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Keeping Students Safe
Safe Internet Use Children and teens spend a great deal of time online. As a parent or caregiver, you are the best person to help your child stay safe online. Talk to your children about what they should and should not do online. The internet is an amazing resource but it is...
Parent Engagement: How to get involved in your child's education
Parents have a great influence on student achievement. Parent engagement in schools and learning make PEI schools better places to learn and grow. School councils and home and school associations All schools have school councils or home and school associations. Getting involved...
John Smith: Poet Laureate 2002-2004
John Smith was appointed PEI’s first poet laureate in December 2002, serving until December 2004. It is unbroken It is unbroken though forsaken, set in the tilt of trees toward the prevailing sun. Not lost, though unregarded, spoken in buried syllables. Now it rises, a slow star...
Frank Ledwell: Poet Laureate 2004-2007
Frank Ledwell was appointed Poet Laureate in December 2004, serving until December 2007. He died on August 14, 2008, at the age of 78. Tranquility When our children have gone at last, we’ll go and live by the ocean shore on the far side of the lake. We’ll cock our ears to catch...
David Helwig: Poet Laureate 2008-2009
David Helwig was appointed Poet Laureate in January 2008, serving until December 2009. Negatives A monochrome adventuring: the chemicals spread on polymer and exposed to a flash of light hatch this peephole’s-worth of look, but glimpsed in reverse, black snow, slate skin...