The Background
Seaton Valley Learning Partnership
Extended Services
The Seaton Valley Learning Partnership work together with local communities, parents, carers, voluntary groups other agencies and organisations along with Northumberland County Council & Blyth Valley Borough Council services on the agenda of Extended Services. Astley Community High School is the high school for the partnership along with the two middle schools, the five First Schools and together with Atkinson Special School form the geographical region. Our aim is to work more closely together to support and enhance the life chances for children and young people enabling them to reach their full potential. Together we can build on existing activities and develop new exciting opportunities and plans.
Many of the schools along with the community and voluntary groups in the villages of Seaton Valley are already providing many of the requirements for extended services. Government have set a target for all schools in Northumberland to provide the full core offer by 2008. We are pleased to announce that Seaton Valley Learning Partnership of schools have all successful gained ‘full core offer’ status from July 2008.
The Various Roles Covered by Extended Services
The role of Extended Service Coordinator is to support the schools within the partnership along with the relevant communities, agencies and businesses by;
- Identifying provision and gaps in service
- Full involvement consultation and planning
- Developing networks and links with organizations and services
- Support access to information, training, funding and resources
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Identify and support sustainability
Childcare
- Quality affordable childcare
- Available 8am to 6pm 48 weeks
- Provided on school site or signposted to local providers
- Available 8am to 6pm all year round including holidays
- Homework clubs, study support
- Sport, music dance and drama, arts and crafts
- Visits to museums and galleries, volunteering, business and enterprise activities
- A safe place to be
- Integrated working between schools and specialist services, sharing responsibility for children and working together on how to resolve them.
- Preventative work, early identification, in-school support, referral
- Behavioural, emotional, health or other difficulties
- School facilities accessible, where possible, for community needs
- IT, sports and arts facilities
- Youth and adult learning & leisure provision
- Information sessions at key transition points
- Parenting programmes, support, advice, information
- Family learning and activities
- School attendance and exclusions
Each of the schools and the communities are providing in house a wide variety programme of activities and these can be seen individually through their websites or on the Extended Service Notice Board situated in each of the schools.
Along with the Extended Service Coordinator we have two further members of staff within the team providing support. Liliana Ghilardi is our Full Time Parent Partner who provides a wide programme of family fun and learning activities, a number of parent information courses along with the valuable one to one support for parenting issues. Dorothy Lewis, works every Friday to provide information on the many exciting volunteering opportunities available for parents and young people to take part in. Diane Brown, Extended Services Coordinator, would like to hear from you if you are a young person or a family member of Seaton Valley, as this Extended Services provision is tailored to the needs of the people who use the services. Please keep a look out for our Seaton Valley Extended Services website which will, in due course, have a link to this site.
For more information on Extended Services, please contact any member of the team listed below.
Extended Services Team
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| Diane R Brown Extended Services Coordinator Tel: 07771 632 511, diane.brown@northumberland.gov.uk |
Linda Nicholls Strategic lead Tel:0191 2371239 Linda.nicholls01@northumberland.gov.uk |
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| Liliana Ghilardi Parent Support Officer Tel: 0787 2666 128 Liliana.ghilardi@northumberland.gov.uk |
Glenda Rush Administrator Tel:0191 2371239 Glenda.rush@northumberland.gov.uk |
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| Dorothy Lewis Volunteer Coordinator Tel: 0785 5534 849 Friday's 9am - 5pm Dorothy.Lewis@northumberland.gov.uk |
Adult Learning & Leisure
Tel: 0191 2371784
http://pscm.northumberland.gov.uk
Blyth Borough Council
Tel: 01670 542542
http://www.blythvalley.gov.uk
Blyth & Concordia Sports Centres
Tel: 01670 542222
http://www.bval.co.uk
Children and Young People’s Directory
http://northumberland.childrensservicedirectory.org.uk/
Connexions
Tel: 01670 798180
http://www.connexions-northumberland.org.uk
FACT (Families & Children Team)
Tel: 01670 354316.
Libraries:
Seaton Valley Community
Tel: 0191 2371660
Seaton Sluice Tel:
0191 2370210
Local Police
Tel:08456 043043 (non emergency)
Northumberland Family Information Service
Freephone: 0800 023 4440
www.childcarelink.gov.uk/northumberland
Seaton Valley Children’s Centre
Tel: 0191 2375184
Seaton Valley Youth Services
Tel; 0191 2371784
Hastings Initiative Tel: 0191 2370596
Holywell Fun Club
Tel: 0795 861 3213 or (01670) 531843
http://www.trinityyouth.org.uk
Seaton Delaval Playgroup
Tel: 07980 205590
Seaton Valley OnLine
http://www.seatonvalley.org.uk
Seaton Valley Community Associations:
New Hartley Community Centre Clive Raper – 0191 2372210
Seaton Delaval Community Centre
Joyce Hillman 0191 2372249
Seghill Community Centre
Elsie Harvey – 0191 2373168
Seaton Sluice Community Centre
Joyce Brown – 0191 2371090 or 0191 2371771
Schools in Seaton Valley Learning Partnership:
Seaton Sluice Middle
Tel; 0191 237 0629
Whytrig Middle
Tel; 0191 237 1402
Holywell Village First
Tel; 0191 237 0384
New Hartley First
Tel 0191 237 1218
Seghill First
Tel; 0191 237 0419
Seaton Sluice First
Tel; 0191 237 1839
Seaton Delaval First
Tel; 0191 237 1239
Atkinson House Special
Tel; 0191 298 0838