Inclined to believe it
There are many ways to include simulations in your practical programme, one way is to simulate an experiment but this seems to defeat the object of practical work and I don't like to do it. An alternative approach is to use simulations to aid understanding of the affect of changing some of the controlled variables. I think this is a more natural use of simulations, I often use them in this way to help me understand how a physical system works. I remember a student some 20 years ago using interactive physics to model the motion of a toy hedgehog. Being able to slow down the motion made it possible to see how the legs moved enabling a model to be formulated. To test the usefulness of this approach I have started to prepare some teachers notes on how a student might use a simulation to aid their evaluation of some standard experiments. I've started with the inclined plane which I have made public.