A good start in life - working in partnership with your local children's centre

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A good start in life - working in partnership
with your local children's centre

• Megan Wilcox
• Lead EY Consultant
• Childrens Centres

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Can childrens centres offer schools any added
value through partnership working?
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A shared sense of belonging for all living in
the communitystart with a map
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On the bus- using community transport to bridge
the gaps between schools and childrens centre
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and school feedback

• The children got such a lot out of it.  The bus
  journey provided great excitement for the
  children and encouraged them to speak freely. 
  The sessions gave the staff quality time with
  children in small groups.

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Children accessing additional services

• Tea club is an after school session for a small
  hand picked group of children from key stage one
  to develop their social skills outside the
  classroom environment - a 3 weekly programme
  offered to local schools.
• Before my child started Tea Club I was nervous
  about going into the Childrens Centre it gave me
  a real reason to come in
• I never realised my child could use a knife so
  well

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Supporting the CAF process

• Childrens centre managers ask that schools
  remember they can be a useful resource as part of
  the team around the child or family
• if they know whats happening!
• and they often have independent spaces for
  meetings!

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Raising achievement

• EYFSP target all EY settings can help
• Supporting transitions - inductions and summer
  camps
• Speech and language support
• Adult learning
• Growing people volunteers successful courses
  in Cheshunt increase parents skills in the
  classroom

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Partnerships as tools to improve outcomes for
children

• Involving parents - harnessing their unique
  knowledge of their children
• Providing regular opportunities, both informal
  and formal, where information is shared and
  parental contributions are sought.
• Learning Journals for all?

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Partners in Self Evaluation

• Most recently - Childrens centre performance
  management
• - sharing someone elses targets and data!
• Lots is a good outcome?
• Tracking young children is a difficult task!