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WHAT IS AN EXTENDED SCHOOL?

By 2010, all children should have access to a variety of activities beyond the school day.  Research has shown that well organised, safe and stimulating activities before and after school provide children and young people with a wider range of experiences and make a real difference to their chances at school.  It gives them the opportunity to keep fit and healthy, acquire new skills, build their self-confidence, to build on whatever they have learnt at school that day, or simply to have fun and relax.

The idea of Extended Services arose out of the government's commitment to reduce child poverty and champion the Every Child Matters agenda. It aims to unlock the potential of every child and young person, provide support to ensure success in their adult lives and make our communities a safe and happy place for our children to grow up in.   

The Government's aim is for every child, whatever their background or their circumstances, to have the support they need to:

             Stay Safe

                Be Healthy

                Achieve Economic Well-being

                Enjoy & Achieve

                Make a Positive Contribution

The days of schools as hermetically sealed units are long gone.  No longer are parents kept at a polite distance, facilities placed out of bounds and children left shivering at the school gates waiting for school to begin.  In the past four years there has been a  revolution in schools across England. By spring 2010 all primaries, secondary and special schools were expected to be offering a full range of extended services with 95% of Hampshire schools reaching local and national targets. 

A full range of extended services, often referred to as the Full Core Offer, include the following:

	a varied menu of study support activities such as homework, sports and music clubs
	high quality childcare 8.00 am to 6.00 pm on the school site or through other providers
	parenting support and information, parenting programmes and family learning
	swift and easy referral to a wide range of specialist support services
	ICT, sports and arts facilities and adult learning for the wider community

Extended schools come in many shapes and sizes; it's not a case of one size fits all!  Neither are schools being expected to work in isolation to provide all of these services. It would not be feasible, or even financially sustainable to have all of these services duplicated at every school. Therefore many schools fulfil their extended school obligations simply by knowing enough about local provision to offer streamlined signposting to services without the need to bring them 'in-house'.  

To see how this all fits please take a quick look at the presentations from the Training and Development Agency (tda), and the 2006 Hampshire Governor's briefing below:

What is an Extended School?

What are Extended Services?

Hampshire Five Year Strategy - Briefing for Governors

Extended Services Video

It was decided that a potential key for unlocking the 'extended services puzzle-box' would be to engage an individual to research what is already available in our communities, coordinate consultation with children, young people and their families on what they would like, and then attempt to draw together many different partners with a shared vision and plans to put this into action.   In response to this challenge, Susie Higgs was appointed as the CAPP Extended Services Coordinator (ESCO) for the Cams & Portchester cluster group of schools (known as the CAP Partnership) to guide us through this extended services maze and provide a useful brokerage service between our schools and community partners. Establishing this web site was the first of Susie's challenges....!

So with no web design experience, Susie will work in partnership with Community Action Fareham  on behalf of the following partnership schools:

Susie would be more than happy to receive your suggestions for this web site, answer any questions and help you set up activities for children, young people and their families in our area.   For a light-hearted monthly diary/online newsletter for our schools and community partners, then please take a regular visit to Susie's slightly 'unusual' Blog below:

If you need information about funding your community projects, or for the latest news and events in your area then please take a visit too:

and last but not least if you want to find out what is going on in Fareham then...

check out our Facebook Page!

Fareham Extended School Community Page is our new 'virtual notice board' for local families.   Please help us to promote this useful page to parents and carers.   Simply sign up to Facebook, click 'like', and join Fareham's Extended School Community notice board with up-to-date information about events, places to visit, discounts, free stuff and useful web sites for all the family.  

Fareham Families Twitter Page - receive short updates into your Twitter account about what is going on and what is available locally.   

Kind thanks from

Susie Higgs (CAPP former ESCO)

Community Action Fareham

163 West Street, Fareham, PO16 0EF

Telephone (01329) 231899