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Kindergarten at retirement home: Canadian children benefiting from 'senior moments'
Twice a week, 18 kindergartners from Eileen Madson primary school in Invermere, in Canada's Pacific coast province of British Columbia, get a different sort of lesson. In a programme, believed to be the first of its kind in Canada, the young pupils leave their classroom and take a bus to the Columbia Garden Village retirement home where the elderly residents share their life experience and help the children with their schoolwork. Marc Montgomery speaks with kindergarten teacher Barbara Carriere who spearheaded this initiative with her husband, Paul, who also happens to be the Rocky Mountain School District's superintendent.
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