The Department of Education will allocate 175,000 euros for the realization of these activities related to nature, water sports, multi-adventure and the practice of English This project aims to promote a healthy leisure and educate through games and activities of animation in an environment natural, transmitting values ​​and positive attitudes in boys and girls
The Government Board today approved the start of the procedure to organize summer camps by the Department of Education.
To this end, it has given its approval to the specifications of particular administrative clauses and technical prescriptions for the hiring, through an open procedure, of the "Leisure and free time activities service in summer 2018, for schoolchildren of the Municipality of Murcia".
As explained by Councilman Rafael Gómez, will allocate a maximum budget of 175,010 euros for the celebration of these camps, which may participate school students from third to sixth grade of primary education, who are enrolled in centers of the municipality of Murcia .
"This amount includes accommodation on a full-board basis for seven days and six nights in natural environments, materials and sufficient resources for the development of the different activities and the service and coordination of monitors," Gómez detailed.
The contract is divided into four lots, which will be carried out from July 2 to July 29, 2018, in periods of 7 days (6 nights).
The Multi-Adventure Camp in English, Camp Nautical Sports and Mountain Camp and Multiaventura are distributed in the Nature and Environment Camp.
The number of places corresponds to 500 students, distributed in 50 places per shift, since there will be several dates for each of them.
This project aims to promote a healthy leisure by providing resources and teaching children how to occupy their free time in a constructive way, promote coexistence between children through play and recreational activities, with the aim of helping them in their social and social growth, and foster in the youngest habits of coexistence, respect, solidarity, sensitivity, participation and communication.
Creativity and fun
"We seek to educate through games and activities of animation in a natural environment, transmitting values ​​and positive attitudes in schoolchildren, participating in the different suggested group activities, thus favoring cooperative and solidarity attitudes, promoting the development of creativity to through playful activities, "he stressed.
In addition, the specifications for particular administrative clauses and technical requirements for hiring include a series of requirements for companies that choose to offer the service and that guarantee the safety of young children, which is usually the first time they leave their house for several days in a row without the family.
These are:
- That are close to the municipality of Murcia, have in the vicinity public health service of primary care, enjoy good accessibility and road communications.
- Various facilities to meet the preferences of schoolchildren and their parents: nautical, mountain and language activities.
These facilities must have the necessary services to reside for several days: dormitories, restrooms, dining rooms, classrooms, libraries, open spaces, as well as sports spaces and swimming pool, adapted to schoolchildren with age-appropriate security measures and closed in the hours not allowed or resting.
- Equipments built in areas with the possibility of itineraries, tours, excursions or sports competitions (including maritime zones) with safety, being non-rugged areas, rural areas with little traffic, shallow sea area and at the same time areas with high natural value that contribute environmental and conservationist contents.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia