Richmond, Danville & Drummondville Community Learning Centre

Join us for our 3rd workshop from our Parent Workshop Series with TDAH Estrie on March 11th at 7pm.

Shout out the wonderful educators who help their students every day! #hookedonschooldays https://youtu.be/oWUMrk3OQpY

Our CLC's community development agents Siu-Min Clc Richmond and Geneviève Clc Coordinator want to show the students of our 4 schools that we are very proud of them. Proud of the efforts they put in everyday! Proud of their resilience during a particularly difficult year! Keep it up! A.D.S Elementary School Drummondville Elementary School Richmond Regional High School St. Francis Elementary school #unmomentpoureux #hookedonschooldays

On this Early Childhood Week, we wish to acknowledge all our partners who collaborate to offer programs and activities for families with little ones in our CLC schools' communities. Thank-you to Case-Mcq, Comité ÉLÉ du Val-Saint-François, CIUSSS de l'Estrie - CHUS, Literacy in Action, Maison de la famille Les Arbrisseaux, La Maison des Familles FamillAction, Townshippers' Association, ValFamille! It is with your support that these early years activities are offered this fall: Richmond & Danville CLC's Mother Goose Program, Online Reading Buddies, online workshop with a speech pathologist, and OT visit to our K4 class at DES.

To our CLC's Kindergarten (K4 & K5) families: we have extended the deadline to sign up for an online reading buddy! Please return the form sent by your teacher before Friday, or fill it out online here: https://forms.gle/4v9nTbhoR1F5aGp18

You can still register to attend this very interesting workshop on language development in a bilingual environment. Simply email our partners at Case-Mcq to register [email protected]

Thanks to all who responded to our call for Volunteer Readers! We are so excited to meet you all at our Volunteer Orientation session this evening over zoom. Learn more about this Online Reading Buddies program we are developing with Case-Mcq, Townshippers' Association and the Comité ÉLÉ du Val-Saint-François by listening to Geneviève Clc Coordinator's interview on CBC Radio: https://www.cbc.ca//15806342-community-learning-centre-see

The Centre for Access to Service in English (Case-MCQ) and our CLC are inviting you to join this special online workshop with speech pathologist Kristy Findlay on November 26th at 7pm. Ms. Findlay specializes in children's speech development in a bilingual environment. Please see the attached flyer for more details. To register please contact Audrey at [email protected]

Last call to join Books to Belly! We need at least one more family to join the workshops starting this Thursday. Open to all families with children 6-12 from ADS and St. Francis! Call/contact Literacy in Action before 12pm noon this Wednesday to make sure you get your grocery box delivered in time. It's free!

To our lifelong learners: don't forget to sign up for the CHEPs workshop this Wednesday! Register with Marie-Lisa Townshippers ([email protected]) to get the link.

QFA's popular Food Farm Forum videoconference series starts up again this evening. For the foreseeable future, these videoconferences will no longer be offered here at RRHS but you can access them in the comfort of your own home. Check out who's presenting this evening!

On Saturday September 26th, Townshippers' Association will be hosting an interactive online workshop called The Art of Reading Together, which will help people (parents, grandparents, babysitters, community volunteers, etc.) develop new skills to make story time with children more fun and educational. This workshop is open to people from all across the Townships and will take place on zoom. If you are interested you can register before Wednesday September 23rd by contacting Michelle Lepitre at [email protected]

As the new school year is starting up, we thought it would be fun look back at how active the Richmond, Danville and Drummondville CLC and its partners were in 2019-20. This school year will certainly look different but, together, we will continue to support our students, their families and our community.

The Richmond, Danville & Drummondville Community Learning Centre is a proud to participate in the Culture for Seniors partnership project in the Val-Saint-François and Les Sources. Watch this great video Townshippers' Association to find out more about the project! https://youtu.be/XIOrwN8imPQ

This September, we will miss having our lifelong learners coming into RRHS for their monthly CHEPs workshops with Townshippers' Association, but we're glad the opportunity to connect and learn online is still available to our community. If you have questions on how to use zoom (or what it is!), don't hesitate to contact the very friendly and helpful Marie-Lisa Townshippers ([email protected]).

What a perfect day it was for a Welcome to School picnic for our St. Francis kindergarten students. Soon-to-be students and their parent got to listen to a story told by their teacher, visit their classroom, participate in activities in our school yard and enjoy a picnic lunch. Many thanks to Maison de la famille Les Arbrisseaux and the St Francis kindergarten team and staff for collaborating together on this transition activity! The activity was also supported by an SEL project grant from @LEARN.

6 more sleeps until the first day of school! Naître et grandir has a terrific article with 6 tips to prepare your child's return to school. You can read it or listen to it in English or French here: https://naitreetgrandir.com//6-tips-prepare-your-child-re/

Don't forget to sign up for the online parent workshop about children and nutrition. There are 2 times to choose from on August 26th. Email [email protected] to register

Thank-you to all the partners who made last night's Bedtime and Sleep Workshop possible, especially to Townshippers' Association for organizing it. You can visit https://learnquebec.ca/fr/goodnightbag to download two great tools developed by the workshop's resource partner, LEARN. (Free colouring book and bedtime routine checklist - all bilingual!)

Still time left to register! Parent workshop about bedtime and sleep offered virtually tomorrow evening. Is your bedtime routine not working (or non-existent)? What do kids really need for sleep? This workshop could be particularly helpful for parents of Kindergarten and Pre-schoolers. To register send an email to [email protected]... This workshop was originally scheduled to take place at ADS this spring and is now open online to anyone!

