1.CORE OFFER
(a) Which schools are you targeting for Full Core Offer status for
Sept 08 / Sept 09 / Sept 2010
(b) What are you doing to challenge and support schools to achieve their targets?
(c) How sustainable is this?
(d) How do you monitor the quality of provision? a) All schools now have full core offer status and the Governance Committee and the Steering Group had expressed an interest in applying for the Quality Mark when ready as a partnership to improve the quality of the full core delivery and this point is marked ‘priority’ on both agendas for next meetings. This success is due to the hard work of the coordinator and the strategic lead, building on the strong partnership work already evident within the Catholic partnership
b) To continue the challenge to schools the profile of the partnership and the collaboration of all the schools to sustain delivery of extended services within the partnership the partnership team will continue to raise the profile of extended services through a range of high profile events.
e.g.
i) building a ‘virtual village’ in Africa by raising £5,000 over the next year to give to CAFOD.
ii) A collective snapshot on the 12th of every month to create a booklet of the ‘Catholic Partnership’ – ‘Our Collective Twelve’.
iii) A celebration at the Sage, Gateshead to celebrate the successes of the Partnership – includes choirs, dance groups, the high school show, singing and drama from young people right across the schools. A final song will be sung by all participants to celebrate ‘we’re all in this together!’
iv) Website: this is now up and running and being maintained by an external agency for the next 6 months. The partnership is looking to extend this service if company is efficient. This website has proved to be an excellent signposting vehicle and has been well received.
iv) ECM outcomes boards - 6 boards have now been made and the remainder will be delivered by the end of June 2008. During one Ofsted inspection at St Benedicts, they saw these boards and liked them a lot. The main aim is that Every child is on Every core offer bar chart. Names to be placed on each colour of the bar
chart.
Most of the boards are either in their main hall, dining rooms or reception
areas and are clearly visible for parents/carers as well as young people
and staff at school helping to raise the profile of the ECM outcomes  
c) SUSTAINABILITY
All of the above look at culture change rather than short one-off projects. The volunteers that have been trained will enhance resource bank to deliver what the partnership hope to achieve and what the families wish for, the governance committee will allow the accountability and equal representation including a bigger opportunity to attract external funding.
The High School has also have recently appointed a Business Manager to run the sister company ‘Benet’s Enterprises’ – this company in founded on the social enterprise ethos, The business manager will support the sustainability of the extended services agenda through working with local businesses to identify any possible sources of support. d) MONITORING
Monitoring is achieved through regular communication with the schools, including regular visits by the coordinator. As part of these visits, performance sheets within folders are updated.
A community of enquiry – run by our young people from the partnership, supported by Joanne Nugent will be used as a method of indicating if culture change is happening, as this checks knowledge and understanding of key partners.
Extended Services is embedded in all school SEF forms, with this being supported by the coordinators input
Extended Services is a standing item on the agenda of the Heads of Partnership meetings to ensure, that collectively, the partnership is moving forward.
2. VARIED MENU OF ACTIVITY
(a) How are you delivering on the varied menu of activity?
(b) 5 hours sport?
(c) 5 hours culture?
(d) ISYP?
(e) Curriculum design/innovations?
a) Delivery of varied menu
All schools are delivering varied menu of activity but planned road shows are just about to start to engage community and out of school hours. Some examples of good practice to illustrate this include;
• Volunteers are being trained up to deliver across the schools.
• Transitional activities between schools including summer camps, fun challenge days and sports days in the new schools. These are now being progressed to include parents for instance on the 7th July 2008 there will be a sports challenge held at St Benet Biscop for present years 6, 7 and 8 who will be coming up to the school in September 2008.
• Volunteers have been trained up to deliver playground games in lunch times to first school children – the Schools Sports Development team have now developed this.
• Website signposts all to their geographic leisure activities delivered through leisure centres or local district council
• A very strong partnership has been developed with the Bedlington Youth Partnership and Trinity Youth to help provide activities for the 13+. Further discussions now taking place with Trinity to look at the 9 – 13 range.
b) 5 hours of sports
The partnership is beginning to address delivery of 5 hours of support through a range on innovative partnership working.
e.g.
