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Annual program gives students in Grade 1 a free book
2022-12-16
This week, Grade 1 students across the province will receive their own copy of the book, Fast Friends, written by Heather M. O’Connor, illustrated by Claudia Dávila and published by Scholastic Canada.
TD Grade One Book Giveaway Program is an annual initiative, supported by the Public Library...
Prince Edward Island reaches $20-a-day child care
2022-12-16
Fees for parents have been reduced and salaries for staff increased at Early Years Centres (EYCs) across the province.
This fall, parents and guardians with children in designated EYCs saw child care fees reduced to $20 per day.
Staff salaries at EYCs also increased as part of a coordinated...
DELF Language Proficiency – Student Exam Registration
2022-12-02
December 18, 2023 - Registration for the DELF scolaire 2024 is now closed.
The DELF is an official diploma awarded by the French national ministry of education. The DELF is available in 175 countries and administered by more than 1000 authorized centres, including 40 in Canada...
Student Enrolment, K-12, 2022-2023
2022-11-21
This document shows Prince Edward Island public and private school enrolment numbers, by school and grade, for the 2022-2023 school year.
Dianne Hicks Morrow: Poet Laureate 2013-2016
2022-11-16
Dianne Hicks Morrow was appointed Poet Laureate in January 2013, serving until January 2016.
The Devil Sends
The truck dumps topsoil on the grass
at the end of our long clay lane,
the place the west wind burns by August.
Barefoot I jump in the loamy earth,
decide to make a rock garden.
My...
Hugh MacDonald: Poet Laureate 2009-2013
2022-11-16
Hugh MacDonald was appointed Poet Laureate in December 2009, serving until January 2013.
At Merton’s Hermitage
Five poets sit
in a sort of symmetry
our awkward placement of hands
reading like young actors
unused to the stage
suspended somewhere between
giddiness and serenity.
How like boys...
David Helwig: Poet Laureate 2008-2009
2022-11-16
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, branches in ivory...
Frank Ledwell: Poet Laureate 2004-2007
2022-11-16
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 the surf’s...
John Smith: Poet Laureate 2002-2004
2022-11-16
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 at midsummer...
Statement by Minister of Education and Lifelong Learning Natalie Jameson congratulating newly elected School Board Trustees
2022-11-16
Natalie Jameson, Minister of Education and Lifelong Learning issued the following statement:
“I would like to extend my sincere congratulations to the newly elected school board trustee for the Public Schools Branch and La Commission scolaire de langue française.
This government made a promise...