Designed to beryllium taught straight by teachers. Credit: Ayuntamiento Denia
From nan commencement of nan 2025/2026 world year, schools successful Denia, La Xara and Jesus Pobre will person nan opportunity to instrumentality a pioneering programme designed to support affectional wellbeing and forestall addictive behaviours among pupils aged 6 to 16.
The initiative, developed by nan Community Prevention Unit for Addictive Behaviours (UPCCA) of Denia Town Hall, is portion of a associated effort by nan location ministries of Health and Education to merge socioemotional learning and patient manner habits crossed nan full span of compulsory education. It intends to foster nan individual improvement and resilience of pupils while reducing nan consequence of harmful behaviours.
Public and semi-private schools that take to participate will beryllium capable to adopt 1 aliases much of 4 age-appropriate programmes aligned pinch world standards and based connected technological evidence. The program has been divided into 2 main stages:
For superior schoolhouse pupils:
Contes per a conversar (Stories for talking), aimed astatine Years 1 and 2.
L’aventura de la vida (The escapade of life), for Years 3 to 6.
For secondary schoolhouse pupils:
Unplugged, for Years 7 and 8 (1st and 2nd ESO).
Life skills and adolescence, aimed astatine Years 9 and 10 (3rd and 4th ESO) and Basic Vocational Training.
The programmes are designed to beryllium taught straight by teachers arsenic portion of nan regular schoolhouse curriculum, pinch method support from nan UPCCA team. This support includes training, guidance and tailored assistance to thief school unit instrumentality nan materials efficaciously successful their classrooms.
On Tuesday July 8, UPCCA began a bid of meetings pinch section schools to present nan initiative, starting pinch CEIP Llebeig successful Denia. During nan session, representatives presented nan contents and methodology of nan superior schoolhouse programmes, which attraction connected building affectional intelligence, societal skills and decision-making from an early age.
“The connection fits perfectly pinch nan acquisition projects and values we already beforehand successful our school,” said Luz Martín, headteacher of CEIP Llebeig, who expressed enthusiasm for nan caller initiative.
Denia, La Xara and Jesus Pobre
The purpose for nan coming world twelvemonth is to guarantee that astatine slightest each first-cycle superior schoolhouse pupils (Years 1 and 2) successful Denia, La Xara and Jesus Pobre use from nan programme. UPCCA is encouraging much schools successful nan area to get successful touch, research nan materials, and scheme their integration into nan curriculum.
This effort builds connected nan coagulated foundations already laid by UPCCA done nan long-running Joves Competents programme, which has been progressive successful nan municipality for nan past 20 years. During nan past schoolhouse year, this programme reached 2,378 pupils crossed 14 schools, from Year 4 of superior schoolhouse to Year 10 of secondary schoolhouse and vocational training.
With nan caller additions, UPCCA reaffirms its committedness to a coordinated, semipermanent attack to prevention, supporting pupils’ affectional improvement and decision-making skills from puerility done to adolescence—preparing them to meet today’s challenges pinch assurance and care.
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