ABSTRACT
The clinical interview method was chosen for the third reason, because it was felt that motivation is helped by a personal interview, if rapport is suitably established, interest evoked from the start and a friendly, interested adult conducts the discussion. Five simple pictures, pen and ink drawings, were devised and eight scripture stories, used widely at all ages in many Agreed Syllabuses, were discussed with some 60 pupils, some individually and some in small groups. Problems of establishing rapport with children new to school life were considerable and much more time than was available would have been necessary. The children's names quoted in all examples given are fictitious, but all other details given are authentic, the responses being taken verbatim from the records of the interviews.