• Carl Anderson, Street Games has joined the steering group to help with this area.
• 4 Street Dancers have been trained to deliver this offer (dance is included in sport) and May 08 there will be a ‘drop-in’ with both Carl Anderson and NE Music Factory recruiting participants in Junior Sports Leadership, Handball, Street Cheer and Dance Leadership Awards.
• The partnership is working with Northumberland Sports to participate in a Triathalon event in September 2008 – looking at increasing the use of the bike.
• 2 adult volunteers are being trained by Sustrans to do Bike Maintenance and Leadership to take families out on cycle trips.
b) 5 hours of culture
The partnership is beginning to address delivery of 5 hours of culture through a range on innovative partnership working.
e.g.
• Road show will incorporate local culture and art, using local artists and local schools – youth workers from Bedlington Youth Project will be involved with this.
• The coordinator was recently involved in the successful bidding for the Cultural Arts Volunteering funding and through this 6 volunteers are being trained to become deliverers of the Arts Awards – this will be linked with Creative Partnerships
• Within the partnership transition plan projects are being developed with first schools (at the moment St Roberts and St Aidans) looking at culture through dance, dress and food and delivering this to families and young people at the middle schools (St Benedict’s)
• Recently involved 32 young people from the high school to help support and deliver arts and crafts on a full programme for a whole week in St Bede’s First School, Bedlington (including an igloo out of willow)
c) ISYP
• The young people who have been trained on Street Cheer are now going to work with targeted young females on a Friday night who are presently ‘spectators’ of the boys football in Gallagher Park.
• Extended Services Co-ordinator is working with the Advanced Youth Practitioner in Prudhoe to deliver the next Community Volunteering award to NEETS. We presently have 12 signed up.
• Our staffing structure and premises are very integrated. We now have jointly paid for a new office in the youth room to become the ‘extended services’ centre incorporating youth. There are 2 members of staff who are paid for jointly by Extended Services and the Bedlington Youth Partnership.
1.CORE OFFER
(a) Which schools are you targeting for Full Core Offer status for
Sept 08 / Sept 09 / Sept 2010
(b) What are you doing to challenge and support schools to achieve their targets?
(c) How sustainable is this?
(d) How do you monitor the quality of provision?
a) All schools now have full core offer status and the Governance Committee and the Steering Group had expressed an interest in applying for the Quality Mark when ready as a partnership to improve the quality of the full core delivery and this point is marked ‘priority’ on both agendas for next meetings. This success is due to the hard work of the coordinator and the strategic lead, building on the strong partnership work already evident within the Catholic partnership
b) To continue the challenge to schools the profile of the partnership and the collaboration of all the schools to sustain delivery of extended services within the partnership the partnership team will continue to raise the profile of extended services through a range of high profile events.
e.g.
i) building a ‘virtual village’ in Africa by raising £5,000 over the next year to give to CAFOD.
ii) A collective snapshot on the 12th of every month to create a booklet of the ‘Catholic Partnership’ – ‘Our Collective Twelve’.
iii) A celebration at the Sage, Gateshead to celebrate the successes of the Partnership – includes choirs, dance groups, the high school show, singing and drama from young people right across the schools. A final song will be sung by all participants to celebrate ‘we’re all in this together!’
iv) Website: this is now up and running and being maintained by an external agency for the next 6 months. The partnership is looking to extend this service if company is efficient. This website has proved to be an excellent signposting vehicle and has been well received.
iv) ECM outcomes boards - 6 boards have now been made and the remainder will be delivered by the end of June 2008. During one Ofsted inspection at St Benedicts, they saw these boards and liked them a lot. The main aim is that Every child is on Every core offer bar chart. Names to be placed on each colour of the bar
chart.
