining factor”, the ‘president’ stressed. “Education is the fundamental pillar of society,” he added.
Cambray has pointed out that the distribution of holidays, highly concentrated in summer, was “atypical”. “We are rationalizing the calendar and we are approaching the European calendars”, the ‘conseller’ has underlined. He has assured that shortening the summer holidays does not imply a reduction in teaching hours.
This reorganization will also mean that the Christmas holidays they will win one day; They will start on December 21. In addition, the centers earn a free disposal day: It will take 3 to 4 days. Educació will recommend that this additional day be done during the second school semester.
Between September 5 and 30, public nursery and primary schools will short-time from 09:00 to 13:00. Dining room service will function as normal. There will be no classes in the afternoon. This measure, the ‘conseller’ pointed out, “will facilitate the coordination of the teaching staff to work on pedagogical content to teach during the course.” Another advantage of this reduced working day in September, a month that is still hot, is that the schedule will be that of “best thermal comfort”.
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Asked what will happen to families who cannot pick up their children at 1:00 p.m. or after the dining room, if there will be extracurricular Until the afternoon, Cambray has stated that the centers will be organized to offer leisure activities from 3:30 p.m., which is when the dining room hours end.
Likewise, Educació will advance a month, from July to June, the naming templates so that in July all the teams are already named.