Kingsmeadow Cluster

What is an Extended School?
Extended schools are schools that provide a range of services and activites often beyond the school day to help meet the needs of their pupils, families and the wider community. By 2010, as part of the Every Child Matters agenda, all schools are to offer access to the core offer of extended schools.
What are Extended Schools Clusters?
Within Gateshead, extended services are being developed in "clusters" made up of a group of primary schools and one secondary school. The clusters are named after the secondary school in that cluster. Special schools are also included in their geographical areas.
Kingsmeadow School is in the Kingsmeadow Cluster. This cluster is made up of the following schools:

  • Kingsmeadow Community School

  • Brighton Avenue Primary School

  • Caedmon Community Primary School

  • Dunston Hill Community Primary School

  • Dunston Riverside Community Primary School

  • Lobley Hill Primary School

  • St Aiden’s Church of England Primary School

  • Bensham Grove Community Nursery School

  • Eslington Primary School

What is the core offer?
There are five elements of the core offer of Extended Schools, which schools must provide as a cluster:

  • High quality wrap around childcare

  • Varied menu of activities

  • Parenting support and familiy learning

  • Swift and easy access to specialist services

  • Community access and ICT

Success in Gateshead
Gateshead is proud to be able to say that all of its schools are Extended Schools and are meeting the core offer across their clusters and was one of the first Local Authorities able to say that all their schools were Extended Schools, ahead of the government target of 2010.

Clusters are now working hard to further develop the services and activities they offer to their local communities.

Gateshead is working with the Training Development Agency on a project to develop community access to school facilities and to make Extended School provision an integral part of School Improvement Planning, this work will begin in November 2008.

For more information of extended school developments within Gateshead visit: http://www.extended.org.uk/

 

  
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