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Extended Services

What are schools offering? How can Premier Sport help?

What’s on offer depends on what local people and schools want and need.

Services and activities may be offered at the school itself or through partners at other sites.

Extended schools offer access to a wide range of services from 8am – 6pm, 48 weeks a year, including school holidays.

The core offer comprises of:

• Varied menu of activities (including play/recreation, sport, music, arts)
• Other special interest clubs, volunteering and business and enterprise activities, in a safe place, for primary and secondary schools
• Childcare 8am-6pm, 48 weeks a year for primary schools
• Parenting support including family learning
• Community access to facilities including sports facilities

Premier Sport Area Co-ordinators are working very closely around the UK to ensure that schools are fulfilling the Core Offer.

The Department for Education has compiled a report offering an overview of the research evidence on the outcomes that extended services can produce, and on how those services can be made most effective. It has something to say to all practitioners and decision makers who are working on extended services. However, it is particularly aimed at head teachers who are developing services in and around their schools.

The report draws on the work of the national extended services evaluation, which ran between 2009 and 2011. It summarises the findings of that evaluation, but synthesises this with evidence from the evaluation of the national full service extended schools initiative (which ran from 2003 to 2006), from evaluations of other ‘extended schools’ initiatives in the past decade, and from other relevant evaluations both in this country and elsewhere. The detailed evidence is not cited in the text, but an annotated bibliography is provided so that interested readers can follow up the primary sources for themselves.

The full report is avilable to download here:

Extended services in practice - A summary of evaluation evidence for head teachers (pdf)

If you would like to find out how Premier Sport can help your school please contact: info@premier.org Tel: 01953 499 040