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St John's Local Learning
Programme for St John's INSET, 31st October 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 environment resource?

  • Understanding the local area
  • Exploring how the local resources can work within the framework of the existing curriculum
  • Examining what those resources help to explain
  • Comparing the past with the present
  • Analysing reasons for change and development
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 Downs and the immediate area.

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

12.00 Lunch


3 – Bristol Zoo and its Historic Landscape

Aim – to produce schemes of work that are;
  • cross curricular
  • developing literacy skills at all levels
  • using the zoo as a resource
  • tailored to each year group