Join us on Wednesday, August 26, 2020 for a Parenting Webinar on Returning to School Post COVID - How Parents of Teens (and Pre-Teens) Can Help Their Children... Feel Safe and Self-Assured. This webinar is in partnership with QFHSA - Quebec Federation of Home and School Associations Space is limited to 20 people in each session so book early! A waiting list will be maintained for a potential 3rd session. You must register in advance for one of the 2 options below: Option 1: 10:00 - 11:30 a.m. Register in advance: bit.ly/ReturntoSchoolSession1 Option 2: 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. Register in advance: bit.ly/ReturntoSchoolSession2 #15yrsstrong #TeachLearnHelp | www.learnquebec.ca

Parent workshop about nutrition and children offered virtually on August 26th at two different times. To register send an email to [email protected]

Looking for something special to share with your child before school starts? Check out these free workshop opportunities with English-speaking Quebec artists! (Fun Fact: Our CLC schools had the opportunity to work ELAN Quebec's ArtEd Initiatives artists in our CLC schools these past two years - awesome experiences!)

Parent Workshop on Bedtime routines and sleep for children on Tuesday August 18th @ 630pm with Charity Kerrigan. To register for this free online activity email Marie-Lisa Jolin at [email protected].

Don't forget, the next free book distribution takes place this Thursday in Richmond! Available to all teens. Take a look here for some of the books available: https://msreid.libib.com/i/rrhs-knights-read# For more info, visit the Facebook event page: Summer Knights READ: Free books for high school students

HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS: Pick-up your summer reading in ASBESTOS this Thursday from 1pm - 3pm ! How does it work? 1. Check out this link to take a look at what books are available. Other books will be continually added as we have also received some great new donations: https://msreid.libib.com/i/rrhs-knights-read#... 2. Show up between 1pm - 3pm at the CJE in Asbestos (557 1re Av) where we will have a table set up outside*. 3. You can then consult the updated list or ask Ms. Reid for recommendations before telling us which book(s) you would like to receive. 4. Go home, read and enjoy :) 5. You can keep the book, pass it to a friend, or bring it back to us at another pick-up date or at RRHS at the end of the summer! Questions? We'd love to hear from you! [email protected]

Let the Townshippers' Association know which legal information workshops you would be interested in!

First distribution is tomorrow! Are you a high school student? Come by to choose a book or two for your summer reading - free! Here are some of the books that will be available: https://msreid.libib.com/i/rrhs-knights-read See you at the CJE on rue Principal in Richmond tomorrow, 1pm - 3pm!

We've teamed up with some partners this summer to provide FREE ENGLISH BOOKS to Richmond Regional High School students (or any high school student). Lots of used and brand new books available to be given away, check them out here: https://msreid.libib.com/i/rrhs-knights-read First distribution date is this Thursday in Richmond, with more dates in Asbestos and Warwick coming up. Click on the event page for all the details! If you have books to donate, we would gratefully accep...t them at any of our distribution events. There will be a box available for them to be dropped off, where they will remain quarantined until the next distribution event. Please share! #RRHSknightsREAD

Brilliant Labs is offering #FREE virtual #STEAM summer camps! Learn everything from coding your own games using Scratch to solving everyday problems with materi...als you find around the house! Sign up is available throughout the summer, visit https://www.brilliantlabs.ca/virtualcamps to sign up and for more details.

Our Care Packages project is coming to an end as the summer season begins. We are very proud of the strong partnerships that allowed this project to take place. La Maison des Familles FamillAction and the Richmond, Danville & Drummondville Community Learning Centre want to thank each of the partners and contributors who supported the project in one way or another. We also want to thank everyone who participated in the project by offering a Care Package to someone else or by a...sking for one for themselves. Thanks to all of you we distributed 160 care packages. This benefited 140 preschool aged children, 157 elementary school aged children, 77 teenagers and 253 adults. We are so proud and grateful to see how our community came together during this difficult time! Alors que l'été débute, notre projet de Trousses réconfort se termine. Nous sommes très fiers des partenariats qui ont permis de réaliser ce projet. La Maison des Familles FamillAction et le Centre scolaire communautaire Richmond, Danville et Drummondville tiennent à remercier tous les partenaires et contributeurs qui ont soutenu ce projet d'une façon ou d'une autre. Nous tenons également à remercier tous ceux qui ont participé au projet en offrant une trousse à quelqu'un d'autre ou en demandant une pour eux-même. Grâce à vous nous avons distribué 160 trousses pour un total de 140 enfants d'âge préscolaire, 157 enfants d'âge primaire, 77 adolescents et 253 adultes. Nous sommes très fiers et reconnaissants de voir à quel point les membres de notre communauté se sont soutenus les uns les autres pendant les moments difficiles que nous avons tous traversés! See more

You can still ask for a Care Package until June 20th! The last deliveries will be made on June 26th. Simply fill out this form and we'll take care of the rest: https://forms.gle/3Zdsy8Fv4Pnzogg17 Vous pouvez demander une trousse réconfort jusqu'au 20 juin! Les dernières livraisons se feront le 26 juin. Vous n'avez qu'à cliquer sur le lien pour remplir le formulaire et on s'occupe du reste : https://forms.gle/3Zdsy8Fv4Pnzogg17

Do you know a student between 14-16 years looking for a first job experience? Opportunities to work at Richmond Regional High School, Wales Home, Marche Champetre de Melbourne and more available through the CJE Richmond. Students who successfully complete the 80-hour internship will receive a $500 bursary.

The Care Package project continues through the month of June in the MRC des Sources! Ask for one for your family or for someone else. Simply fill out this form: https://forms.gle/rHQE4mKA3sbsHJBy7 Le projet des Trousses réconfort se poursuit en juin dans la MRC des Sources! Faites une demande pour vous ou pour une autre famille en remplissant le formulaire suivant : https://forms.gle/rHQE4mKA3sbsHJBy7