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of transferring ourselves from the school
into the School House and watching the lesson we wished to see,
most of them were twenty minute lessons anyway, on the house
television and then back to school to do our follow-up work.
Remember 'what I hear I forget, what I see I remember, what I do
I know and understand.'
With these lessons all three of these
principles were bought into use. One such programme I remember
very well. It was a programme called ‘Let’s Go Out’. It
was aimed at country children in particular and the idea behind
it was to encourage the children to go out and explore their own
neighbourhood and near-by places of interest, seeing them with
new eyes really. We did a great deal with this programme. We did
just what they said – we did go out. With the help of two or
three of the parents with cars we planned visits to several
local places of interest, some of which although they were not
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visited at all. We found some very
interesting items. For instance we studied the wall paintings in
the old church at West Kingsdown and we examined their little
Saxon tower and we measured around the trunk of the big yew tree
there. One place we visited was Ightham Mote, a place which was
of great interest. If any of you have not been there I would
advise you to go. On the day we were making preparations for our
visit to Ightham Mote we were making all the final studies,
making sure our questionnaires were in order and such like when
the door opened and in walked Her Majesty’s Inspector Miss
Montgomery. She sat down and signalled me to carry on. After a
few minutes she came across to me and said, ‘This sounds most
interesting. What is it all about?’ So we told her that we had
been watching this series of programmes and we were doing what
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