One thing that stands out for me about the school my kids go to in Tenerife(and presumably then the state schools in general) is the number of outings they take the kids on. In this last school year my kids have visited Agua Park for the dolphin show, Aguilas Park for the bird show and each of them visited Finca Carreton where one rode a donkey and the other a horse and they returned with an eco-friendly ‘fly trap’ that they’d made and a seedling for them to grow at home. My daughter also went on a nature trip to Red Mountain in El Medano.
In previous years my daughter has also visited the firemen, the airport, been to a movie and to a El Quimpi where she met farm animals and engaged in several activities including baking a cake.
A couple of times a year there are also occasions to dress up and march through the town or have a village celebration. This year the Canarian Day events were curtailed by the teachers strike but in previous years kids and teachers dressed up in traditional Canarian outfits, danced and sang and the whole town turned out to watch them and join in their celebrations. Around carnival time, the school again dresses up and this time parades through the village in fancy dress.
On the day of the fancy dress parade, you can practically get bulldozed to the ground by the number of parents galloping alongside their beloved bairns taking pictures. Having recently read a few weird tales in UK newspapers about parents getting into trouble for taking pics of their own kids in the park, I think this is a good example of why life is so different in Tenerife.
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