A MURCIA school has moved its classes to the beach in a truly COVID-safe environment.
The Felix Rodriguez de la Fuente school has taken desks and chairs to Playa de los Nietos on the Mar Menor as part of a ‘Clean Air’ initiative across Murcia.
The teachers set up the furniture in specially-designated grids at 8.00 am each weekday.
Around 100 youngsters, in eight age groups between 3 and 12 years, then get a 20 minute lesson on the beach, weather permitting.
Headteacher, Alfonso Vera, said: “It is something quite historic to go outdoors and not onto a terrace, but instead to the shore of the Mar Menor for lessons.”
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LOS NIETOS, Spain – Does having school at the beach sound like a dream? After a year of remote learning and socially distanced classrooms, one school in the Spanish region of Murcia is doing just that, trying to combine clear air and a new way of teaching.
Outside the Felix Rodriguez de la Fuente school, mask-wearing children sit before a portable blackboard at rows of green desks neatly spaced out on the sandy shores of Playa de los Nietos (Grandchildren’s Beach).
“It’s safe, the children are having great fun,” said English teacher Juan Francisco Martinez. “What they learn here they don’t forget.”
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224 A teacher teaches a class to students of the Felix Rodriguez de la Fuente school, as part of a project known as Aire Limpio (Fresh Air) at the Playa de los Nietos (The Grandchildrens Beach), which aims to use better air quality for children during the COVID-19 pandemic, near Cartagena, southern Spain. (REUTERS/Nacho Doce)
Los Nietos, Spain, April 12
Does having school at the beach sound like a dream? After a year of remote learning and socially distanced classrooms, one school in the Spanish region of Murcia is doing just that, trying to combine clear air and a new way of teaching.
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LOS NIETOS, Spain (Reuters) - Does having school at the beach sound like a dream? After a year of remote learning and socially distanced classrooms, one school in the Spanish region of Murcia is doing just that, trying to combine clear air and a new way of teaching.
Outside the Felix Rodriguez de la Fuente school, mask-wearing children sit before a portable blackboard at rows of green desks neatly spaced out on the sandy shores of Playa de los Nietos (Grandchildren’s Beach).
“It’s safe, the children are having great fun,” said English teacher Juan Francisco Martinez. “What they learn here they don’t forget.”