Children's views on active learning transcript

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Pupils Interviews, Rothes Primary School

Pupil 1:

The best bit was we had to make mini beasts out of the frames and we had to put it anywhere to make ... put the ... background. I liked the nursery guys. I helped them ...

Int:

You helped them did you?

Pupil 1:

... when they got stuck. They was trying to make a spider but they didn’t know what to do, so I put it on eight sticks to make the legs. I like playing the bee game. And it was back to the hive, busy bees, gather pollen and catch the queen bee. It was better than working inside in the classroom because it was much more fun.

Pupil 2:

I looked after them, all of them, even my sister.

Int:

Did you?

Pupil 2:

Yeah, my sister was my buddy, so was Nathan. Nathan, um, helped ... Nathan and, um, Faith helped me and Kieran helped me, um, make our worm. We learned about, um, stuff that was really exciting and it was really brilliant with everything we done with the nursery.

Pupil 3:

It was fun because you got to do lots of different things that you’ve never tried before, like playing lots of new games. Everyone helped to ... the people who were good at learning, they helped you to learn ... flies and maggots before they turn in them ... we got to meet new people ... look after younger people.