Plaster fell from the ceiling at a kindergarten in Kalamaria

The municipality is leaning towards temporarily relocating the 6th Kindergarten of Kalamaria after plaster fell from the ceiling, at a time when the kindergarten was not in operation, and the competent technical services determined that extensive work was needed to repair the damage. Yesterday, the Municipality of Kalamaria announced that the 6th Kindergarten of Kalamaria will suspend operations from Friday, 13 November through Tuesday, 17 November 2026, “due to the need to carry out emergency and urgent repair work.”

“Work to fix the problems found at the school was started today by the competent technical service. The repairs will be extensive, which is why the mayor has ordered the kindergarten’s operation to be suspended, and a suitable space has already been found to house the kindergarten temporarily until the work is completed,” Thanos Giannakos, Deputy Mayor for Education, Lifelong Learning and Culture of the Municipality of Kalamaria, told the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ).

“Today I went with the kindergarten’s head teacher and we saw the relocation space, which is a short distance from the school building. It is a bright, clean, safe and functional space,” Mr. Giannakos clarified. He added that “school buildings are inspected constantly, but schools are dynamic organisms,” and that in the case of the 6th Kindergarten, “we have a very beautiful but old building. We had not been informed of any sign of problems in the ceiling, where the plaster came down from. Our response was immediate, and the repair work has already begun. We hope it will be completed as soon as possible so that the children can return to their familiar surroundings.”

In a statement it issued, the Union of Parents’ and Guardians’ Associations of the Municipality of Kalamaria is demanding immediate answers and specific guarantees for the safety of the children. It notes that “the fact that the plaster did not fall when the children would have been gathered inside the kindergarten can only be described as luck.” “The entire school community is in turmoil because, as the outcome shows, not all the necessary and substantive infrastructure work at schools has been carried out. This is not the only school in the country where plaster has fallen; 12 incidents have been recorded since the start of the school year,” the Union states.

Plaster falls and water supply cut off at the 3rd Junior High School of Polichni Meanwhile, plaster also fell from the ceiling between three classrooms at the 3rd Junior High School of Polichni, at a time when the school was not in operation. After an inspection by the technical services of the Municipality of Pavlos Melas, it was decided that classes on Monday will be held via distance learning, and that the repair work will be carried out on Tuesday, which is a school holiday. “A large piece of plaster fell during the night.

Nothing had been visible, we hadn’t noticed any damp or anything similar, but the spot where it fell is between three classrooms, a place where many children gather,” Stavros Tziaferis, a teacher at the school, told ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ. He noted that the school’s water supply had been cut off for three days because of a fault, “with everything that implies for hygiene and for the access of 250 students and 30 teachers to the toilets.” According to the municipality, the school’s water supply has now been restored.