Most of the boards are either in their main hall, dining rooms or reception
areas and are clearly visible for parents/carers as well as young people
and staff at school helping to raise the profile of the ECM outcomes.
c) SUSTAINABILITY
All of the above look at culture change rather than short one-off projects. The volunteers that have been trained will enhance resource bank to deliver what the partnership hope to achieve and what the families wish for, the governance committee will allow the accountability and equal representation including a bigger opportunity to attract external funding.
The High School has also have recently appointed a Business Manager to run the sister company ‘Benet’s Enterprises’ – this company in founded on the social enterprise ethos, The business manager will support the sustainability of the extended services agenda through working with local businesses to identify any possible sources of support.
d) MONITORING
Monitoring is achieved through regular communication with the schools, including regular visits by the coordinator. As part of these visits, performance sheets within folders are updated.
A community of enquiry – run by our young people from the partnership, supported by Joanne Nugent will be used as a method of indicating if culture change is happening, as this checks knowledge and understanding of key partners.
Extended Services is embedded in all school SEF forms, with this being supported by the coordinators input
Extended Services is a standing item on the agenda of the Heads of Partnership meetings to ensure, that collectively, the partnership is moving forward.
2. VARIED MENU OF ACTIVITY
(a) How are you delivering on the varied menu of activity?
(b) 5 hours sport?
(c) 5 hours culture?
(d) ISYP?
(e) Curriculum design/innovations?
a) Delivery of varied menu
All schools are delivering varied menu of activity but planned road shows are just about to start to engage community and out of school hours. Some examples of good practice to illustrate this include;
• Volunteers are being trained up to deliver across the schools.
• Transitional activities between schools including summer camps, fun challenge days and sports days in the new schools. These are now being progressed to include parents for instance on the 7th July 2008 there will be a sports challenge held at St Benet Biscop for present years 6, 7 and 8 who will be coming up to the school in September 2008.
• Volunteers have been trained up to deliver playground games in lunch times to first school children – the Schools Sports Development team have now developed this.
• Website signposts all to their geographic leisure activities delivered through leisure centres or local district council
• A very strong partnership has been developed with the Bedlington Youth Partnership and Trinity Youth to help provide activities for the 13+. Further discussions now taking place with Trinity to look at the 9 – 13 range.
b) 5 hours of sports
The partnership is beginning to address delivery of 5 hours of support through a range on innovative partnership working.
e.g.
• Carl Anderson, Street Games has joined the steering group to help with this area.
• 4 Street Dancers have been trained to deliver this offer (dance is included in sport) and May 08 there will be a ‘drop-in’ with both Carl Anderson and NE Music Factory recruiting participants in Junior Sports Leadership, Handball, Street Cheer and Dance Leadership Awards.
• The partnership is working with Northumberland Sports to participate in a Triathalon event in September 2008 – looking at increasing the use of the bike.
• 2 adult volunteers are being trained by Sustrans to do Bike Maintenance and Leadership to take families out on cycle trips.
b) 5 hours of culture
The partnership is beginning to address delivery of 5 hours of culture through a range on innovative partnership working.
e.g.
• Road show will incorporate local culture and art, using local artists and local schools – youth workers from Bedlington Youth Project will be involved with this.
• The coordinator was recently involved in the successful bidding for the Cultural Arts Volunteering funding and through this 6 volunteers are being trained to become deliverers of the Arts Awards – this will be linked with Creative Partnerships
• Within the partnership transition plan projects are being developed with first schools (at the moment St Roberts and St Aidans) looking at culture through dance, dress and food and delivering this to families and young people at the middle schools (St Benedict’s)
• Recently involved 32 young people from the high school to help support and deliver arts and crafts on a full programme for a whole week in St Bede’s First School, Bedlington (including an igloo out of willow)
c) ISYP
• The young people who have been trained on Street Cheer are now going to work with targeted young females on a Friday night who are presently ‘spectators’ of the boys football in Gallagher Park.
• Extended Services Co-ordinator is working with the Advanced Youth Practitioner in Prudhoe to deliver the next Community Volunteering award to NEETS. We presently have 12 signed up.
