Toolkit

Bookmark leading to the “Reinvent Your Summer” activities, which offer fun and educational daily challenges for families, aimed at maintaining the joy of learning during the holidays.

Examples of challenges for “Reinvent Your Summer”:

• Reading and writing: Create a journal of activities, write a weekly challenge list, or organize a book-themed scavenger hunt.
  Creative activities: Decorate an achievement jar and add an item for each completed challenge.
  Outdoor/physical activities: Create physical challenges based on the alphabet.
  Cooking and discovery: Cook as a family or write recipes.

These challenges are part of an effort to prevent the “summer slide,” helping children stay intellectually engaged. Printable resources, are sometimes included in these initiatives to encourage reading.

This summer, challenge yourself to engage in a daily reading and numeracy activity with your children!

Examples of challenges for “Reinvent Your Summer”:

• Reading and writing: Create a journal of activities, write a weekly challenge list, or organize a book-themed scavenger hunt.
  Creative activities: Decorate an achievement jar and add an item for each completed challenge.
  Outdoor/physical activities: Create physical challenges based on the alphabet.
  Cooking and discovery: Cook as a family or write recipes.

These challenges are part of an effort to prevent the “summer slide,” helping children stay intellectually engaged. Printable resources, are sometimes included in these initiatives to encourage reading.

In the spring of 2024, the Collectif estrien 0-5 ans and R3USSIR undertook a consultation with parents of children aged 0-8 to better grasp their current needs associated with parenting. The needs they expressed
were classified into six broad categories. In May 2024, an event bringing together parents and stakeholders helped pinpoint promising avenues for collective action to better support parents in the Eastern Townships. This document summarizes the action avenues identified in each category

In 2019, in light of the concerning results of the Québec Survey of Child Development in Kindergarten (QSCDK), the Collectif estrien 0-5 ans and R3USSIR established the Charte estrienne Voir grand pour nos enfants. The first principle of this charter is to recognize and support parents as the primary allies in children’s development. With this in mind, the Collectif estrien 0-5 ans and R3USSIR decided to reach out to parents to find out more about their parental needs.

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.

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.