The Public Education Center Special Primitiva Lopez is celebrating: 50 years old.
And to publicize its work in the city with people with special needs has made an open house for anyone who wants during the day, Tuesday May 10, meeting facilities and the work that takes place there.
For this reason, the mayor, Jose Lopez, together with the Councillor for Health, Francisco Calderon, the Councillor for Social Services, Carmen Martin, and the Councillor for Culture, David Martinez, and representatives of other local political groups, visited the this school facilities in public ownership in the hands of its director, Antonio Garcia, and have known firsthand his students and professionals who work there.
The halls wore costumes and photographs of theatrical presentations made by the school over the years.
In classrooms, students enjoyed different activities with computers, working with ceramic and clay, or developing your senses in the multisensory room.
In a small room they sounded songs Frozen these students were rehearsing to represent their next theatrical performance;
guitars were heard with catchy songs and rhythm in another room sportmusic performing, music unaunión sports center that teachers have created to unite both subjects and thus promote the development and student learning.
The variety and development in all fields of education motivates professionals to develop all kinds of activities in the center forward without missing smiles to make the day more bearable day.
To do this, the motor working through exercises, or introduce these students to new educational tools whiteboards that offer a variety of features for entertainment and learning.
The mayor, Jose Lopez, has been grateful for the invitation to visit the Primitiva Lopez, who since 1966 works with about 140 people with mental disabilities, and has interacted with different students at the school knowing their assignments and learning in it, that extend to activities in a particular orchard available to the center.
NEED FOR NEW SPACE
Despite having fantastic facilities erected on municipal land, as indicated by the mayor, Jose Lopez, the center still needs space.
The director of Primitiva Lopez, Antonio Garcia, has said the mayor and Town Planning the need for an extension of the center or warehouse to store materials or furniture, which are currently stored in the locker room that have to use the gym, and all the theater props which is an important part of the investment made from the center every year.
We want the minimum investment is made economy but we can have an answer for our students, besides one of the problems we have is that the classes are very saturated and sometimes we worry not knowing how to expand the center to enroll all pupils, He added the center's director.
In response to these requests, Lopez has indicated that it will hold a meeting quickly to see if they start giving before the next course solution you need through work or container, for what they have to see the plots and what it is around the center and its ownership.
Let's try from the City and urging the Autonomous Community to give us a hand to begin to overcome the problems of a center already is being small, we can not look away.
The needs of these children have to comply within, he added the mayor.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena