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Agrícola awarded the merit of 165 students

Penela City Council, sponsored by Crédito Agrícola awarded academic, civic and sports merit of 165 students. The format of the Education Gala, which is now in its 15th edition, will now be revised, announced the mayor. Eduardo Nogueira dos Santos stressed that a protocol with the University of Coimbra, through the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences is being finalized “with the aim of establishing wide cooperation in the field of Education”.

165 students who stood out in the academic year of 2021/2022, 140 for academic merit, 23 for civic merit and two for sport merit. This year, the event was presented by Beatriz Gama and Pedro Mendes.

Photographs of various moments of the Education Gala are on the following pages.

The Education Minister visited the Agrupamento de Escolas Infante D. Pedro

On January the 8th, 2022, the minister of Education, Tiago Brandão Rodrigues, visited the Agrupamento de Escolas Infante D. Pedro in Penela ,to know about the work developed in this group of schools.

ETP Sicó School celebrates 31st birthday

The Escola Tecnológica e Profissional de Sicó (ETP) celebrated its 31st anniversary. At the ceremony, the Councillor for Education of the Town Hall, Edite Simões, presented the school merit certificates.

Municipal Council of Education meeting

The Municipal Board of Education gathered in a meeting on the 9th of November 2022 and approved the proposed amendment to the regulation and the activities in education, for the academic year 2022/2023, have also been presented and discussed. With the beginning of this school year, the municipality, in close articulation with CIMRC and ANMP, Indicate and forwarded detailed information regarding the list of needs of the Agrupamento de Escolas Infante D. Pedro, in Penela, which is of more than €500,000 for the coming years. The meeting ended with a balance of the process of decentralization of the services In the area of education.

World day of poetry, trees and water with activities for children

As part of the celebrations of World Poetry, Tree and Water Day, the Municipality of Penela organized a set of activities for the children of pre and elementary Education of the Agrupamento de Escolas Infante D. Pedro. Among the various workshops, the “Threats to Forests”, “Poetry”, “Water Road-Show”, “Dancing”, “Mosaic” and the “Roman Hortus” stand out.

World Day of Children and Environment

The World Children's and the Environment Day was celebrated with activities at the Parque de Águas Romanas, on the 3rd of June. On the 1s of June, the municipal executive was present at the three school centres of the Agrupamento de Escolas Infante D. Pedro, to invite the entire school community to participate in the activities and to deliver t-shirts, to promote the two symbolic days.