BS: What about the lab. That's probably the most conventional scientific space you've got.
DB: Yeah. It's done in different ways because if - they're doing according to the age range as well because we do everything in the lab. One of the things we do is like a music workshop, where they'll sit round and they'll just beat out rhythms. So in that case they're just learning to do rhythms and they'll say something like "fish and chips" and they'll beat out fish and chips or whatever. So they're actually learning to beat rhythms.
Other ones they're experimenting and looking at things um looking at skulls and insects or whatever it is. So in that case they're working in smaller groups, they've got a person with them, with each group who can sort of guide them and encourage them. It also teaches them to actually sit down and - well in some ways they have to sit down and some of them have to look at the instructions to find out what to do and there's somebody there to guide them because, like everybody else they're not very good at reading instructions. But from that sort of point of view I think, depending on how you actually use it, because it's used in so many different ways, it can be used for sort of investigating things it's, it's building up investigation skills is the one thing. And it's it's it's so - geared to the individual age range. It could be everything from a story - and going round investigating particular things.
But I think a lot of the things they do in there they could possibly do similarly - there's links (to some) of the ways they might do things in schools by working in groups in certain areas but obviously we can add things that they might not have at a home. So, I think - again it's looking at, I think it's more looking at investigating various bits and pieces and finding things out. That's what tends to be happening in the labs. Even with the A-level they're doing an experiment and they're extracting DNA or something. Which they may not do in school. Down to the - simplest thing where it might be looking at how many legs a whatever's got, sort of thing, you know. It's good they're not going digging them up from the garden, ( prongs) when they've got one already done for them. But I think it's looking, it's more the invest- it's building up on investigation skills. But again it depends on what the particular thing because each particular workshop is aimed at a particular thing, so it's very difficult to say "a child will go in there and learn this" unless you (taught) me a specific thing because each one's aimed at a specific different sort of thing and, obviously with the age range as well.