1. Extended Schools Remodelling Programme

2. The Every Child Matters agenda is focused on achieving five outcomes that matter most to children
Every Child Matters: Change for Children sets out an agenda for reform across children's services, allowing providers to work more effectively both together and with parents and carers

3. To attain these outcomes all schools will offer core extended services by 2010 – 50% schools by 2008
A varied menu of activities
Parenting support
Swift and easy referral
to specialised
support services
including family learning
including adult learning
Quality childcare
All
year
round
8am-6pm
on site or through
local providers
including study support
Core
offer
Extended schools are not expected to work alone or deliver services in isolation, but work together with the Local Authority and other agencies to deliver this agenda together
Community access
Community access
The ECM:Change for Children programme is a shared national programme of system-wide reform designed to ensure that children’s services work better together and with parents and carers to help give children more opportunities and better support. It focuses on 5 outcomes:
to be healthy, to stay safe, to enjoy and achieve, to make a positive contribution, to achieve economic wellbeing.
This means bringing services together into single settings like children’s centres (birth-5) and schools.
An extended school provides a range of services and activities to meet the needs of children, families and the wider community.
There is no one solution – by consulting with parents, schools will be able to develop the package that best meets the needs of the local community.
Primary schools are not all expected to offer extended services on their own sites – instead it will mean working with a range of local providers to enable children and families to have access to extended services.
Secondary schools will be open from 8am – 6pm all year around, offering a range of activities for young people.
The core offer for delivery in all schools by 2010 (and by 2008 in at least half of primaries and a third of secondaries):
High quality childcare provided on site or through local providers, with suitable transfer arrangements where appropriate, available 8am-6pm all year round
Redriff Primary, Rotherhithe set up a breakfast club for children to play and meet their friends in a safe, calm environment and provided children with a regular, healthy breakfast. Funded by charity HealthFirst
A varied menu of activities eg homework clubs, study support, sport, music tuition, dance, drama, arts, crafts, visits to museums and galleries
At Eltham Green School, Police Constable Dougie Cameron incorporated the school and campus into his beat. He provided sessions on surfing safely on the internet and PSHE lessons. This increased the links between police, families and the school
Parenting support including info sessions for parents at key transition points, parenting programmes run with the support of other children’s services and family learning sessions
At Wensley Fold Cof E Primary they developed a systematic approach to welcoming parents into the school. A range of initiatives were introduced, all focusing on increasing parents’ involvement in school life and their children’s learning. Examples included: family reading sessions, maths, literacy and spelling workshops for Years 1, 2 and 3, ‘Share’ scheme for Year 4 parents to discuss the curriculum. A 6-week transition programme for Year 6 pupils, run in partnership with local secondary school, prepares parents for Key Stage 3
Swift and easy referral to a wide range of specialist support services eg speech therapy, child and adolescent mental health, behaviour support and (for young people) sexual health services
Also at Eltham Green, Julie Unitt, School Nurse with Special Interest, provides a weekly session at the Community Centre for young people, a confidential drop-in service (MOT for kids) for pupils and a 10-week course in childcare for ASDAN curriculum pupils. She works with counsellors from QUIT to provide a support group to stop smoking
Community access – providing wider access to ICT, sports and arts facilities including adult learning
Foxhollies Special School set up an inclusive community theatre group that meets once a week and runs an annual summer arts week with a mainstream school. Members run their own activities, plan performances, attract audiences and book venues. Pupils develop considerable confidence and independence from performing on stage

4. Why become an extended school? The benefits
What do extended schools achieve?
Motivate and enthuse pupils
Close the achievement gap
Ensure that children arrive at school ready to learn
Meet the five ECM outcomes
Reinvigorate local communities
What do extended schools do?
Build on the best existing practice in schools
Place children at the centre of a network of services which support their learning and wellbeing
Promote greater parental involvement in their children’s learning
Forge stronger links with the community

5. An Extended Schools Remodelling Programme has been developed building on the learning from workforce reform
Workforce reform
National Agreement
Remodelling
Extended Services
Every Child Matters
Schools and the other agencies working with children are the experts. What remodelling gives schools is a way of deciding what to do and how to achieve it
Remodelling is a structured change process which empowers schools to tackle their key issues in a way that reflects their individual circumstances
Over 20,000 schools engaged with remodelling to implement the National Agreement

6. Characteristics of extended schools remodelling
The programme is flexible – accommodating the different starting points of different schools and communities
There will be opportunities to work with other schools, the local authority and a wide range of other agencies delivering children’s services
There will be coherence with the wider Every Child Matters agenda and other initiatives affecting schools
Flexible
Collaborative
Coherent

7. The process takes approximately two terms to complete
The Extended Schools Remodelling Programme consists of four workshops held at key stages during the remodelling process
Workshop1
Mobilise & Discover
Workshop2
Discover & Deepen
Workshop3
Develop & Deliver
Workshop4
Deliver & Sustain
Workshops run by the Local Authority
Community events run by schools / clusters
Event 1
Identify Opportunities
Event 2
Develop Proposals
Event 3
Deliver Services
The process takes approximately two terms to complete

8. What you can expect from the programme:
You will get a fuller understanding of the local plans and national context for extended services in and around schools
You will understand the opportunities available for schools and communities and support available from the Local Authority
You will identify the priorities for extended services in your community and have a plan for their delivery
You will be shown practical tools and techniques that can help schools and other agencies in developing extended services
You will be able to identify and implement “quick wins” which benefit pupils, their families and communities
Working together in your community you will begin to deliver extended services
Understand the context
Understand the opportunities
Identify priorities
Learn practical tools
Make “quick wins”
Deliver extended services

9. Expectations of you: Expectations of you:
That you will be committed to exploring the benefits that extended services can bring to schools and the community
That you are willing to take opportunities and confront challenges on schools’ journeys towards the offer of extended services
That you have energy and commitment to the events and activities between the workshops
Commitment to the benefits
That you deliver access to the full core offer
Take opportunities and challenges
Commitment to the programme