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Interview with Claire Welsh - Primary Schools Programme Manager

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BS. I'll just ask you one more question before I pass you over to Emma. Would you say there are any particular strengths or weaknesses in the approaches you've been describing?

CW Well I think it stops them from going to sleep ((laughter)). That's a strength. I think often if you, if you actually physically have to do something then, that helps you work things out and sort things out. I think if you're just listening to someone talking then, you don't have to make your own decisions about things, I mean the fact you've got to show your cards or you've got to do your vote, it's, all the time then you're having to think "oh, what do I think?" it's a personal thing, isn't it. And more recently, another thing we have started doing more recently in shows, is to have, every so often in a show, maybe 3 or 4 times in a show, I'll ask a question and I'll say, "right, I'll give you a minute, talk to the person next to you" and then, make sure I actually stop talking and give them a minute and then, then ask, ask for any, any ideas people have got so, put the onus back on people so. Otherwise you always get, particularly if you've got a hundred in you're audience, it's very easy to just take the first couple of you know, there's always 2, 3 or 4 who will shoot their hands up, and everyone else knows "oh so and so will come up with something" then, you know, it's easy to just sit passively. So, that sort of thing, at least they've all had to talk about it even if some of them haven't come up with something, they've all had to talk about it at that particular moment. I think that's, that's something that we've, increasingly doing in the shows now, which I think has worked well.