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More than 28,500 elementary students in the region carry out their studies in Spanish and English next year under the initiative '+ Languages' of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Universities.

Specifically, 11,000 will do it for the first time, 4,000 of them in one of 79 schools entering the bilingual program during 2014-2015, within which are three jumillanos centers, the Stone Cross CC, CC St. Anta and CEIP Our Lady of the Assumption, in the initial level.

With the addition of these centers and Primary, 222 are those that offer this teaching increasingly demanded by families and society as a whole.

The Minister of Education, Culture and Universities, Pedro Antonio Sánchez, said today that "for the first time we have opened to all schools the opportunity to join the bilingual program in Primary, if so decided by the educational community and had teachers. This proposal by the '+ Languages' initiative has been very successful with an increase of 55 percent next year and nearly half of primary schools offer bilingual mode, we set a target in two years and almost we have accomplished. "

Also in September there is the possibility that more schools join the bilingual program and continue expanding this mode of teaching that can be tracked and 37 municipalities.

In addition, 44 percent of the towns of the region, half or more of their primary schools are bilingual.

Jumilla, currently has four bilingual schools, CEIP Miguel Hernández, CEIP Carmen Conde, CEIP Mariano Suarez and Prince Philip, to which the three new join next year.

The municipalities with the greatest increase in bilingual schools for next year are Murcia, with 22 new schools and nine Cartagena.

Alhama de Murcia, Cieza, Jumilla, San Pedro del Pintar and add three and Albudeite Yecla, Lorqui Ojós, Villanueva del Segura Rios and Yecla count first bilingual schools.

On the other hand, and to facilitate greater autonomy to schools to adapt teaching to student characteristics and demands of their families, this is the first year in which they can choose the degree of immersion in a foreign language they offer, depending on the subjects taught in English.

Five schools opted for intensive immersion, which means that students can receive up to 80 percent of their classes in English;

and 93 have been chosen to intermediate.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla