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Belfast Model School For Girls’

Belfast Model School For Girls’. Full Service Extended Pilot. Children and Young Peoples Funding Package.

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Belfast Model School For Girls’

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  1. Belfast Model School For Girls’ Full Service Extended Pilot

  2. 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.’

  3. 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

  4. 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)

  5. Full Service & Extended Schools The Health Dimension

  6. Why be a healthy school? • Healthy bodies = healthy minds • ‘Readiness to learn’ • Improved attendance • Improved behaviour • Lifestyle choices • Future generations

  7. Process • Steering Group established • Operational Team set up • Action Plan written • Awareness raising in school, home and community • Monitoring and evaluation conducted

  8. Pupil, Parent / Carer Learning Mentors Form / Subject Teacher Park Outreach SENCO / Behaviour Modification Coordinator EWO Pastoral VP Head of Year / SPSS Social Services Educational Psychology Structure prior to extended partnership working

  9. Pupil, Parent / Carer Learning Mentors Form / Subject Teacher Park Outreach SENCO / Behaviour Modification Coordinator EWO Pastoral VP Head of Year / SPSS Social Services Educational Psychology FSES Coordinator Support / Partners Transition Teacher Family Link Coordinator Family Attendance Coordinator After extending partnership working PLUS

  10. Support/Partners

  11. 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.”

  12. 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.

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. Benefits for all Pupils • 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

  17. “The purpose of a school is to help a family educate a child” Don Edgar , The Patchwork Nation

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