Education committee inspects four Famagusta schools over buildings and staffing
MPs visited four schools in the Famagusta district on Friday, with caretaker shortages and a lack of outdoor shelter highlighted at Liopetri’s first primary school.
Liopetri, Cyprus. The House education committee inspected four Famagusta district schools on Friday to review building defects, staff shortages and infrastructure requirements. Chrysanthos Savvides, the committee chairman and Diko MP, said members wanted to assess conditions in person.
Four schools visited
The delegation’s itinerary covered Liopetri’s first primary school, both Deryneia’s second primary school and Deryneia’s second nursery school, and the peace and freedom secondary school in Deryneia and Sotira.
Liopetri facilities and staffing
Savvides said the Liopetri school occupies a building dating to 1966 but its facilities were generally well maintained. He reported no overcrowding, prefabricated classrooms or educational difficulties linked to language.
However, he said the school board had too few caretakers. The school also lacked a shelter, leaving pupils unable to spend their breaks comfortably outside in either winter or summer.
Follow-up and local history
Savvides said the committee would pursue extra staffing for the school board and carry on with visits to other Deryneia schools to establish what further problems existed.
He also commended the school for activities that help preserve local history for younger generations.
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