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What are extended services?
Extended services are a variety of activities and services available to children, young people, families and the wider community, usually in local schools or through other community venues. It is often provided beyond the school day.
The government wants every school to be offering its local community access to specific additional activities and services. The Government calls these a 'core offer' of services they include:
- Childcare: Which is available from at least 8am to 6pm. This may be on the school site or may be provided at a nearby school, local provider or child-minder. Included are breakfast clubs, holiday play schemes and after school clubs.
- Varied menu of activities: which allow children and Young people to learn and develop outside normal school hours by pursuing special interest or trying out new things in a fun, stimulating and safe environment, e.g. sports activity clubs, language classes, homework clubs, arts activities. Some of these might be provided by existing clubs that are on or near the school site.
- Parental Support: which gives parents access to information and guidance on issues that may affect their children and the wider family, including, relationships, drugs and alcohol, training opportunities etc. Also Parent Support Advisers (PSAs) and Family Liaison Officers (FLOs) are available through schools to support parents and carers. This support will provide opportunities for parents to learn alongside their children e.g. family learning sessions, parenting groups.
- Community Access: Wider community access to school facilities including IT, sports arts, adult learning etc.
- Swift and Easy Referral: provides access to a wide range of specialist services and information.
St Thomas More Cluster
Extended services core offer is being delivered through a cluster of schools. St Thomas More Cluster includes 10 schools. Each school is part of the same cluster and works in partnership to provide extended services full core offer.
The schools include:
St Thomas More Catholic Upper School
For more information of work carried out by other cluster schools please contact your local cluster co-ordinator or click on the appropriate link above or click on Contact us (top right page). Details can be obtain via schools.