Feedback
We love to receive feedback from our events. Everything from letters to passing comments help us to keep our talks and activities fresh and engaging. We aim to ignite interest in children and adults.
Children's comments following our school visits
I liked that you got to pretend that the ball was a virus. We made the virus spread by passing it to the people that were next to us. I liked the fact that the children in the hats had the vaccine. It was really fun!
I remembered it was really funny and cool.
It was really interesting. We learned not just how viruses spread but how they need to spread to survive.
Viruses spread a lot faster and easier than I thought.
I thought it was a great assembly as you don’t normally learn about that kind of thing in lessons. The guys were funny and it was cool.
I liked all the experiments.
It was fun because we all got to interact and take part.
I learnt that there are so many viruses in the air at once.
I learnt how quickly viruses spread and how they do it.
I learnt that if you get vaccinated, it can protect you from getting a virus. The assembly was really fun!
The assembly gave us a lesson on how to protect ourselves from viruses.
It makes me wonder how these things are happening in my body.
I learnt a lot about how viruses spread and how vaccines stop them. If certain people are vaccinated they can protect other people by stopping the virus in its tracks.
Following the MRC Centenary event
I and my family attended the fair on Saturday and we all had the most fantastic day out. I would like to thank you for putting together such interesting and highly interactive programme. Even my 8-year old son, who is reluctant to do anything what school calls 'academic', was completely absorbed. He keeps on searching more information on Ebola virus (which he thinks is the scariest and coolest thing at the moment!). It is great to see the enthusiasm spreading and reaching people of all ages.
Outbreak! feedback
It was really fun and had lots of detail. We had to transfer blood to test for the type of disease
It was very educational and we all felt like professionals.
We learnt how to secure viruses.
Newsflashes were really well explained and the testing was amazing.
Newsflashes made it exciting, it was fun to work against the clock.
It was cool to learn how you find out what a virus really is.
I liked the way it wasn’t just other people from all over the world who got the virus. It was people from [our school]
I felt like a doctor/scientist – it has inspired me to become a scientist.
Feedback from teachers
Feedback from teachers has been very positive. One school has told us: "Since science week, some Year 5 and 6 classes have been inspired to do research of microbiology and one class has been creating art – using petri dishes to display pictures of viruses."
Letters and pictures we have received from children following our assemblies and activities