• Our staffing structure and premises are very integrated. We now have jointly paid for a new office in the youth room to become the ‘extended services’ centre incorporating youth. There are 2 members of staff who are paid for jointly by Extended Services and the Bedlington Youth Partnership.
e) Curriculum design/innovations See above.
As a Business and Enterprise college the partnership have always looked at innovative ways of delivering social enterprise and sustainability. By setting up an independent company ‘Benet’s Enterprises’ with its own premises (The Oval, Bedlington) another dimension to extended services is being introduced. This is being supported through funding from the Cooperative Society. The premises (new refurbished and extremely well equipped) will provide another training area for staff, students and volunteers). Lindsey Archbold is our newly appointed business manager and comes with a wealth of experience and local knowledge. This will undoubtedly prove to be an asset in all areas of extended services. The pilot adult and young person volunteer project has proved so successful that there is an intention to deliver the course twice in the next academic year, September 08 – January 09 and February 09– July 09. This is in partnership with other clusters and so will greatly enhance delivery opportunities and therefore sustainability. 3. SWIFT AND EASY ACCESS/ CAF
(a) How are you contributing to the Integrated FACT team work?
(b) Have all your schools completed CAF training?
(c) What support do you need to embed this in your partnership? a) Integrated FACT team work
A wide range of partners are now on the partnership steering group, including Kay Yeo (Care Trust), Angela Cunningham (senior EWO), Diane Williamson (Early Years), Mary Evans (Children’s Centre). The strategic lead is continuing to strengthen links with the FACT team manager, including discussions on how the young people who attend schools in the Catholic partnership will access support. b) CAF training
St Benet’s has a trained CAF person and all schools have committed to the training either through the county or the twilight sessions that have been set up in conjunction with Carol Leckie – this session will also be publicised to other partnerships. c) Support needed
It is hoped that once the training has been completed, then support will come through links with the FACT teams and staff helping each other (without breach of confidentiality) to completed a CAF. The person trained at present is St Benet Biscop’s SENCO. In addition, this staff member has links with each of the relevant SENCOs in the partnership first and middle schools. 4. PARENTING SUPPORT AND FAMILY LEARNING
(a) How are you targeting resources/staffing to ensure schools deliver this aspect of the core offer?
(b) Any targeted work to support more vulnerable parents?
(c) How are you collating evidence to demonstrate impact?
a) Delivery
The partnership have part funded a member of staff with the youth department to deliver family learning to the ‘Intervention Group’. The new Extended Services Assistant has a clear focus on parenting and family support. A part-time member of staff (paid and supported by the Youth department) was appointed to deliver the road show around the County. This will provide information and support for all parents
A robust volunteering system of training/skilling volunteers to deliver especially on family learning days including 17 now trained in KNEX, Face-painting and textiles. Some volunteers have also been trained in film work to create films with the young people and some in cycle leadership to encourage families and outdoor pursuits together. All of the volunteers are helping on the 7th June at the Super Family Fun/learning day at Druridge Bay.
All parents have been made aware of the website that has up to date information and signposting.
Other examples of delivery include incorporating outside/external agencies where necessary including e-learning at St Roberts, Parenting Initiatives, Food Co-op and Healthy Meals in a Hurry, Absolute Energy and the delivery of peer/parent massage.
b) Targeted support for the vulnerable
The recent Community Volunteering course comprises of vulnerable adults and we have seen a major self-esteem enhancement with all these participants. The growth in their confidence is reflected in the fact that is their publicity of the programme that has led to six new parents on the waiting list for September 2008.
Because of the geographical spread of the partnership it is recognised that there will have to be work with school based PSP’s and Third Sector to ‘buy in’ support to identified vulnerable families
The High School has a robust intervention programme with identified young people not reaching their potential academic grades. This programme works with the parents/carers to increase communication and partnership work.
