The representatives were community members who were asked to share their roles and experiences with the attentive students.

These individuals were handpicked and included employees from the police station, ambulance service, newspaper, library, the council, lifesaving club and dentist.

Other representatives included people from the bank, optometrist and hospital.

The kids rotated groups every 10 minutes and asked questions of the 12 speakers including Mayor Jim Pollock, librarian Treanne Clark, and Whyalla News manager Harvey Shaw.

"They did all the ringing around and we did all the brainstorming together," class teacher Sarah Robertson said.

"We said they needed to tell us about how they support Whyalla in general."

Miss Robertson said the students were all excited about it, and the sessions were helped by the fact quite a few of their parents occupied these roles.

"They (students) had time for their own questions, and the people that were presenting even handed some pamphlets out and little gifts and stuff," Miss Robertson said.

"We've learned a lot through books, but to be face-to-face and get the answers it actually really helped them."

She said the children were also now more appreciative of the services that are available to them in the community.

"They really liked going into the ambulance, that was a favourite one, and also the police car as well - they liked being in the car and got to play with the sirens," Miss Robertson said.

She said next year she would look at more into things that are available in the community to help citizens, especially in the area of maintaining public health.

She suggested the possibility of looking at the wider community surrounding Whyalla, and perhaps highlighting what services aren't available for residents.

"They could see how we could write to the government and say we need this sort of service," she said.

"In the higher year levels they've got a strong citizenship program going, so they're used to dealing with that sort of thing - identifying (issues) and then going through the process of writing to government."