Welcome to the Extended and Full Service Schools network webpage, where you will find lots of resources and further information from our recent event ‘Moving forward: Extended schools and services into the future’. The event was organised by Prof Liz Todd and Karen Laing of the Research Centre for Learning and Teaching and was supported by the Newcastle University Social Renewal Fund. The aim of the event was to provide schools and LAs with ideas, information, and contacts to continue to develop practice in extended schools and to look at the role of Newcastle and Manchester Universities in supporting this development.
Next steps
We plan from time to time to send out briefings on extended schools that would be similar in nature to this short document. If you would like to be put on a mailing list for this please send an email to Karen Laing
We would be happy to receive any feedback and ideas that you may have, either about the event, or about the future of extended services in general.
We are also happy to talk to you about helping you to develop or evaluate your services.
1. Powerpoint slides from the event
Alan Dyson, Professor of Education, Manchester University ‘Extended services: what do we know and where are we going?’. Alan’s presentation can be downloaded here
Alan Strachan, Director of Extended Services, Wallsend ‘Are we Panda’s or Dodo’s?’. Alan’s presentation can be downloaded here
Ruth Shand, Deb Wilson, Meirion Williams, Lisa Harrison, Solihull Extended Services 'Extended Services Success in Solihull – Collaboration'. Their presentation can be downloaded here
Sean Carter, Kent County Council ‘The Impact of Extended Services in Kent’. The handout from Sean’s workshop can be downloaded here
2. National research reports
There are a number of research reports that the team have produced over the last decade that can be downloaded here.
Extended services in practice - A summary of evaluation evidence for head teachers 2011
Extended services evaluation: The role of local authorities. Thematic review 2011
Extended Services Evaluation Reaching Disadvantaged Groups and Individuals Thematic Review 2010
Extended Schools Subsidy Pathfinder Evaluation Interim Report 2009 (full report)
Extended Schools Subsidy Pathfinder Evaluation Interim Report 2009 (summary)
Evaluation of the Full Service Extended Schools Initiative: Final Report 2007
Evaluation of the Full Service Extended Schools Initiative, Second Year: Thematic Papers 2006 (full report)
Evaluation of the Full Service Extended Schools Initiative, Second Year: Thematic Papers 2006 (summary)
Evaluation of the Full Service Extended Schools Project: End of First Year Report 2005 (full report)
Evaluation of the Full Service Extended Schools Project: End of First Year Report 2005 (summary)
Evaluation of the Extended Schools Pathfinder Projects 2004 (full report)
Evaluation of the Extended Schools Pathfinder Projects 2004 (summary)
A Study of the Extended Schools Demonstration Projects 2002 (full report)
A Study of the Extended Schools Demonstration Projects 2002 (summary)
3. Local evaluation reports
4. Articles
In this paper we look at the issue of who tends to decide what extended schools look like:
Cummings, Dyson and Todd.’ Towards extended schools? How education and other professionals understand community-oriented schooling’ can be downloaded here.
How can schools and LA’s go about evaluating the impact of a range of integrated services and provisions? We talk about our innovative approach to evaluation, and our version of theory of change evaluation, in the following article:
Dyson and Todd. ‘Dealing with complexity: theory of change evaluation and the full service extended schools initiative’ can be downloaded here.
5. Further resources
The summary of the discussions that took place at the event and the comments from post-its can be downloaded here
Further information about co-operative schools can be downloaded here
Book flyers can be downloaded here
Information about training and further events can be downloaded here
Further information about the Newcastle University Social Renewal theme can be found here [insert weblink]
Further information about the Centre for Learning and Teaching can be found here [insert weblink]
Photographs from the event can be viewed here
Prof David Leat and colleagues organised a day’s conference on May 1st 2012 on enquiry and area-based curricula. Resources from this conference can be found here. Many of the ideas from this conference are highly compatible with the aims of extended schools. If you would like to know more about enquiry and area-based curricula and to be put on the mailing list please email ulrike.thomas@ncl.ac.uk
Liz Todd, Alan Dyson and Karen Laing