WP and LH in discussion with Home Start, In-Pact, NSPCC and Barnardo’s to look at supporting 1-1 with the most vulnerable families right across our partnership. A steering group is being developed to implement this. c) Collating evidence/Demonstrating impact
• Two parent volunteers now working with their family to build self-esteem together and therefore becoming more of a family unit.
• Thank you letters/cards from parents who have participated.
• Hits on the website
• Attendance at volunteer training is maintained (all volunteers except two have 100% attendance to the Asdan award).
Parents/carers who have signed up to any workshops/activities have attended and registrations kept.
• Parent forum reports and evaluations. 5. TARGETED INTERVENTION, EARLY INTERVENTION AND PREVENTION
(a) What are your priority areas for development?
(b) What early intervention and preventative approaches are you using? a) Intervention project at St Benet Biscop High School to include 80 young people (year 9 and 10) who are not reaching their potential in literacy and numeracy. In school, staff are implementing regular booster classes whilst Extended Services are carrying out activities/projects to enhance this. These include 10-week drama programme build self-esteem through drama, priority given to this group in RocksCool project, a journalist course (including visit to Evening Chronicle) with young people doing their own youth e-magazine, and a family learning tree. These sessions are interspersed with regular updates to parents at wine, cheese and lager evenings and family trips out including rock-climbing at Newburn and raft building at Bolam Lake.
Transition – a robust programme to help overcome worries through movement to another school especially since the young people are usually travelling to different localities. b) i) Rainbows – once young people have been identified ‘at risk’.
ii) Self-esteem programmes
iii) Main focus on the federation between Ss Paul and Peters and St Benet Biscop as the latest cohort of young people may feel isolated being the only year 7 and 8’s to be on the high school site. The young people visited the HS and carried out a Community of Enquiry, participated in team-building activities, visited the school in an informal arena and are due to re-visit on July 7th for a sports challenge, BBQ and family challenge evening.
iv) Preventative work delivered through activities delivered in all schools by the Young Ambassadors 6. PARTNERSHIP STRUCTURE
(a) How is your partnership structure developing?
(b) Have you completed your partnership agreement?
(c) How are you consulting with your community about their needs?
(d) Have you held stakeholder events/meetings? a) Partnership development
Steering group now has members from sports, Third Sector, Early Years, governance group, Children’s Centres, parents, young people, head teachers, school staff. Extended Services Strategic Lead and Co-ordinator regularly attend Heads of Partnership meetings to update on Extended Services.
Governance committee
There is now a governance body that represents all heads of schools and a link governor. The group has voluntary constitution, which will help to gain external funding, remain focused, involve all within our partnership. An independent bank account is in the process of being established – this will allow any funds outside of those allocated by county to be kept separate. The partnership is running CRB clearances through this committee enabling volunteers and staff to work across all the schools with just 1 police check.
b) Yes. Carol Leckie has electronic copy
c) Yes. The partnership are carrying out ongoing Community of Enquiry activities and training. Individual schools are sending out questionnaires and these are always made available to the partnership staff.
d) Yes. There are meetings arranged with the governance group and the steering group for the next year. The partnership also made a major contribution to the Third Sector workshops to enhance partnership work. 7. STAFFING STRUCTURE
(a) Is your revised structure in place?
(b) How is it working?
(c) What support might your revised team need from the LA?
a) Yes and this has been enhanced through partnership work with Bedlington Youth.
Strategic Lead – Wendy Parker (also assistant head teacher at St Benet Biscop High School). Main focus on Swift and Easy
Extended Services Coordinator – Lyn Horton (full time throughout year)
Assistant Extended Services Coordinator – Paula Walker (full time throughout year) with an absolute focus on families.
Link youth worker – Maria Oliver (part-funded with the Bedlington Youth Partnership) with focus on intervention group and admin.
Link youth worker – Andrew McDougal (part-funded and part-time with Bedlington Youth Partnership) with focus on the family road shows and young people’s celebration
University Student Placement (300 hours until September 2008) to work with some of the intervention group on film and youth news.
