Canterbury City & Country LCSP Extended Services
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Wider Community Access: Many of our schools provide access to their facilities for the local community; with include offering adult basic skills courses, other adult learning, access to community sports facilities, access to computers and ICT equipment, community arts projects and many other activities. Only 7 out of the 31 schools are not offering any community access on their sites at present.
The MACS team includes Social Workers, Learning Link Workers (who can help bridge the gap between home and school), Primary Health Workers who can support children and families with their emotional wellbeing and lastly Kent Safe Schools Officers who work in targeted schools delivering peer mentoring and youth action work.
The MACS team, along with the Special Educational Needs Coodinators (SENCo’s) in schools ensure every child has swift and easy access to the services they need. During the past two years, Extended Schools Managers have funded the development of both community and multi-agency rooms on school sites. These rooms have provided the space for children and their families to access services within the school and with support from the schools staff.
Wrap around Childcare: All our secondary schools within the Partnership offer a safe place for their learners to go before and after school. This could be in the form of organised activities, opening of their libraries and ICT suites or after school clubs (which unlike formal activities, are there to replicate a home-from-home experience).
The importance a healthy breakfast is recognised as a beneficial way for all children to start the day. To help families with this, the Partnership has 18 breakfast clubs, and in addition to this, all children at The Orchard School have breakfast every morning as part of the PSHE time.
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Varied Menu of Activities: All schools will be offering a good range of activities within the Partnership, and many linking with each other to offer join activities. A good example of this is the shares post 16 curriculum offered between our secondary schools. 21 of our schools are offering some of the following, and 10 are offering all of the following:
- Learning Support
- Homework Clubs
- Art Activities
- Sports Activities
- Mentoring Programmes
- Other organised activities
- Activities run from 8am
- Activities run till 6pm
- Parenting Support
 | All our schools have access to trained Parent Support Advisors (PSA’s), who work to support parents who are finding the education process challenging. |
In June and July the PSA’s ran 18 information sessions on transition from primary to secondary school for parents. They are also trained in and run parenting courses at different levels for parents to access.
Schools are offering family learning sessions, and family support sessions for parents on a needs basis. Extended Schools continues to fund family courses through the Children’s University, Dad’s and Lads workshops at Kent County Cricket Ground and lots more!
If you have any enquiries about Extended Schools, please contact the local Extended Schools Development Manager Steve Charman by phone on 01227 284564 / 07825 013372, or by email steve.charman@kent.gov.uk.
Below are some documents which you should find helpful:
Two PowerPoint presentations used by Steve Charman when delivering INSET on Extended Schools and School Improvement Planning (The new TDA Toolkit).
Extended Schools - An Overview
Children's Centres and Extended Schools
More documents
An Extended Services Toolkit for Governors
Ofsted Inspection of Extended Schools and Children's Centres (July 07)
Canterbury Consultation: Updated - A questionaire to help you find out what your needs are and see if they can be met by extending what is currently being offered by your local schools and agencies.
Thinking Family! Kent Children's Trust - A Strategy for Supporting Parents in Kent 2008
Our Study Centre is based in the Kent Cricket Academy building at the St Lawrence Ground in Canterbury - home to Kent County Cricket Club. It is funded by The Club, Kent County Council and The Department for Education.