Educational Success

Summer Strategy

Supporting and accompanying the educational success of young people during the summer

Although beneficial for most, the summer break sometimes creates issues for some students.

The most vulnerable students – allophones, those from disadvantaged backgrounds, and those with learning difficulties – sometimes return to school with a loss of learning known as “the summer slide”. Youth who have little access to books and informal enrichment activities during the summer return to school with a delay that can have a significant impact on the following school year and even on their long-term educational success.

Mitigating the summer slide among at-risk students

This infographic outlines the key fundamentals for reducing summer learning loss. 

You will find more information on the groups of students most at risk, strategies and examples of fun literacy and numeracy activities.

Some statistics

18

projects financed in summer 2022.

3 000

young people reached in summer 2022.

120 000 $

invested in local projects in 2022.

Summer strategy to support the educational success

As part of its concerted regional strategy to support and accompany the educational success of young people in Estrie during the summer, R3USSIR, in collaboration with its partners, has put in place a concerted action plan to counter the summer slide phenomenon.

Two types of approaches have been targeted for development and deployment according to this strategy:

  1. The implementation of targeted measures for young people identified in consultation with school service centers
  2. The implementation of universal measures, aimed at everyone

Specific objectives:

  1. Introduce fun literacy and numeracy activities in youth and family venues and day camps (non-targeted, universal approach)
  2. Encourage families to incorporate daily reading practices into their summer family routine
  3. Offer specific activities to small groups of youth targeted by the school community (targeted approach, high intensity, regular frequency)
  4. Raise awareness and equip partners regarding the importance of maintaining learning during the summer
  5. Identify the benefits of summer projects

The educational dimensions that guide the development of these projects are:

  • Literacy, reading awareness
  • Numeracy, mathematics awareness
  • Sociolinguistic integration or French immersion
  • Specific activities
  • Sociocultural activities
  • Activities promoting motor skills
  • Activities promoting psychosocial skills

Partners involved

Nearly twenty partners have been mobilized and gotten involved in the development and deployment of the summer strategy. Here is the complete list:

  • Association des groupes de jeunes de l’Or Blanc
  • Bibliothèque Françoise-Maurice de Coaticook
  • Carrefour jeunesse-emploi du Granit
  • Carrefour jeunesse-emploi du Haut-Saint-François
  • Centre de pédiatrie sociale en communauté Le Tandem
  • Centre de réadaptation en déficience intellectuelle et en troubles envahissants du développement de l’Estrie
  • Centre de services scolaire de la Région-de-Sherbrooke
  • Centre de services scolaire des Hauts-Cantons
  • Centre de services scolaire des Sommets
  • Collège Frontière
  • Concertation ValFamille
  • Fondation pour les élèves du Centre de services scolaire de la Région-de-Sherbrooke
  • Richmond, Danville & Drummondville Community Learning Center
  • Commission scolaire Eastern Townships
  • Maison des jeunes de l’Or Blanc
  • La Relève du Haut-Saint-François
  • Phelps Aide Phelps Helps
  • Soutien aux familles réfugiées et immigrantes de l’Estrie
  • Technoscience Estrie

In our toolkit

THE SUMMER SLIDE

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

Interactive Reading and Literacy Games

Practical tools
Educational Success
Fun reading activities and literacy games for camp counsellors and others running activities about literacy.

Training Introduction to Interactive Reading

Webinars and events
Educational Success
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...

News and events

6 Nov 2023

Events
R3USSIR réunit près de 75 acteurs afin d’échanger sur les enjeux et les priorités en éducation dans la MRC de Brome-Missisquoi
Read more

31 Oct 2023

Events
Les acteurs de la Haute-Yamaska se mobilisent pour échanger sur les enjeux et les priorités en éducation
Read more

27 Sep 2023

Events
À GO, on lit! au Salon du livre de l'Estrie, du 12 au 15 octobre prochain
Read more

12 Sep 2023

News
JeConcilie.com, version améliorée!
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11 Sep 2023

Events
INVITATION : Rencontres d’échanges autour des enjeux liés à l’éducation dans les territoires de Brome-Missisquoi et de la Haute-Yamaska
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8 Sep 2023

Job
OFFRE D'EMPLOI – Agent.e de concertation et de liaison
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5 Sep 2023

News
Le Réseau québécois pour la réussite éducative lance une microcampagne numérique sur la conciliation études-travail
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3 Sep 2023

News
Mission accomplie pour notre stratégie estivale
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22 Jun 2023

News
Calendrier des congés scolaires 2023-2024 maintenant disponible
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20 Jun 2023

News
Stratégie estivale : Nos partenaires se mobilisent pour soutenir la réussite éducative des jeunes en période estivale
Read more

16 Jun 2023

News
Aujourd'hui, soyons fiers de nos finissant.e.s!
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16 May 2023

News
Le 16 juin, célébrons nos finissantes et nos finissants!
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Questions?

Contact Karine Plouffe, Liaison and Development Officer, responsible for literacy and summer activities.

 

karine.plouffe@reussirestrie.ca
819 868-3100, ext. 56007

Projects supported in Estrie

R3USSIR supported 18 grassroots initiatives reaching more than 3,000 young people in Estrie for summer 2022.