Excellent voluntary support from some governors, volunteers, schools staff.
b) The team works extremely well and has great strength, in terms of both management and delivery. Members meet regularly to ensure the partnership plan is actioned correctly, with each member having a specific focus. The new Assistant ESCO comes with a wealth of experience especially with vulnerable young people and parents including teenage pregnancy issues, welfare rights, isolation and she also has a good knowledge of the Third Sector that compliments our ESCO who has a good youth work and education knowledge. All of the Extended Services team, the Bedlington Youth Partnership and two members of Trinity are to attend a ‘team-building’ 2-day residential in July 2008 to enhance this. Lyn Horton and newly appointed Youth Advanced Practitioner to attend a 2-day leadership course together at Brathway residential in July 2008. c) The partnership would welcome any other cluster training and team-building opportunities. 8. GOOD PRACTICE
• Youth and family led
• Good communication between Heads of Partnership, Steering Group and Governance Committee.
• Each member of the team has a strong focus and has a variety of background experiences from all fields.
• Good signposting through an up-to-date website.
• Celebration – recognising individuals and families achievements and effort.
• Collective success with partnership events such as the ‘Walk 4 Water’ event. All schools will have a barometer to keep up to date. The launch is on the 7th June in Druridge Bay ‘Walk 4 Water’. All schools have opted to take part and are designing their A3 poster and collecting sponsorship money. This is to be backed up by a study visit to South Africa in December by WP and LH with six students from the high school. The head of business enterprise is also going and we are looking at social enterprise through the cooperative movement
• Youth news: a group identified from the intervention project are now working with a university placement student on producing a regular e-mag for youth voice. They have already visited the Evening Chronicle and are due to take a Kron page on 7th September 2008 (a broadsheet that will have a 50,000 print run). They are at present being trained by the University student in the use of computers, film, radio etc and they have been nominated to attend a RadioWaves 3-day residential in October 2008.
• Adult and Young People volunteers - ‘Grow our own’. The partnership now has 12 adults/parents who have nearly completed their Certificate in Community Volunteering (CCV Asdan award equivalent to a double GCSE grade B). In addition to this, they are now all CRB checked, have completed the Child Protection L1 on-line, health and safety including risk assessments and emergency procedures, drugs and alcohol misuse, equal opportunities and diversity. They have also been trained to deliver family sessions in KNEX, Cycle Proficiency and Bike Maintenance, Face Painting, textile and art workshops. All of these volunteers are helping on the 7th June 2008 and two PSP’s, Gill Knight and Jackie Preece have given their time to support this project. The Coquet partnership has also worked with the Catholic Partnership and there are three parents on the course from Coquet. The Knex, Face painting and textile workshops were joint funded by the two partnerships.
• SEF/Community Cohesion – LH is now in the process of updating an individual folder for each school to help with their SEF and Ofsted (3 completed with remaining to be completed by July 08 and updated on a termly basis). Each folder carries information on their provision, individual action plans, local geographical information etc. LH also attending workshops on Community Cohesion to ensure partnership is ready for September 2008.
9. MISCELLANEOUS/ANY OTHER BUSINESS
The ESCO feels that this agenda would be a lot stronger if ALL the co-ordinators held a role to enhance a specific aspect of extended services. For instance, coordinator sits on steering groups for the corporate design, 3rd sector and the successful cultural volunteering fund-raising bid. She has also led the volunteer project with participants sent from 4 other partnerships and been leader for the Super Family Fun day.
Concern from both coordinator and Strategic Lead that it is always the same ESCO’s who support the corporate agenda rather than just their own partnership and feels others should now be encouraged to take a part in this as part of their role too.
The partnership link consultant has continued to be impressed by the tireless work of the coordinator and strategic lead. The appointment of a new assistant coordinator will also be a valuable addition to this excellent team.
Partnership is a real strength here - between the schools, with the staff appointed by the partnership to coordinate the agenda and with the wider community. Inclusion and sustainability are always high on the agenda when any initiatives are developed and this is a reflection of the partnerships full understanding of the extended services agenda.
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