Move On Up

About Move On Up

Summer 2024 Update!

“You make each and every participant feel truly valued and supported and make their transition into new services much smoother and more positive than it would otherwise be.” Tutor feedback

As we go into the summer holidays, we are now wrapping up our third year of Move On Up! We have had a busy few months delivering workshops, developing training, and evaluating this year.

In our final term of transition workshops, Leeds City College and Bradford College students became detectives who solved many puzzles in our multi-sensory escape room session to practice their ‘Creative Problem Solving’ skills, and braved our mystery box to explore ‘Overcoming Fear of the Unknown’. The participants also cheered each other on as each person ‘Challenged Themselves’ to try a variety of tricky tasks, including blindfolded bowling and building houses of cards. Everyone agreed that feeling pride in our past achievements can give us confidence to take on new challenges, and each participant (and some of the staff!) set off the stomp rocket to celebrate themselves! In our final sessions of the year, we reflected on the past year and looked forward to the future – you can read more about this in the Impact section.

In May, we delivered a full Move On Up training day with teachers from East SILC schools in Leeds, and we were pleased to return to Hazelbeck School to deliver their second training session. We also had an exciting day of filming with some Move On Up alumni participants, which will be part of our online training offer – the participants were fantastic and incredibly patient and professional as we worked with the lovely Eva McQuade to get the shots! You can find out more about our Move On Up Training below.

Throughout the summer, we will be planning our final year of Move On Up – we have lots of exciting ideas for the future so watch this space! If you would like to get involved with Move On Up in the future, get in touch with Hannah or Róisín using the contact details at the end of this page.

You can keep up to date with Move On Up and see photos from the workshops on our Instagram and Facebook.

Move On Up’s Impact

“Students have the opportunity to make choices, express themselves and work together which is building confidence and self-esteem” Tutor feedback

Using our innovative Purple Patch Approach to evaluation, we reimagined the River of Life evaluation tool to take our participants of a journey of reflection on their year and their feelings about their futures. We pride ourselves on creating safe, supportive spaces that enable our participants to express themselves and share how they are feeling in a way that suits them. Move On Up helps participants to develop the skills and confidence to share their true feelings, positive or negative, meaning they can feel more empowered to use their voice during times of change.

“Move On Up has given the students lots of time to talk about how they feel and has helped teach them to use their voice” Tutor feedback

Move On Up Training

“Hannah and Róisín delivered a fantastic session. It was well planned, with clear focus and engaging activities.” Training feedback

During the third year of Move On Up, we have been developing and piloting training for school and college staff to deliver Move On Up workshops to their students. We have had more requests for Move On Up than we can accomodate, so we hope that by creating training, we will be able to expand the reach and impact of the project, as well as spreading the use of the Purple Patch Approach.

Our in-person Move On Up Training is now available to book for your school or college!

The Move On Up training has 3 sections:

1. ‘The Purple Patch Approach’: explore the Purple Patch Approach: what it entails, why we use it, and how to use it.

2. ‘The Transitions Toolkit’: explore the tools in the Transitions Toolkit, look at a variety of creative activities to develop the skills, and examine the structure of a Move On Up session.

3. ‘Gathering Thoughts and Opinions’: explore ways for participants to express their thoughts and opinions through creative, multi-sensory methods.

 In each section, we will provide plenty of activity ideas, which will also be distributed in an ‘Activity Bank’ booklet, as well as give your staff the tools to create and develop their own ideas.

We are also currently developing an online version of the Move On Up training – watch this space!

If you would like to know more about Move On Up training, please contact Hannah using the form below or the contact details at the end of this page.

“Really enjoyed the training. I like how interactive and practical the session was. I found all the ideas relevant to my class. I will definitely implement them into my teaching.” Training feedback

Move On Up Contacts

If you would like to know more about Move On Up, please get in touch!

Move On Up is funded by the National Lottery Community Fund.