Al-Jazeera's film crew wanted to find out how children use creativity and hands-on activities for learning. Photo courtesy Eureka!
Arabic television channel Al-Jazeera has paid a trip to a museum in Halifax, West Yorkshire to find out how children in the UK use creativity and hands-on activity for learning.
The film crew followed a class of 10 and 11 year olds from Church Road Primary School in Bolton during a trip on April 4 2006 to Eureka! The Museum For Children, where they were learning about the science of sound.
“This is a programme for the Al-Jazeera children’s channel,” explained Arij Al-Soltan Al-Jazeera UK correspondent. “We have correspondents all over the world and our focus is to open young minds to other cultures and ways of learning.”
The schoolchildren had travelled from Bolton to learn about the science of sound. Photo courtesy Eureka!
“The theme of the report is creativity and the creative ways children approach learning.”
The crew spent an hour filming the children interacting with an array of learning tools in the museum’s SoundSpace gallery and focused on how they played different musical instruments and used lighting and theatre devices.
Euraka's SoundSpace gallery features more than 20 hands-on exhibits that allow children to see and feel how sound travels, to experiment with light, sound and other special effects and to create interactive performances by mixing their own personal compositions.
Al-Jazeera has several channels with a worldwide audience of around 35-40 million. Photo courtesy Eureka!
“I must say the children have been very good and have shown great creativity and learning and I will be reflecting that in my report,” said Arij.
Al-Jazeera has attracted controversy from some quarters for their approach to reporting world events, however it is viewed by many as the most independent Arabic news network and has a worldwide audience of 35-40 million. They have recently attracted veteran broadcaster Sir David Frost to join their new English language channel.
With viewers stretching right across the Arab world and beyond, the children from Bolton are assured a wide and interested viewing audience.
