Extended services e-news - Issue 22, Feb 2007
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Contents
Section one: news
Greetings
Training and consultancy for extended schools
Kellogg's Breakfast Masterclasses
Section two: documents and resources
ContinYou, New publications catalogue
Extended services supporting school improvement
Teaching and learning in 2020 review
Treasury review of policy for children and young people
Extended schools - improving access to sexual health services
Section three: conferences
ContinYou, The Schools of the future conference
Families for Our Times Conference, London
Haymarket, delivering well-funded extended schools
Section four: funding
Section One: News
Greetings!
Welcome back after the Christmas break and a Happy New Year to you all.
Training and consultancy for extended schools
ContinYou offers a wide range of tailor-made training and consultancy packages aimed at helping schools to deliver the core offer through effective partnerships with other agencies in their local communities.
These include:
- internal capacity audit
- identifying potential local partnerships
- training for school-based extended services managers
- consultation
- partnership support.
For more information on any of the above, visit www.continyou.org.uk/extendedschoolsconsultation or call Chris Jones on 07713 984678.
Kellogg's Breakfast Masterclasses.
We will be having another Masterclass session running in April 2007, which will be held in the North East of England. If you have a fledgling breakfast club or are about to set up a new club and would like to access free training along with £350 of funding from Kellogg's please contact:
Michelle Mead on 020 8709 9915 or email michelle.mead@continyou.org.uk
We will be posting any further information on our website shortly so do please keep checking:
Section two: Documents and resources
ContinYou, Catalogue 2007
We have recently published a new, extensive catalogue, which provides practical and affordable titles for those working to encourage community-based learning through health improvement projects, economic and community development work, and educational, out-of-school-hours and lifelong learning initiatives. To browse and purchase publications, please visit the ContinYou website:
www.continyou.org.uk/publications
Extended Services Supporting School Improvement
This latest document from DfES, released just before Christmas, tracks the key links between the provision of extended services and school improvement and contains examples of the best way to deliver services with this key objective in mind.
www.teachernet.gov.uk/docbank/index.cfm?id=10747
Teaching and Learning in 2020 Review
The report of the review group, headed up by Christine Gilbert has also just been published. It makes some clear statements reinforcing the need for parental involvement in children’s learning and the aspiration that children’s achievement shall not depend on socio-economic factors or postcode. It states strongly that schools cannot be the sole agent to ensure equality of opportunity and points to the variety of partnerships that are already being developed by extended schools.
Treasury Review of Policy for Children and Young People
The report of the treasury review was also published in January and points to the importance of incentivising early intervention and preventative measures in supporting children and family needs
www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/spending_review/spend_csr07/reviews/cyp_review/cypreview_index.cfm
Extended Schools – Improving Access to Sexual Health Services
Is another leaflet published in January to support staff in schools in providing sexual health services on the basis of good practice and existing experience
www.teachernet.gov.uk/docbank/index.cfm?id=10789
Section three: conferences
Schools of the future: the national conference on extended and integrated services - 27 and 28 March 2007, Holiday Inn, Stratford-upon-Avon.
This key national conference will explore the connections between extended services and the changes that Every Child Matters (ECM) and the move towards integrated children’s services are bringing about, especially in terms of settings and staffing. Schools and children’s centres are at the front line in providing the elements of the ‘core offer’ of extended services by 2010 – including study support, parenting support, community access, swift and easy referral, and childcare.
For more information contact: Chantelle Peat on 024 7658 8476 or e-mail chantelle.peat@continyou.org.uk or download the full conference flyer from our website: www.continyou.org.uk/schoolsofthefuture.
STOP PRESS: This conference is now sold out for two-day places but packages for day 1 or day 2 may be available.
Families for Our Times Conference, 12 March 2007
The QEII Conference Centre, Broad Sanctuary, Westminster, London, SW1P 3EE.
Families for Our Times is a National Family Learning Network conference in collaboration with BBC’s Child of Our Time team. This conference builds on the highly successful conferences of the previous two years. The NFLN has developed a strong working relationship with the BBC’s Child of Our Time team. The BBC's Child of Our Time is a landmark series that features a large number of families whose children were born around the millennium and who represent the widest possible range of genetic, social, geographical and ethnic backgrounds. The conference’s main aim is to examine the roles of families in supporting learning and exploring the current policy context and practice. We expect this conference to build on the success of the previous high profile conferences in the series, which has attracted high profile speakers.
For more information please contact Julie King e-mail jking@cflearning.org.uk or telephone 0121 773 3133.
Haymarket, Delivering well-funded extended schools, 17 April 2007
This conference, aims to offer solutions to the challenges you face when addressing the extended schools agenda.
It has three strands:
- Funding and Sustainability: Explore funding strategies to ensure your extended services are sustainable in the long term.
- Governance, Accountability and Partnerships: Consider ways of forming valuable partnerships that have clear lines of accountability established to ensure that your extended services are well governed.
- Measuring Impact and Assuring Quality: Discover how to quantify impact and demonstrate the quality of your extended services to prove that you really are making a difference.
For more information visit the Haymarket website: www.haymarketevents.com/conferences/?fuseaction=eventIntro&eventID=2825
Section four: funding
Funding Masterclasses
Bob Jennings, former teacher of the year and consultant working on a number of ContinYou projects, runs masterclasses in various parts of the country in order to support schools and local authorities in writing bids and securing funding for their innovative projects. To find out more please visit the website:
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