Sharing the love of a good book will have plenty of benefits for a group of Warrnambool aged care residents and local school pupils.
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Lyndoch Living and Our Lady Help of Christians Primary School are strengthening ties through the Mini Vinnies program.
Through the program, pupils will be paired up with residents to learn about their life and interests. With help from their teacher, the youngsters will then choose books they think their partner will enjoy and read them together.
Lyndoch Living’s Audrey Prider Centre nurse unit manager Cath Porter said it was an extension what the two groups were already doing.
“We already had a very well-established visiting program with Our Lady Help of Christians Primary School,” she said.
Ms Porter said the new program would improve residents’ well-being and boost pupils’ reading skills.
Our Lady Help of Christians Primary School principal Eugene Dalton said the breakfast program had established strong bonds between students and residents.
“This new emphasis is almost a natural extension and adds greatly to the social, emotional development of all participants,” he said.
Lyndoch chief executive officer Doreen Power said the extension of the Mini Vinnies program was about “thinking outside the box”.
“The extension of this program adds so much more depth to developing and strengthening relationships between the students and residents,” she said.
