School heads urged to insist on discipline

Education Minister Louis Galea has urged all school heads to insist on discipline when the academic year starts later this month.

He said school heads should instil discipline in school children from the beginning of the school year and they should ensure that teachers were appropriately dressed and no one smoked or used a mobile phone in class. He also warned parents not to allow their children to take mobile phones to school because they will be confiscated.

Dr Galea made his remarks as he toured three government schools where renovation works are in progress. They are the Vincenzo Bugeja boys secondary school in Sta Venera and the Adelaide Cini and Maria Assunta girls' secondary schools, situated in the same complex in Hamrun.

The school in Sta Venera has been modernised and redecorated, with new facilities including an audio-visual room and a lift.

In view of serious structural problems in two blocks of Adelaide Cini school, the two schools in the Hamrun complex have been restructured so that classes from Forms I to IV will be in Maria Assunta school and Form V classes will use a block in Adelaide Cini school.

Works at the school include modernisation of the administration block, the replacement of some 50 toilets, redecoration of the classrooms and the canteen and modernisation of the laboratories.