Portimão school embraces tree planting drive
As part of their recently-launched ‘Plant a School’ programme, Lisbon-based Mother Earth, an association for the preservation of the environment, is organising a tree-planting drive at Bemposta school in Portimão.
Pre-school to become ‘compulsory’ as part of national strategy to combat poverty
Pre-school in Portugal is set to become compulsory as part of the national strategy to combat poverty 2021-2023. Explain reports, this effectively means that schooling will have to start at
Checkered start to new school year
The new school year began in earnest yesterday with all kinds of hiccups along the way. It hasn’t been a case of Covid-19 causing problems this time, but a teachers’
Masks in the playground? How ‘recommended’ has morphed into mandatory…
Parents, schools, teachers, children – everyone is confused today by yet another ‘communications failing’ on the part of DGS health chiefs: yesterday the country heard health director Graça Freitas ‘recommend’
Lagoa schools free from asbestos
Asbestos roofing has finally been removed from all state-run schools in the Lagoa borough. Recent work to remove the hazardous material was carried out at Escola Básica Professor João Cónim,
Mass-testing to go forwards throughout schools community
The ministry of education has announced that “testing for Covid-19 directed at the school community” (meaning public and private institutions) will start in September and continue on into October. The
Mother whose child was “removed” by armed police for not wearing mask at school seeks retribution
“I am going to present a formal complaint against the school director, the Social Services employee (involved) and the judge that ordered my daughter to go and live with her
Eupheus students enjoy water sports in Quinta do Lago
“Embracing learning activities that also take place outside of the classroom”, Eupheus International School in Loulé took all its students, on Friday, May 7, on the first of several school
47 outbreaks of Covid-19 in Portugal’s creches and primary schools during first 2 weeks of reopening
Portugal’s health authorities have reported 47 ‘outbreaks of infection’ in creches and primary schools in the period March 15-26. In other words, in little more than 10 days of reopening
AstraZeneca ‘bombshell’ may delay Portugal’s vaccine programme, admits PM
Prime minister António Costa has reacted to the ‘bombshell’ news that there is in fact a link between the AstraZeneca vaccine and blood clots “observed after its administration”, warning that