Louis Riel School Division switching to full-day kindergarten this year [Video]

To start this school year, kids going into kindergarten will be doing it a little bit differently in one school division.

The Louis Riel School Division announced it will be starting all-day kindergarten in all of its schools.

“(It’s) long overdue that we welcome children into our public schools in this way,” said Christian Michalik, the superintendent and CEO of the school division.

Michalik said the division’s own pilot project and other studies on full-day kindergarten have shown upsides even though it costs more.

Angela Fossay has been doing full-day teaching at Lavallee School for five years. She said she was apprehensive at first, but that thought has since changed.

“I started thinking it was going to be a long day for them, but now that I have done it for a few years, I would never go back to half days,” said Fossay.

She said it’s worth it for the kids.

“At the end of the year, …