Extended Schools in Nottingham City

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Extended Schools in Nottingham City

• Gayle Aughton Laine Tomkinson
• Development Officers Extended Schools Team

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Agenda
What is an extended school? How are we making it
happen in Nottingham? What Next?
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What is an extended school? How are we making it
happen in Nottingham? What Next?
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An Extended School is..
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Children families and young people at the heart
of Extended Services
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An Extended School is
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But .

• Its NOT about schools working alone
• Its about working in clusters
• In multi agency teams
• Building on what is already there
• Joining services together
• Signpost to existing services
• Build on new opportunities to engage the
  community

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Socio-economic status has the single biggest
influence on achievement and life chances
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Local authority timeline for extended schools
2005-2010
2010
2005
2006
2008

• 2005
• Development of Integrated Inspection Framework

• Mid-2006
• Children and Young Peoples Plans in all
  authorities
• Currently out for consultation
• Safeguarding Children
• Local Safeguarding Board will be in place by
  April 2006
• Peer Review for Joint Area Review (JAR) February

• 2006
• Most authorities have Childrens Trusts
  arrangements in place
• Most authorities have a Director of Childrens
  Services
• Edwina Grant in post
• A lead member for Childrens Services in most
  authorities
• Councillor Graham Chapman lead member for
  Childrens Services

• 2010
• Wraparound affordable childcare available for all
  parents of primary aged children
• All secondary schools open 8am-6pm, all year
  round and offering activities
• All 3-4 year olds receiving 15 hours of free
  early years education, 38 weeks of the year

• 2008
• Wraparound affordable childcare in at least half
  of all primary schools
• One third of all secondary schools open 8am-6pm,
  all year round and offering activities
• All authorities have Childrens Trusts
  arrangements
• All authorities have a Director of Childrens
  Services
• A lead member for Childrens Services in all
  authorities

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Agenda
What is an extended school? How are we making it
happen in Nottingham? What Next?
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Building relationships to create clusters
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The Context

• 123 schools
• 13 Secondary
• 93 Primary
• 4 PRUs
• 3 Voluntary Aided
• 1 Academy
• 1 Foundation
• 6 Special

• Unitary Authority
• Integrated Childrens Services 1st April 2006
• Appointed Director Childrens Services
• Lead Member for Childrens Services
• Primary Reorganisation
• Building Schools for the Future
• Common Assessment Framework
• Joint Area Review
• Neighbourhood Management
• Locality Based Services

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What have we done so far?

• 2004 pilot eight schools ran a variety of
  initiatives including
• Health Partnerships at Jesse Boot Primary
• After school clubs and activities in Glenbrook
  Primary
• Family learning sessions outside schools hours
  and in holiday time at Dunkirk Primary and
  Nursery
• Adult learning classes at Elliot Durham and
  Radford Primary
• Twilight learning opportunities at Radford
  Primary
• Improved facilities for community use of schools
  buildings at Burford Primary Nursery
• Holiday club open to the community at Brinkhill
  Primary Nursery

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How is the activity being supported?

• Central team
• Core Team
• TDA/ContinYou/4Children
• Initial capacity building fund
• Funding formula
• Strategic Plan in place (draft)

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Further support

• Toolkit
• Draft Action Plan based on ECM
• Collaboration with CAF
• Creating links to other agendas
• Performance measures, impact assessment and
  validation

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Making it happen

• Meet with key people
• Arrange a series of workshops
• Establish a Steering Group
• Commission an audit and mapping exercise
• Consult and engage with partners and community
• Identify gaps and opportunities
• Complete an Action Plan
• Apply for funding
• Appoint a co-ordinator

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Why extended schools?

• Raise standards
• Lift children and families out of living in
  poverty
• Provide a more personalised offer to children
• Enable teachers to focus on teaching and learning

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The workshop process
Nottingham City Council
Core offer
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The Clusters

• First 4 clusters identified (meet our target by
  September 2006)
• St Anns
• Top Valley
• Sneinton
• Bilborough
• Next 4 clusters identified (meet our target by
  September 2007)
• Central
• Farnborough
• Bigwood
• Haywood

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Build on success

• We are meeting the target of 15 of schools
  delivering the core offer by September 2006 (20
  schools)
• Well on the way to meeting the target of 30
  Schools delivering the core offer by September
  2007 (36 schools)
• Building our own case studies and good practice
• Piloting for Police and Arts Council
• Nottingham City has 19 of schools delivering
  the core offer against the national figure of 18
  and 15 regionally (March 2007).

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Funding for Extended Schools

• DfES allocated both capital and revenue in
  2006/07 and 07/08 from both Standards fund and
  GSSG plus funding in schools existing budgets.
• Initial capacity building fund allocated to
  every school in August 2006 to support mapping
  audit.
• Devolved budget to schools approved in December
  2006 based on following formula
• Top slice 20 for every school 2006/07 and 07/08
• 8 Clusters allocated remaining funds based on
  50 NOR and 50 FSM
• Financial management and monitoring based around
  existing EIP funding arrangements.

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Agenda
What is an extended school? How are we making it
happen in Nottingham? What Next?
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Keep going
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Negotiate when the remaining clusters will come
into the programme
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Measure the effectiveness of Extended Schools

• Quality Mark (QES)
• Develop our own Performance Indicators
• Validation
• Self Assessment/JAR
• Developing our own case studies
• Improved Standards evidenced through
• OfSTED Inspection

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• Learn from the research
• Research cited the link between extended
  provision and improvements in standards of
  attainment.
• The investigation by the universities of
  Newcastle and Manchester found that extended
  services can help individuals and families
  re-engage with learning and can have a
  significant impact on their life chances.
• This research "confirms that extended services
  not only benefit children, young people, their
  families and wider communities but the schools
  which offer them can expect to see a positive
  impact on their academic results". Beverley
  Hughes

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Ofsteds key findings on extended schools is
encouraging
Pupils has a greater sense of ownership of what
went on in their school. When they chose the
activities , the services were sustained, varied
and innovative.
The major benefits to children young people and
adults were enhanced self-confidence , improved
relationships, raised aspirations and better
attitudes to learning.
Schools, childrens centres and local
authorities made intelligent use of the local
networks of statutory and voluntary services when
setting up extended services across an area.
The vast majority of parents who participated in
training or used the support services were highly
satisfied with what was provided.
Source Ofsted report on extended schools and
childrens centre July 2006
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Further information

• www.4children.org.uk
• www.continyou.org.uk
• www.dfes.gov.uk
• www.teachernet.gov.uk
• www.ncma.org.uk
• www.ofsted.gov.uk

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Getting there.