Toolkit

Here are some activity ideas to do with your children at home during the summer holidays to keep their brains stimulated and make a difference, all while having fun.

Here is an infographic presenting turnkey activities for parents, if you want to make a difference for our young people during summer.

Premises: Dropping out or failing at school does not happen overnight. It’s the result of a trajectory during which a multitude of factors and players influence the young person’s path.

Aim of the reference document produced by Réunir Réussir (R2): support IRCs and their partners in drawing up their regional-local action plan. More specifically, it should make it possible to estimate the potential of the actions deployed and their effects on young people, based on the needs identified.

It also aims to provide field players with a solid foundation for their actions, enabling them to make informed choices when planning and implementing them, without imposing any particular course of action or procedure.

Aim of the fact sheets: highlight each of the determinants of educational success, with evidence-based data and courses of action to support the power to act of partners working to promote educational success.

The JeConcilie.com work-study balance diagnostic tool is an online questionnaire that can be completed by the young person, either alone or in the presence of a professional, an employer or a parent.

It is an intervention and awareness-raising tool on school-work-family balance. It gives young people a quick overview of their situation in terms of studies, work and health. Depending on their profile, a number of practical tips, strategies and avenues for reflection are offered.

It also provides education, community and health and social services professionals with a practical tool to help young people reflect on their work-study balance, so as to increase their chances of obtaining a qualifying diploma.

Infographic explaining the summer slide phenomenon and how to mitigate its effects for at-risk students and increase their chances of success.

Fun reading activities and literacy games for camp counsellors and others running activities about literacy.

As part of the Summer Slide project, the Réseau québécois pour la réussite éducative has partnered with Frontier College to offer a series of webinars to community-based youth workers on the topic of facilitating reading. This webinar introduces the basics of facilitation. Note that the webinar is only available in French, but the PPT is in English.

This poster is designed for educational childcare services (SGÉE) and school staff, as well as for community members from the health and social services network and the general community. It is a useful popularization tool for developing a common vision of the educational programs offered to children in SGÉE and kindergarten for 4- and 5-year-olds. It brings together common elements from the Ministère de la Famille‘s Accueillir la petite enfance program and the Ministère de l’Éducation‘s preschool education cycle program. The garden metaphor is used to illustrate the cohesion and continuity of these programs. Feel free to use it in your interventions with families whose children will be transitioning into kindergarten to address the aspects covered in these two educational programs.

This placemat, designed for parents of 4-year-olds, aims to smooth the road into kindergarten with ideas for activities and learning that will support the school transition. One side of the placemat illustrates what a child needs in order to be ready for kindergarten. The other side is a “Look and Find” game that encourages children to develop their skills. The purpose of the placemat is to encourage parent-child discussions about starting school in a playful way, and to explain to and reassure the parent about expectations in order to reduce the pressure on both them and the child.