Every Wednesday is reading day for students at Pekerau Primary School and senior residents of a local retirement village.
The kaitiaki readers are a group of residents from Freeman Court, plus some of the school's parents and grandparents.
They volunteer for an hour every week to listen to children reading in the school's library.
![Pekerau Primary School student Shiloh Bowden, 8, and kaitiaki reader Helen Anderson.](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/SJOO5KJ6U2Y4MTAKDDJWMAER5A.jpg?auth=0edd5b267b0a725045f2ac896d28f2c1418149c3730d6be3ecc6ab201eec164c&width=16&height=11&quality=70&smart=true)
Freeman Court resident Helen Anderson is one of the volunteers, and is also the daughter of the school's founding principal, Cyril Meads.