Myers-Insole Local Learning CIC

	Home	Myers-Insole Local Learning is a not for profit Community Interest Company (C.I.C.) that was established in Bristol in 2005. We are a small company consisting of two directors: Peter Insole - Project Manager (archaeological education consultant). Ruth Myers - Project Manager (teaching and learning education consultant).

Our main objectives are to: Promote an understanding and appreciation of Bristol's heritage and culture through easily accessible educational resources. Ensure that these educational resources will benefit children’s learning in accordance with school curricula and education policies. Facilitate teaching by providing relevant resources that focus on the development of key skills and promote an enjoyment in learning. Wherever possible, use a local area’s sites, monuments and relevant digital data as learning resources. MILLCIC has been working with Bristol City Council, Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol Reference Library, Archaeological Officers and staff and pupils at local schools to develop learning resources that aim to develop key skills through the use of spatial stories linked to an area’s history.
Stokes Croft 2009 Currently MILLCIC are managing a three year community learning project as part of the Stokes Croft Townscape Heritage Initiative for Bristol City Council. This project involves local schools, colleges and Fairbridge Trust to develop learning materials for an annual heritage trail in this deprived area of Bristol. The work aims to complement and promote the physical regeneration of Stokes Croft through raising awareness of the history of the area. During the recent heritage trail visitors to Stokes Croft collected guide books, Victorian newspapers and Top Trumps cards all created by local pupils and students and joined characters on a tour of the area set in 1875 (right).
Tudor Trails 2007-8 During 2007 and 2008 MILLCIC ran a successful lottery funded project that introduced children from several primary schools to Tudor Bristol through a virtual web based trail and a walking tour with actors who took on the roles of specific characters from Tudor Bristol. During two seasons 18 classes from Years 3-5 from 9 schools visited the trails including one group of wheelchair users from Claremont Special Secondary School. The trails were also provided for two general public events and a group of home educators of primary school aged children.
Mock Digs 2007 As part of this same lottery funded project MILLCIC ran a Mock Archaeological excavation for Year 7 pupils. The Mock dig used archaeological evidence from a previous excavation to provide pupils with an experience of the nature of archaeological fieldwork. A portion of a Romano-British excavation was recreated with ditches, pits and post holes filled with loose material containing actual archaeological finds of Iron age, Roman and later date. Fourteen groups of pupils visited the site over a period of three weeks and excavated, recorded and interpreted the site for themselves under the guidance of a professional archaeologist.
MILLCIC have provided several In Service Training days to schools in Bristol to enable staff to make the most of their local learning opportunities within their immediate neighbourhood through historic maps and their own spatial stories. MILLCIC have also provided a day at Castle Park with children from a number of North Bristol primary schools funded by the Gifted and Talented programme. During the day the children looked for surviving evidence of Bristol Castle and designed ideas to make the castle's past more legible for visitors to the park. We can be contacted by email.