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About the Headington Partnership

In-Tents Fest finale
28 June 2007
Oxford School

The 8 schools in Headington (you can meet us all on the 'Schools in the Partnership' page) have worked as a Partnership for several years, committed to collaborating for the sake of the children, young people and families in this area of north-east Oxford. With the development of Extended Services, we now liaise with other services more actively and benefit from the presence of the Slade & Headington and the Roundabout Children’s Centres. The City Council and many community and voluntary groups are also involved in providing learning and leisure activities for the benefit of all.

Click here to read our full Partnership Aims. You may find them a bit wordy and, of course, they are focussed on raising aspirations and achievement, but also recognise the need for schools to play a central role in the community, in supporting families and ensuring that Every Child Matters. By working in partnership, we believe that we can develop and advance teaching and learning, staff development, enrichment activities and all aspects of a 'learning community'.

Every Child Matters!

Festival of Voices
Dorchester Abbey

Click to visit the ECM web site.

Extended Services are a key factor in ensuring our schools can achieve the five declared ECM outcomes for all children and young people :

be healthy
stay safe
enjoy and achieve
make a positive contribution
achieve economic well being

So just what are Extended School Services?

They are services around the school, but maybe not as you know it! The schools must consult regularly with parents, young people and other community members and then aim to provide, either themselves or through other agencies or just give information about, a range of services, activities and support. The official ‘core offer’ for all schools involves:

8am-6pm childcare and/or a 'safe place to be' for older children, during term time and the school holidays
a range of activities after school, including help with homework
help for you as a parent & chances to learn together as a family
support for you and your child as soon as possible, from the right people
access to school facilities, where suitable, for learning

Cheney pupils with a scrapbook
made for Nzuluwazi School, South Africa

In Headington, there is already so much available through the Children’s, Youth and Community Centres, churches and other voluntary groups, it is often just a case of letting you know what and where, but there are also gaps which we hope to fill, by working together with health, youth, social and other services.

Headington Partnership employs a team of four staff, who you can read about on the 'Meet the team' page: Extended Services Coordinator, Home School Community Link Worker, Transition Learning Mentor and Counsellor. We of course work closely with the staff in each school to ensure necessary information is shared and there isn’t repetition of support. We need your feedback as to whether the system works for you.

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