From shorts and sandals to capes and rain boots. The heat and rain were the main features of the return to school this Monday, to the point that in around 100 schools in Montsià and Baix Ebre, school activities exceptionally ended at 2:00 p.m. due to a meteorological hazard alert. Just minutes before Civil Protection sent an ES-ALERT alert to mobile phones in the area due to the risk of torrential rain, it was announced that school bus service from the affected schools would be brought forward, but that the schools and secondary schools would not close until all students had been picked up.

"The main focus of our government is to strengthen learning" and "the priority of this term is to improve educational outcomes." These two phrases—with minor variations—are the ones that the Regional Minister of Education, Esther Niubó, usually utters almost every time she is asked about her department's most immediate objectives. In recent weeks, another element has been added to this combination: managing the complexity of classrooms in which One third of students have specific educational support needs.

Now yes, a month and a half after proposing it to the unions, The Department of Education has confirmed that classes will begin next school year on September 8th. Specifically, preschool, primary, and secondary school students will return to classrooms on Monday the 8th, while high school and vocational training classes will begin after the National Day, on Friday, September 12th. However, sports, fine arts, and design courses will begin even later, on September 15th, and adult education centers and official language schools will begin on the 22nd. This was confirmed this Thursday by the regional minister, Esther Niubó, during a standing session with journalists in the Catalan Parliament.

First clash between unions and Education since the PSC entered the Palau de la Generalitat. This Tuesday the ministry led by Esther Niubó has put on the table the proposal of the always controversial start date of the school year, and has already encountered union opposition.