Students & Parents

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Family Fun Night Workshops

http://www.region.peel.on.ca/childcar/literacy/

The Region of Peel's Children's Services offers a series of FREE FAMILY FUN NIGHTS for children age 0-6 yrs, which are held at various Dufferin-Peel Catholic District elementary schools across Peel.

Family Fun Night is a series of 12 workshops that give parents the skills to help their child learn early reading, numeracy, and writing skills. Parents and children work together on activities that are fun and help children learn. It's a great family time to focus on early learning and help prepare children for school.

Numerous trained community volunteers run the Family Fun Night sessions. Volunteers are early childhood educators, teachers and other community professionals who are experienced and trained in early literacy.

In each session, volunteers give parents ideas on how to incorporate learning into every day living and regular home activities. Each workshop has stories, songs, a snack time, and an activity for families to work on together. Parents that have attended these workshops during the last two years have reported they now read to their children more often, they have more reading materials at home and they have increased the amount of educational TV they watch with their child.

The following Dufferin-Peel Catholic schools are hosting this program this fall: 

Bishop Scalabrini

Cardinal Newman

Good Shepherd

Guardian Angels

Holy Cross

Holy Spirit

Lester B. Pearson

Our Lady of Fatima

Our Lady of Providence

Pope John Paul II

Queen of Heaven

Sacred Heart

St. Anne

St. Barbara

St. Basil

St. Christopher

St. Gregory

St. Herbert

St. Hilary

St. Joachim

St. John Bosco

St. John Fisher

St. John of the Cross

St. Joseph (Brampton)

St. Josephine Bakhita

St. Mary

St. Matthew

St. Rita

St. Simon Stock

It is anticipated that the following schools may, in addition, host the program in the spring:

Blessed Trinity

St. Gerard

St. Joseph’s (Streetsville)

St. Louis

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