My Future My Choice

Schools working with businesses to link young people's aspirations to their education.

Card Games; Workbooks; Stickers; Family Engagement; Workplace Tours; Drama; Curriculum Enrichment; Practical Design, Construction and Engineering Events.

The My Future My Choice programme introduces children and young people to the vast range of exciting opportunities available for their future, encouraging them to open their minds to a variety of possibilities and have the self-belief that they can achieve and be successful in whatever they chose to do.

We work with the charity The Bristol Initiative Trust on a regional strategy called Learning Ships

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We are grateful to many businesses for encouraging, advising and supporting My Future My Choice -

What people say

See Time Education Supplement TES 28th September 2012 - Young Shipwrights

"My Future My Choice was the highlight of the show. They have a very refreshing vision and are working hard to apply it to schools." Phil O'Brien, CEO Climbing Fish

"Thank you very much for a really enjoyable afternoon with the school children at the M-Shed last week. .....volunteers thoroughly enjoyed the task. It was great to be able to have a sense of achievement at the end, as well as something to look forward to, when they race their boats at the Harbour Festival. It was a great task too, as there was little clearing up to do afterwards". Angela Parfitt, Recruitment Advisor. Burges Salmon

"I have been on many school trips and activities and I can honestly say this is the best workshop I have been on....Carefully planned activities provided powerful learning opportunities for the children who showed amazing levels of engagement.... Sometimes its hard to get children to look forward and have high aspirations but the 'My Future My Choice Staff' are inspirational Adults and children all went away with good feelings and new visions." Stuart Parslow, Teacher, Avon Primary School

"If the children are buzzing half as much as my colleagues that is great" Dafydd Bowen, Actuary, AonHewitt

"We all really enjoyed building boats and being quizzed by the children and the photos are great for Marine News Magazine" Marcus Fischer, Design Engineer, Rolls-Royce

"A really great day and got a lot of our new volunteers hooked on outreach! It was really great talking to the kids and talking with other businesses in the afternoon was also a great experience. We've managed to set up a few more events with the schools off the back of it, so it's been brilliant for us." Conor McGlacken Bristol University, Engineers Without Borders

“It was the first time she had ever talked to us about her future and we talked lots about Secondary School” – Mother of 10 year old girl, North Bristol

“It’s an inspiration to me because I can see I can do lots of different things” 10 year old boy, North Bristol

“We used My Future My Choice as part of our focus on raising aspirations. Our SAT scores went up by about 20%. 81% for Literacy and 86% for maths with level 4 or above.” Year 6 Teacher, Bankleaze Bristol part of the MY Future My Choice Pilot 2009 for the Governments Key Stage Two Path Finder Programme

See Centre for Excellence and Opportunity report on the Bristol 2010 Explore My Future Pilot