Lyfta’s engaging human story-based learning experiences are adaptable for different age ranges and abilities. The platform invites students to experience different cultures and perspectives and provides the opportunity to see and connect with positive human stories from around the world.
Lyfta is used by teachers in hundreds of schools in the UK, including leading SEND practitioners, who are working hard to ensure that children with special educational needs are reaching their full potential as learners and are active members of society.
"Lyfta is a powerful platform that reduces the marginalisation that children and young people with additional needs too often experience. The platform removes boundaries and has the unique quality of removing those labels of SEN or disability. Suddenly the world is there to access, explore, and engage with as a global citizen."
"I work with students who require a lot of sensory input to their learning so I’m using Lyfta to support them by creating an immersive learning experience. We are a Rights Respecting School and Lyfta works alongside this perfectly, enabling me to fully embed the Rights and SDGs across the school."
Lyfta could be useful in any classroom, with any year group, regardless of learning needs and pupil abilities. Because in essence it is a means through which children and young people can explore ‘humanity,’ what it is to be human.
Helena Morrissey is assistant headteacher at Elms Bank Specialist Arts College, a secondary special school in Bury, NW England.
If you had asked Helena before using Lyfta, whether she thought her pupils - all of whom are on the autistic spectrum - would be watching foreign documentaries and reading subtitles, she admits that she would have laughed at the idea. But thanks to several factors inherent in the Lyfta experience, this is indeed what is happening at Elms Bank School.
According to Helena, there are three reasons for the impact using Lyfta can have on children on the autistic spectrum:
Helena believes that the traditional teaching methods for subjects like history or geography can be too abstract and even irrelevant for some of her students. However, the Lyfta immersive experience has enabled students to begin to understand people more and it has helped them to start to notice, compare and discuss what they think, as never before.
