Belfast Model School For
Girls’
Full Service Extended Pilot
Children and Young Peoples Funding Package
‘To reduce underachievement and improve the life chances of children
and young people by enhancing their educational development and
fostering their health, well being and social inclusion through the
integrated delivery of the support and services necessary to ensure
every child has the best start in life.’
What is an Extended School
• Provides a range of activities before and after the school day
• Works closely with its local community, parents and other
agencies
• Policy built around 5 key themes of the 10 year children
strategy:
 Being Healthy,
 Enjoying, Learning and Achieving
 Living in Safety and with Stability,
 Experiencing Economic and Environmental Well-Being,
 Contributing Positively to Community and Society
What is a Full Service Extended
School?
• Actions across all thematic areas
• Focus now on networks rather than
individual schools
• Two DE Funded demonstration Projects
• Projects being formally evaluated by
Bearing Point (Prof Alan Dyson)
Full Service & Extended
Schools
The Health Dimension
Why be a healthy school?
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Healthy bodies = healthy minds
‘Readiness to learn’
Improved attendance
Improved behaviour
Lifestyle choices
Future generations
Process
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Steering Group established
Operational Team set up
Action Plan written
Awareness raising in school, home and
community
• Monitoring and evaluation conducted
Pupil, Parent / Carer
Learning Mentors
Form / Subject Teacher
Park Outreach
SENCO /
EWO
Pastoral VP
Head of Year /
Behaviour
Modification
Coordinator
SPSS
Social Services
Educational
Psychology
Structure prior to extended partnership working
Pupil, Parent / Carer
Learning Mentors
Form / Subject Teacher
Park Outreach
SENCO /
EWO
Pastoral VP
Behaviour
Modification
Coordinator
Head of Year /
Social Services
Educational
Psychology
FSES Coordinator
Family Link Coordinator
Family Attendance
Coordinator
After extending partnership working
SPSS
Support / Partners Transition Teacher
PLUS
Support/Partners
ISSUE
PARTNER
Self harm
Streetbeat, RAYS, PIPS
Anger Management
Alternatives
Parenting
Parents Advice Centre,
Barnardo’s, BELB.
Health Advice
One-Stop-Shop, Heartstart,
Health Promotion Agency,
Mandy Martin, School nurse
and dental service, HAZ,
Health and Well-being
forums.
Self esteem and at risk
behaviour
Strength-to-Strength,
Extern, PSNI, Youth Justice
Service, Belfast City
Council, Pathways, Include
Youth
Drugs Awareness
SHARPHE, SOLVE, FASA,
Jackie Burke
ISSUE
PARTNER
Learning Support
BMC, EGSA, Opportunity
Youth, Summer Scheme,
Easter Booster classes,
Coursework Clinic, Year 8
Reading Support, BELB
Youth Service, LINK Centre,
Pupil Support Unit.
Mental Health
Streetbeat, Trust Mental
Health Team, CALMS,
LAMP.
Young Carers
Lynne Nelson, Sue Cushan
(Trust)
Sexual Health
HYPE, SAMS, Surestart,
Brook.
Citizenship
Shelter, Stormont,
Neighbourhood
Partnerships, CEP’s
Michael White: Director of Education: Aberdeenshire
The provision of welfare and counselling services in
schools would free teachers to concentrate on
teaching and learning. Teachers would no longer
have to be drawn into a social worker role.”
ISSUE
PARTNER
Counselling
New Life Counselling
School Counsellor
Streetbeat
Contact Youth
Everton Complex
One Stop Shop
Opportunity Youth
CRUSE
WAVE
RAINBOW
Stress and Trauma Centre
(Deals with all issues
mentioned PLUS
bereavement and body
image issues).
School Partnerships
Transition Teachers are
working in all of our feeder
primary schools.
Activities with Health Dimension
• One Stop Shop
• Healthy School Activities: Fruit in Schools, Cook It
Programme, Breakfast Club, Healthy vending
machines.
• Sport and Outdoor Activity – GM Sport, Summer
Schemes, extra curricular activities.
• Mental Health - Counselling
• Smoking Cessation
• Drugs and Alcohol programmes
• Teenage Pregnancy
• Work with Parents on health issues.
• Healthy Eating cookery demonstration evening class.
Benefits for Schools
• Additional facilities and equipment
• Opportunities for staff development
• Collaboration with neighbouring schools and
youth provision
• Partnership working with community and
statutory agencies
• Awareness of the community and pupil
diversity
• Appreciation of the parents role
Benefits for Families
• Improvements in child behaviour and social
and health skills
• Better understanding of backgrounds and
needs
• Greater parental involvement with children’s
learning and development
• Opportunities to develop parenting skills and
discuss parenting issues
• More opportunities for adult education and
family learning
• Specialist support for families
Benefits for Communities
• Improved community planning and access to
essential health services
• Local career development opportunities
• Improved outcomes for families and children
• Closer relationships with school
Benefits for all Pupils
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Improved learning and achievement
Increased motivation and self-esteem
Improved access to specialist support
Positive attitude towards learning
Enhanced opportunities for learning new skills
and developing existing skills
• Improved health and well-being
“The purpose of a school is to help a family
educate a child”
Don Edgar , The Patchwork Nation