The Coulsdon & Woodcote Extended Schools Team website is currently under construction. Watch out for announcements via your extended schools notice boards and school newsletters. We look forward to bringing you news and information for the whole of our extended school community.
Our schools: Oasis Academy Coulsdon, Keston Primary, Coulsdon Church of England Primary, Byron Primary and Children's Centre, Mullberry Bush Nursery and Pre-School, Playplus After School Club, Woodcote High School and Sports College, Woodcote Primary, Smitham Primary, St. Aidan's Catholic Primary, Chipstead Valley Primary and Children's Centre, and Coulsdon Nursery.
A little flavour of what extended schools look like -
Childcare
- Breakfast Clubs and After School Clubs
- An after school "Safe Place to Be" for our High School children
- Youth Service information.
- Childcare Information Points in all of our primary schools
Parenting Support
- Help with supporting your children through transition periods such as transfer to high school, nursery to primary and starting nursery.
- Information on parenting support groups, workshops and training accessible within your area.
- Family Learning through CALAT and others.
A Varied Menu of Activity
- Information about after school clubs and holiday activities
- We are developing new provision from private providers to enhance the opportunities currently available in the schools.
- We are looking at commissioning new projects for our area to offer more positive activites for young people.
- The aim is for families to have a good variety of accessible provision as close as possible to their own school.
- We are currently developing our current provision of holiday activities .
- Increase access to study support for our local children.
Swift & Easy Referral to Specialist Support
- We are looking at developing training for Parenting Support Advisers to be accessible within each school.
- Working from our two Children's Centres at Byron and Chipstead Valley we are developing a range of health services such as clinics for midwives and babies, speech and language therapy, free drop ins, young parents groups, parenting support and family learning and much much more. Although the Children's Centres do focus on support for 0 - 5 yrs. older siblings needs are considered.
- We also work within a multi agency environment in order to support families that need it.
Community Access and Cohesion
- Information about how our schools are working towards becoming hubs for families within our community
- Links to our local business partnership and general community news and upcoming events
- Schools are working together to provide a community approach to projects so that all children have access.
- Our multi agency partnership work now provides positive and supportive links with other public services like health, family learning, libraries, youth service, Fire Service and Police.
Tel 07915242914 / email sharon.cwest@hotmail.co.uk