BS. You were talking about the exhibits but would say there's a big difference
between the exhibit area and the educational area?
CW I think, I think the difference is that we - we do constrain
people to an extent in the education areas I mean "You are constrained, you
have got to stay in your seat." ((said in parody German accent, laughing))
Yeah things like, things like, yeah you can't just, you know, I mean there's,
child in the Storytime that I was doing today. I mean, OK it was a difficult
situation so you know, you make allowances but generally, you know, it's not,
it's not safe - sometimes it's simply, sometimes it's not safe for children
to be wandering around. But also, we provide certain learning opportunities,
I suppose, and they are, you know, they are restricted, in certain ways. Because
we - teachers come here because they want us to cover a certain, certain content.
I mean, it's, it's different for different ones, I mean, we do, the Under
The Sea show that you saw, you know the - for 3 to 5 year olds. I mean there,
just going out of school on a bus to, to go on a day out, for a lot of those
children that, that is the big experience in itself, and, you know, going
to a show is like the icing on the cake. But just the idea of sitting there,
you know, and responding to things and, you know, listening to what's happening,
it could've been about anything, it wouldn't have mattered. But you know it's,
it's choosing experiences that are right for each one. And then if we've got
children who are, like in their final year of primary school who are coming
up to their SATs test, you know, then teachers want us to cover certain things,
and, and it's very important that, you know, then they've got their cards
to - get them to show their answers and everyone has to show an answer for
the different questions and, so it's very much, you know, we expect we them
all to participate and they've all got to, they've got to be on the ball and,
and with, with what's going on. And, so it's different situations for different,
different things, really. But it, it is different in that we are - it's targeted
to age groups, targeted to ability. Whereas the exhibition is very much, you
know, 4 to 84 we say, I think sometimes, you know, and it is very much you
can dip in at different levels. Having said that, I mean sometimes if, for
some of the nursery things we would, we would suggest "take your children
to these 5 places" or something because there are going to be certain exhibits
that are going to, you know, children are going to get more out of it at a
young age. So we would, we would direct people to that sort of extent.
