The L.O.V.E. Letter ~ No. 19The Newsletter of Project L.O.V.E. ~
Fall 2005 ~
PO Box 2000 Charlottetown PE C1A 7N8 BOASTing about this thing called L.O.V.E.!Project L.O.V.E. stands for Let Older Volunteers Educate, and is our elementary school project. BOAST stands for Bringing Older Adults and Students Together, and we find BOAST volunteers in intermediate and high schools. In 37 schools across PEI, more than 250 very committed (mainly retired) older volunteers help students with their school work in various areas. In the elementary program, help is usually in that most important area, reading. L.O.V.E. Volunteers go to their school once a week, spending between an hour and a whole morning or afternoon in the school. They usually help one student at a time, listening and coaching them with words, reading aloud to model good pronunciation and expression for them, helping with classroom projects or to get caught up on missed assignments. BOAST Volunteers are more flexible - some visit the school once a week, while others work on short-term projects, which may involve more visits over a shorter period of time. The volunteer work is usually focussed on the areas of expertise of the volunteer. Teachers whose students work with the Project L.O.V.E. and BOAST volunteers all agree: Their students benefit greatly from this help, gaining selfconfidence through the interest shown in them by the volunteers. Minister Commends Project L.O.V.E. at AGMI appreciate these opportunities to hear about the work you are doing..... and to keep you informed of our work in the education system. The first good opportunity I had to learn about Project L.O.V.E. was last year when I attended your annual meeting. I was so glad to have that opportunity..... because over the year as we held some intensive discussions about literacy, I was able to gain a much deeper appreciation of the great contribution you make to literacy and to student achievement. Literacy has risen to the top of our priority list in education. Literacy has a powerful influence on our ability as individuals, to develop the social and intellectual skills that we need to reach our potential and participate fully in society. Literacy is equally important to us as a province.... because strong provincial literacy levels help us to build a strong economy and a healthy society. Over the past ten years, our government has invested heavily in key areas of education such as:
Now, we are turning our attention to student achievement, and specifically those key areas of literacy... reading, writing and numeracy.... which are essential to learning everything else in life. Improving literacy is at the heart of the work being done by the new Task Force on Student Achievement. |
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