Halifax Early Childhood School

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Congratulations to our top three finishers and to everyone who participated in the Run Like HECS 5K race! 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

It was a fantastic day filled with fun, community spirit, and plenty of smiles. Thank you to all our runners, families, volunteers, and supporters for making this event such a success!

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Indigenous Learning Resources - Outdoor Learning School & Store Indigenous resources and learning opportunities recommended by Indigenous staff, advisors and partners, and developed by Indigenous authors, educators and organizations. In order to support meaningful positive change, we need to go beyond a day or a month each year, and extend our learning across al...

The American Academy of Pediatrics' new report on digital ecosystems makes one thing clear: today’s media is designed to capture attention and children are growing up in it.

For young kids, that matters. Their brains are still building skills like focus, self-regulation, and learning through real-world interaction.

Screens can help, but they don’t replace relationships.

Children build resilience through everyday moments: waiting, problem-solving and learning to work through small disappointments. If screens become the default, those opportunities shrink.

And it’s not just how much media kids use. It’s what kind they're watching. Fast, short-form content used alone doesn’t support development the way shared, educational content can.

Read more of our take in Beyond the Headlines: https://bit.ly/4sE61Tr