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Avonmouth Local Learning
Programme for Avonmouth INSET, 26th February 2007.


Introduction

Who is Myers-Insole Local Learning Community Interest Company?
What is the company about?

1 – Exploring web pages from MILLCIC site

What are the key elements required to design a curriculum based, local history resource?

  • Comparing the past with the present
  • Contrasting lifestyles of the rich and poor in a given period
  • What was life like in that period?
What cross-curricular opportunities are there and how will the resource best facilitate teaching and promote learning?

Activities:
  • To take a virtual journey through Tudor Bristol.
  • To design a Roman coin promoting the school ethos.

10.30 Coffee


2 – The birth of Avonmouth Village (and the significance of Avonmouth during World War l)

Groups

Aim – to produce lesson plans that are;
  • cross curricular
  • linked to Avonmouth
  • making use of the local environment
  • tailored to each year group

12.00 Lunch


3 – Producing a guide to Avonmouth

Groups

Aim – to produce schemes of work that are;
  • cross curricular
  • developing literacy skills at all levels
  • promoting a sense of civic pride in the area
  • using Avonmouth as a resource
  • tailored to each year group