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Ensure that your child does 30 minutes of homework, even if they have no homework

To help your child become an autonomous and resilient learner:

Ensure that your child does 30 minutes of homework, even if they have no homework!

To create good work and study habits, your child should do at least 30 minutes of school work, six days a week. So, even if you child has no assigned homework, they should spend their homework time doing one of the following things:

Reviewing PowerPoints from Science or Social Studies courses;
Doing some of the practice exercises found on Pluriportail, in any subject.

Encourage your child to develop and maintain healthy eating habits

To help your child become an autonomous and resilient learner:

Encourage your child to develop and maintain healthy eating habits

As they say, “you are what you eat.”

To help your child feel better, have more consistent energy levels, and perform better in school:

Encourage your child to eat a wide variety of fresh foods from all food groups;
Encourage your child to drink lots of water throughout the day;
Limit the amount of sweet drinks and snacks your child consumes (such as juice, soft drinks, cookies, granola bars, puddings);
Limit the number of processed foods your child consumes (such as chips, flavoured crackers, instant noodles, and hot dogs), as they are usually very high in salt and artificial flavourings and colourings.

Develop an optimal and predictable after-school routine

To help your child become an autonomous and resilient learner:

Develop an optimal and predictable after-school routine

Provide your child with a quiet and comfortable space for doing homework, that you can easily supervise, if necessary;
Help your child discover an activity that helps him/her release stress, whether it be reading, music or exercise, and make sure he/she spends time doing it every day;
Limit the amount of time your child spends in front of a screen, whether it be a smartphone, a tablet, a TV or a video game; these activities do not help the brain relax or release stress.

CHANGING EDUCATION PARADIGMS

In this TED talk, Sir Ken Robinson presents an education approach that is geared to the 21st century learner.

http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_changing_education_paradigms

A look into Centennial Academy, a unique school in Quebec

Centennial Academy was founded in 1969 by a group of teachers who believed they could do more for kids with learning challenges. Five decades later, the school claims it has now become a leader in helping students succeed, even beyond academics.

Student Interview

“Shape Schools to Meet Student Needs” Response letter by Angela Burgos.

In response to the latest provincial budget, our Head of School talks about solutions to reduce drop-out rates in today’s schools.

Click here to view the article

Free Public Lecture “Shaping schools to meet the needs of students”

Free Public Lecture at Centennial entitled “Shaping schools to meet the needs of students.” It will be a unique opportunity to hear two highly-respected child development specialists, Dr. Gilles Julien and Mrs. Lison Daoust, talk about how schools are adapting – and should adapt – to better serve young people with learning challenges.

We encourage you to attend and we strongly recommend that you invite friends and colleagues whom you think might be interested to know more about this topic and about Centennial Academy. The details of the event are below. Kindly confirm your presence by email: mallaham@centennial.qc.ca or via our Facebook event.

Thank You!

On this National Philanthropy Day, we would like to take this opportunity to THANK all of our wonderful donors, parent volunteers and staff members for their time, dedication and support.
You are a large part of what makes Centennial Academy such a wonderful place.