Students in Angela Holmstrom's grade 3/4 class at St. Louis School recently received interview training. The class teamed up with Community Support Services to celebrate 
and profile the role that volunteers play in the Community Support Services program. Students will be interviewing the Community Support Services volunteers to celebrate and promote the important contributions they make. Following the interviews, students will be creating volunteer profiles and posters.
Lynn Moffatt, Director of Community Support Services, says the work the students do is important. "There are 177 volunteers with the Community Support Services, contributing their time to the Meals on Wheels program and Pinecrest Home for the Aged. "We could use a lot more volunteers and the work the student do will help celebrate and hopefully encourage more people to volunteer."
To get ready for this project, the school brought in local media experts to help prepare the students to interview volunteers in the community.
Abbie from 89.5 the Lake, Kathleen from The Kenora Daily Miner and News and Rikki from Q104 provided a live interview in front of the class with Lynn Moffatt, Director of Community Support Services and Mariette Martineau, Religious Education Coordinator for the board. In addition to watching the interviews and being able to ask questions, students also learned tips and tricks of the journalism trade and how to ask open-ended questions.
The collaborative learning project is planned to extend to École Ste-Marguerite Bourgeoy to the grade 5 class in a different format to continue school relationships in the community.