Yesterday, the City Executive Council unanimously approved a proposal to open a new preschool at Ármúli 6 that will operate as part of Múlaborg Preschool, which is housed at Ármúli 8a. The preschool will accommodate 60 children in the new facility, which will be a welcome addition for families with young children in the city. The new preschool is expected to open next spring.
New divisions will open in January at Gullborg Preschool in Vesturbær and Funaborg in Grafarvogur. This expansion adds 27 openings at Gullborg and 24 in the new forest house at Funaborg.
The first two Ævintýraborg preschools have arrived to Iceland, and crews are now working on installation, site preparation, and construction. Enrollment began recently, and the new opening timelines have been announced.
Ævintýraborg are preschools in portable facilities well-suited for modern early childhood education that provide a positive environment for children and staff. The City plans to establish four such schools. In total, they will house 340 children, helping meet the urgent demand for new preschool openings in Reykjavík. Three of them will accept children from 12 months to six years old, while one at Vörðuskóli will accept children from 12 months to three years old.
Work is now underway on exterior and interior finishing at Ævintýraborg at Eggertsgata. That preschool is scheduled to open in early February.
At Ævintýraborg on Nauthólsvegur, the building permit application has been approved and work at the site is scheduled to begin this year. The school there is now expected to open in late March, a few weeks later than originally scheduled.
Ævintýraborg facilities in Vogabyggð and at Vörðuskóli are under development, with openings planned for next spring.
The directors of the Ævintýraborg preschools are communicating regularly with the families of children who have been assigned openings to provide them with updates.
All these projects relate to the Bridging the Gap action plan the City Council approved in November 2018, which aims to increase preschool openings so the City can offer preschool to children as young as 12 months by the end of 2023. The development consists primarily of building new preschools but also expansions to existing preschools, new preschool units in portable facilities and increasing enrollment at private preschools.