Those interested can watch how the new school in Ondřejov is being built online
/PHOTO GALLERY/ The construction of a new elementary school with a budget exceeding half a billion crowns was started in the middle of summer in Ondřejov in Prague-East. This is a so-called union school – it is not built by one municipality alone, but is a joint project of a union of municipalities that have joined together for this purpose – and together with Ondřejov, Kaliště and Zvánovice also joined the party.
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From the start of the construction of a new elementary school in Ondřejov, Prague-east.
| Photo: KÚ Central Bohemian Region
“They are fighters,” the Governor of the Central Bohemian Region Petra Pecková (STAN), who is almost a neighbor: she lives in nearby Mnichovice, not only declared but also posted on Twitter. She said this in connection with the ceremony associated with the tapping of the foundation stone, which appeared on Friday, September 30. On a construction site where large-scale earth movements are already visible. “A year and a half of construction, six years of preparation. When we first sat over the visualization, I thought to myself that if three small municipalities in the east of Prague could build this, it would be a miracle. And it is,” she stated. On Facebook, she added other words reflecting her enthusiasm: “It will be a beautiful school.”
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The project, which actually started with the acquisition of land back in 2008, long before the establishment of the voluntary association of municipalities in mid-2017, now represents a school with two pavilions with a capacity of 540 pupils, which will have eighteen general classes, nine specialist classes, four rooms for the group and more facilities in the form of a gym or a dining room with a kitchen. All this should cost 570 million crowns, while a significant portion of the necessary money was obtained through subsidies. Even so, the share of the association of municipalities represents an astronomical amount: 94 million crowns. Even with the inclusion of savings – to school has been saved for a long time – the construction cannot be done without a loan. About how action for region this is confirmed, among other things, by the fact that it offers an overview of what is happening on the construction site in a live broadcast webcam. Opening? This is expected already in September 2024.
The union school is not new in the vicinity of Prague. For example, in Przezletice, also in Prague-East, a large school built as a joint project of the municipalities of Przezletice, Podolanka and Jenštejn is nearing completion. Hejtmanka Pecková regardless of the support that there are quite a few such schools, large and completely newly built, in the Central Bohemia region. “And many other smaller ones—extensions, additions, extensions,” she noted. With the fact that it is necessary to try to restore the subsidy titles of the state.