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Extended Schools consulting and involving
parents

• Julian Piper National Programme Director The
  Extended Schools Support Service

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Whats it all about?
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Whats it all about?
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Why now?
Every Child Matters
Personalised learning
Lack of impact on bottom 10
Teacher workload workforce reform
The planets are in order!
Childrens Trusts
Plateau of results and attainment
680m
BSF,Academies,Primary Schools
Changing view of health(PCT)
Tackling Crime (YOT etc.)
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Why now?
Every Child Matters
Personalised learning
Lack of impact on bottom 10
Teacher workload workforce reform
Community Sector
Others are ready to help
Childrens Trusts
Plateau of results and attainment
Voluntary Sector
BSF,Academies,Primary Schools
Changing view of health(PCT)
Tackling Crime (YOT etc.)
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The core offer for parents and familiesto be in
or accessed through all schools by 2010
A varied menu of activities
Quality childcare
Multi-agency behaviour support teams
Core offer
All year round 8am-6pm
Parental consultation and involvement
on site or through local providers
including study support
Community access
Parenting support
Swift and easy referral
Community access
Community-based health and social care services
to specialised support services
including family learning
including adult learning
Source NRT
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HMI Report (May 2005)
Parents are enthusiastic and there are
examples of how life chances have been improved
for vulnerable families and children. Many
parents have gained qualifications and feel more
confident in talking to teachers about their
childrens progress. When external services,
such as social care and family support, are based
in the school, they can help parents more quickly
without their having to wait for an appointment
The effectiveness of extended school provision is
increased when the local authority provides early
support in planning and developing the provision
in line with other local priorities.
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End of first year report
Local authorities and schools were seeing the
full service extended schools initiative as an
opportunity to rethink the role of schools in
relation to their pupil populations and to the
families and communities they serve. In very
broad terms, schools saw full service status as a
means of addressing some of the out-of-school
difficulties faced by their pupils. These
difficulties have long had significant impacts on
pupils achievement, but schools capacity to
reduce those impacts has hitherto been limited.
Prof Alan Dyson published 29 Sept 05
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• By helping to create a system in which schools
  work together, routinely respond to parent voice
  and harness their enthusiasm to help, the stakes
  of school choice might start to reduce. In turn,
  this might make the experience of choosing a
  school a positive experience, about the
  expression of membership of different communities
  and of a childs real interests.

DEMOS 2004
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Headteachers Stories
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Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump,
bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind
Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows,
the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes
he feels that there really is another way, if
only he could stop bumping for a moment and think
of it. Stories of Winnie-The-Pooh, AA Milne 1989
With thanks to
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Extended Schools consulting and involving
parents

• Julian Piper National Programme Director The
  Extended Schools Support Service