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Interview with Claire Welsh - Primary Schools Programme Manager

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BS What would you say is the importance of interactive or hands-on science within your area?

CW Oh, vital, yeah, I mean - I mean one thing - I mean like using the cards, at the moment we're putting in a new voting system which is going to be great. I mean the children are going to have to, to make their choices, you know, just like on Who Wants to be a Millionaire, you know, sort of 20 times during the show. Getting volunteers, volunteers down to do things. With some of the younger children we get them doing some sort of hand, hand actions so if it's a, "is it a pull or is it a push?" and, you know, they'll be going like this or like that and. So, yeah I think that's vital because - it's very easy, particularly if children have been in the exhibition for an hour and a half they can often come in, they're exhausted and they can just sit and, you know, and sort of, they might be just sat there thinking about lunch and not, so it needs to be very participatory, I think.