NSD running 3rd Annual Summer Reading Program
Posted on June 15
Left to right: Doreen Batchelor, Dr. Mary Jackson School Principal and Janette Cavanaugh, Division Principal, Literacy
Northland School Division (NSD) is pleased to be running its 3rd Annual Summer Reading Program. The purpose of the program is to provide NSD students with high-quality reading materials they can read over the summer.
“Many of our communities do not have libraries and we want our students to have access to books,” Janette Cavanaugh, Division Principal Literacy. “It is well documented in the research that the summer reading slump is significant for many students. Our students deserve the access to these books so that we can mitigate the effect of the summer reading slump. Our teachers, staff, and students work so hard during the school year to raise their reading levels. We do not want to lose ground.”
The Summer Reading Program is funded by Cenovus Energy which covers the cost of books. NSD school communities receive several hundred books to distribute over the summer. Many communities place books in health, youth and recreation facilities. The program is operating in 20 out of 21 NSD school communities and in three Kee Tas Kee Now Tribal Council Education Authority (KTCEA) school communities (Cadotte Lake, Atikameg and Loon River). Fort McKay School (NSD) is involved in another summer reading initiative.
For information about the Summer Reading Program please contact Janette Cavanaugh at 780-219-3105 or janette.cavanaugh@nsd61.ca.