It’s My Choice
It’s My Choice
About
It’s My Choice explores the true life dilemmas concerning young learning disabled people who are leaving school.
The programme puts the young person at the heart of the action, helping them to make important life choices and negotiate the maze of potential pressures, confusion and anxiety that can occur when planning to leave the safety of their school.
The series of stories are adapted from the popular theatre production ‘It’s My Move’ and are presented via teacher friendly PowerPoints with embedded, interactive films.
The teachers pack, along with training videos is there to support teachers navigate the programme.
How to access
Visit the It's My Choice WebsiteSuitable for
Learning disabled young people from 14 – 21 years
Aims
- Reduce stress and anxiety around transition for young people with learning difficulties and disabilities (LDD) and their carers
- Help young people express their choices and for carers and professionals to listen
- Improve understanding of the local offer and the Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP).
Resources
- Short films based on the characters from the original show
- A teacher’s pack
- Online interactive teacher training
Background
Stories of transition from school to adult life.
Adapted from the popular theatre production ‘It’s My Move’ by Julie McNamara and Face Front Inclusive Theatre
Duration
Each lesson/story is approximately 40 mins
WHAT THEY SAY
“I had actually reached out to Eliza to say thank you for sending me a teacher's pack in the post. That was what prompted me to sign up and discover the fantastic resources you have available! I think that the programme is wonderful, and hope to incorporate the stories as case studies into our career's curriculum. Thank you.”
Darcy Louch, Assistant Head, Kingsley High School
“Every aspect of how to make resources as useful as possible when transferring from live to online seems to have been considered by Face Front. The overall standard of all the resources is incredibly high… An incredible amount of work has obviously gone into creating these extensive and comprehensive resources to support young people with additional needs and their teachers in exploring the transition phase… Enormous congratulations to all those involved in making such invaluable comprehensive educational content and subsequently making it so accessible to those involved in this important decision-making process as part of a young person’s life… I would consider this online resource to be an exemplar of best practice in moving from live to online delivery.”
Jean Carter, the John Lyon’s Charity
“Very impressive.”
Barnet and Southgate College
“....fantastic resources … produced for teachers to use with their students to explore transition to adulthood.”
West Lea School
“We would definitely want to access this resource.”
New Horizons
“… this looks like a great resource.”
Oaklands School
“I am so excited to be introducing this amazing project and resource to our school, thank you once again on behalf of everyone at Oaktree.”
Oaktree School
