in Brest, town is organising crèches in colleges the place the variety of college students is reducing | EUROtoday

It remains to be written “Jean-Macé nursery school” on the wall, however the glass entrance door provides a glimpse of staff busy on a renovation website, on this December morning, within the metropolis heart of Brest (Finistère). The three lecture rooms have given option to partitions nonetheless with out paint, baggage of cement litter the ground and the sharp sound of drills rings out at common intervals. Soon, the completely different areas will discover their new capabilities: right here, a dormitory for the little ones, there, an enormous motor expertise room, there once more a kitchen. Named “Heolig” and managed by the mutualist union Alv’Heol, this new crèche will accommodate 34 infants from March 2026.

Nursery college has not disappeared, nonetheless. She was transferred just a few meters away, on the opposite aspect of the playground, to the premises of the elementary college which had turn into too spacious with the drop within the variety of college students. Between 2015 and 2025, the college group misplaced practically 135 college students and now welcomes fewer than 200. The dad and mom encountered that morning are fairly optimistic concerning the future crèche. “If this can make the school sustainable”says a mom who hurries on after dropping off her youngster.

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