Partners School Newsletter June 2015

June 10, 2015

Summer, too, is for learning, but it doesn’t have to be highly structured learning, says Martin Kilbridge, principal of Siena Catholic Academy in Brighton.

It’s important to have a “general engagement of the mind,” he says, but taking a break is part

of what summer is all about, “as long as it’s not all video games.” (Some time on video games,

however, is just fine, he adds.)

Balance is essential in finding ways to help children actively learn all summer long, and

avoid the so-called “summer slide”—the tendency of students to regress, especially in math

skills, but sometimes in reading as well, during idle summer vacations.