Together we grow - Kyran's story
Kyran is 13 years old and has been a student at Ashcroft School since May last year. As well as thriving in his new educational environment, Kyran has also quickly become a strong advocate for the Together Trust outside of school.
“Before I came to Ashcroft I wasn’t the best behaved and didn’t pay much attention when I was in lessons. That’s all changed now because of how they do lessons at Ashcroft. The teachers take time to learn how you like to learn and create lessons to help keep your attention and get your work done. Some of the other schools I’ve been to weren’t like that. Coming here has really helped me and calmed me down a lot.
I’ve been really enjoying ICT where we have been learning different types of coding and I’ve being doing my iDEA (inspiring Digital Enterprise Award) which is a bit like a digital Duke of Edinburgh award where we learn about the uses of coding, ICT and digital literacy and there are some marketing and business elements. It’s great that I’m able to do things like this at Ashcroft based on my ability and I’m not restricted by my age, like I have been before.
I was asked last year to help out with some interviews they were doing for a Participation Officer role. We did some group interviews where I asked some questions to the applicants and also answered some questions they had about the Together Trust; I really enjoy that sort of stuff so it was great. I felt really proud that I was involved in the interviews and could help out in something outside of Ashcroft.
I was asked by Mark Lee, Together Trust’s Chief Executive, to be filmed answering some questions about how Ashcroft has helped me. It went really well and it was great to hear that it helped the Trust win the award! I was pleased to be able to help after the charity has helped me so much. I would definitely do it again.”