Financial supports will double this year for high school students who are eligible to receive the Community Service Bursary. The Community Service Bursary program provides high school students with the opportunity to develop skills, gain work experience, give back to their...
Local artists are working collaboratively with Island teachers to enhance learning and engage students in new and creative ways. There are 14 projects happening Island wide during the 18th year of ArtsSmarts, a national initiative that blends everyday learning with the arts...
Students in PEI’s French schools and French immersion classes will be learning more about the history and stories of the Island’s Acadians when they return to school this fall. About 300 years’ worth of stories, in fact – thanks to the introduction of a new social studies book...
The Island’s best published writing has been nominated for the 2022 Prince Edward Island Book Awards. The awards are presented every two years to recognize authors, editors, and book producers in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, children’s literature and poetry. “The PEI...
The Province is fulfilling its commitment to reinstate an elected school board for the Public Schools Branch (PSB). Amendments to the Education Act were brought forward today in the provincial legislature. “Our children deserve a world-class education system and a key element of...
Prince Edward Island continues to increase access to early learning and child care across the province. More than 230 affordable child care spaces are being added across the province, with five additional early childhood centres receiving an official Early Years Centre...
The legacy and traditions of the Acadians of Prince Edward Island will live forever in the pages of a new book, L'Acadie de l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard : 300 ans d'histoire. This new publication is being introduced into the French curriculum across the province. L'Acadie de l'Île-du...
The Primary Intervention Program (PIP) is an intervention that offers literacy support to Grade three students who are learning French as a second or additional language and who are approaching grade level benchmarks. The instructor works intensively with a group of four students...
Intervention Préventive en Lecture-Écriture (IPLÉ) is the French adaptation of Reading Recovery TM (RR), an early intervention designed to reduce the number of children with reading and writing difficulties within an education system. It identifies first grade students who are at...
The Confederation Centre Public Library will close its doors on Saturday, April 30, to give staff time to pack and prepare for the move to their new location. The current Charlottetown Library has served the community since 1965. This summer, the library is moving to a new...