Pear Tree Elementary Was Featured in BC Parent Magazine!

[...] "What many schools get wrong is that academics are only part of the puzzle. You have to educate kids' socio-emotional sides: their feelings, their relationships with others, and their relationship with themselves. It's important to develop a positive self-image." Romani [co-founder and co-director] says the final part of the 'whole child' puzzle is a child's physical well-being. "If you neglect a kid's physical education and nutrition, it completely undermines all the other work that you are doing with that child. It's no good trying to nurture a child with great academics and a stable emotional level if the child isn't eating properly, because then they're constantly either hyper or lethargic, because their body isn't getting what it needs. Kids need an outlet to burn off their energy and a chance to get a proper physical education." [...]

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