"It wasn't only the walls that became more beautiful. The intervention that we did here at the Bairro Kindergarten brings even more motivation to all the professionals who work here and even more happiness to the children who study and play here daily". This is the belief of the Mayor of Vila Nova de Famalicão, Mário Passos, who yesterday witnessed the joy and satisfaction of the community of Bairro with the result of the requalification and expansion of the kindergarten of the parish.
The work, which involved a municipal financial effort of about half a million euros, was inaugurated this Monday, September 19, at the end of the day with much celebration that brought together teachers, staff, students and families.
"The space is more comfortable, more functional, with better conditions and better equipped to receive the 45 students that enter here daily, but at the end of the day, the most important thing is to realize that the educational process in Bairro has won with the intervention that we made here", added the mayor, who was accompanied by the councillor for Education, Augusto Lima, and by the president of the Parish Council, Rui Pacheco Alves, who was also "very pleased" with the completion of the work.
The Bairro Kindergarten now has two activity rooms and a new extension room. The work also implied the renovation of the canteen and cafeteria, bathrooms, storage room and teachers' room. The outdoor space was also the target of a requalification, with the installation of a playground.
Remember that this was one of several projects carried out by the local authority for the start of the new school year. The municipal school park requalification represented, this school year, a municipal investment of 7.3 million euros. These numbers refer to works already finished and in progress, as is the case of the interventions in Ribeirão (2nd phase) and Avidos Basic Schools.
New interventions are also planned for next year. Interventions that may be around one million euros and that include the rehabilitation of the EB1 of Castelões, Gavião, São Miguel-o-Anjo, Mões and Arnoso Santa Eulália, EB 2,3 D. Maria II, Kindergarden of Outiz and Lameiras. At the beginning of this school year, Mário Passos also pointed out as urgent the rehabilitation of the 2nd and 3rd Cycles Basic Schools and Secondary Schools of the council - Father Benjamim Salgado, EB 2,3 Júlio Brandão, D. Maria II, Bernardino Machado, Dr. Nuno Simões and EB 2,3 of Gondifelos - claiming from the Portuguese Government the necessary support for the accomplishment of these works.