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Hello Im Angela Kirmess, I am the teacher form Fairwood high school and I am working
on a project called project search, basically town hall, there is a team of 3, myself a
teaching assistant, and a supported employer specialist from reemploy and the objective
of the project is to get students into paid employment, we operate for 12 months and we
do 3 10 week placements, we select students up to the age of 25 and we have students that
are currently on role at our school as well, and i am going to be talking about Usman shortly
and he is one of the students on role at Fairwood high school. Thats it, the objective is to
get the students into paid employment and become work ready and independent as possible
and a big feature in that is to get them to travel independently which again will make
them more work ready and we have an annual review at work and at the review we identify
students who express an interest in becoming independent travellers and with the agreement
of the parents we then try and drive that forward and Usamn has successfully completed
bus travel training and now travels from home into town, from town into fair wood academy
on his own, goes back into town, calls into the office then gets himself home. We are
really pleased and his parents are delighted because we did have some issues he's overcome
and is managing really well. We have sen a marked improvement is Usman since he started
travel training, a lot of independent skills, a lot of questions that he asks or would of
asked before he actually problem solves himself now and is very focused on what e does, he
is not as pre occupied with everybody else, he is more pre occupied with what he can do.
We have, like I said seen a marked improvement and I can see himself and his self esteems
really risen its amazing really he has done so well, we are really proud of him. My name
is Usman, I am 19 years old and here I am outside the Bolton Council, and I am off to
sixth form academy for my work experience, so i will see you at the station. How did
you travel training go? Was fantastic, thanks for all your help. Thats fine, you are welcome.
What did you earn? How to catch a bus and make sure I am getting the right bus to school,
crossing from town hall to the bus stop, waiting for the green man so that means I can cross
the road, look left and right, listen and think. Thats brilliant and what was the other
things that you did to keep yourself safe when you are getting on the bus? Sit near
the driver, do not sit near the back because if anything happens it is easy for you to
tell the bus driver. Well done, have you made any other journeys since finishing your travel
training? No not really, not at the moment. Would you like to? Yes. Where would you like
to travel to next? To town on the weekend. You will have to work on that one wont you?
Yes.