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Extended schools (Northern Ireland)

Discover the benefits of extended schools in Northern Ireland, offering a continuum of services for students and communities. Learn about stakeholder involvement, outcomes, and how these schools improve learning standards and life chances.

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Extended schools (Northern Ireland)

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  1. Extended schools (Northern Ireland) Education and Library Board Co-ordinator:

  2. Stakeholders • Teachers active professional • Children co-producer • Parents skilled and interested party • Community ‘real people’

  3. What are extended schools? • Community focussed • Outcome focussed • Collaborative • Committed to improved learning standards • Complete range of activities according to need • Constantly evaluating so how are they different????????

  4. Why should extended schools be established? • Services and activities located in, or signposted by, schools can remove barriers to teaching and learning. • Greater uptake of these by children and their parents. • Greater parental/community involvement and opportunity for development. • More cost effective. • Wider remit for learning and lifelong learning.

  5. Why should extended schools be established? Results: • Improved attendance. • Decrease in discipline problems. • Improved accreditation. • Promotes inclusion. • Enriches communities.

  6. Continuum of provision *No service    *Full delivery service delivery Other agencies School nurse PTA EWO service Careers’ officers Youth initiatives Healthy schools ICT initiative Breakfast club Afterschool clubs Parenting initiatives

  7. Types of services being delivered. • Extended school day. • Locating health professionals within the school. • Counselling service. • Locating social services within the school. • Co-delivering with other professionals areas of the curriculum. • Parental support.

  8. Services con. • Voluntary organisations delivering specialist programmes. • Links with businesses. • Partnerships with community groups. • Locating services for communities within the school e.g public library • Crisis intervention. AND MANY OTHERS

  9. 6.3 The alignment of education with other service providers, and collaboration with the voluntary, community and private sectors. 6.7 ..working together to develop new, co-ordinated arrangements for the joint delivery of services to children and young people. Review of Public Administration

  10. Children and Young Peoplefunding package • ‘greater co-operation between Departments and their agencies to secure more effective services through integrated service delivery. • Total funding: £28.4 million and then £33.3 million • Area based and client based • DE – lead department

  11. Con. • To reduce underachievement and improve life chances – through integrated delivery of the support and services necessary • Key themes: • Extended schools • Extended early years provision • LAC and vulnerable young adults • Youth provision • Child protection • SEN and disabilities

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