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June 2025 Home and School Newsletter 🍎 POST-AGM Summaries The minutes and feedback summaries from the Annual General Meeting are available on our website at: https://peihsf.ca/agm/   🍎 School Calendar 2025-2026https://www.princeedwardisland.ca/sites/default/files/publications/school_calendar_2025-26_en.pdf  🍎 Local Home & School Elections Plan to hold your local Home & School election of officers in June to allow new executive members ample…

April’s annual general meeting of the P.E.I. Home and School Federation saw attendance soar thanks to strong interest in expert-led workshop topics and keynote speaker Carl Burke. Members heard about the horrors of sextortion, the pros and cons of AI in the classroom, gaming and gambling addictions by youth, and positive behaviour enforcement strategies programs…

Lazy, rude, demanding, self-obsessed, disrespectful. Each generation looks at the next with suspicion, convinced something has gone wrong. But are today’s youth worse than those who came before, or is this just the latest round of an age-old complaint? Consider this scathing critique: “I see no hope for the future of our people if they…

Tackling the Digital Influence on Youth is the focus for P.E.I.’s Home and School Federation’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Saturday, April 12 at the Rodd Charlottetown Hotel. Keynote speaker, Carl H. Burke R.N., who dedicated his career to Health PEI for 32 years, lost his 17-year-old son Harry to sextortion in April 2023. Mr.…

After a hasty but positive implementation of restrictions on cell phone usage in schools this September, the Department of Education and Early Years this January released new guidelines for promoting healthy screen time habits for children. These guidelines offer useful recommendations for limiting sedentary activities such as watching TV or playing video games while encouraging…