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Westbury Park Local Learning
Programme for Westbury Park INSET, 16th 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 design a virtual excavation based on Westbury Park’s nearest Roman site.
  • To design a Roman coin promoting the school ethos.
  • To take a virtual journey through Tudor Bristol.

10.30 Coffee


2 – Using the school as a resource

Tour of the school

Aim – to produce lesson plans that are
  • cross curricular
  • using the school as a resource
  • tailored to each year group.

12.00 Lunch


3 – Using Durdham Downs as a resource

Tour of the Downs

Aim – to produce schemes of work that are
  • cross curricular
  • linked to the Downs
  • making use of the local environment
  • tailored to each year group