Daily Play Breaks

“If you want a child to be attentive and stay on task, and also if you want them to encode the information you’re giving them in their memory, you’ve got to give them regular breaks,”

Dr. Bob Murray, a professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Ohio State University.

Experts recommend about every hour, adults should get up from our desks to stretch, give our eyes a break, and give our brains a chance to reboot. We often return to our tasks more invigorated. So … shouldn’t the same apply to kids in the classroom? That philosophy had been in place in numerous countries around the world. A famous example is the Finnish School system, which ranks systematically higher than the US public school system. Research backs up what teachers are seeing in class; more active, focused and involved kids. Brain imaging has shown that kids learn better after a break for physical activity and unstructured play. We strongly believe that the kids attending Notre École will have a proper environment with the balance between strong and dense academic courses and recess time, establishing early a good way of life.