Beyond the classroom

Building partnerships beyond the school is key to both supporting learning in the classroom and enhancing pupil well-being. This includes:

• guidance and universal support for every pupil - the school is in a good position to get to know each and every pupil, to celebrate successes and to identify and help overcome challenges and problems, sometimes involving other agencies. Young people are given the best advice for making decisions about their future, the school often working with them as a broker, an advocate, a solution-fixer;
  
  
• effective pastoral care - for all pupils according to their current needs, accepting that some pupils will need more support - and different kinds of support - than others at certain times;
  
  
• tackling additional needs with targeted or specialist support if necessary - multi-agency support is readily available where necessary for children with additional needs through collaboration with a range of professionals;
  
  
• lunchtime and after-school catch-up help and other extended learning provision - for example, through study support and extended school activities and services;
  
  
• home-school partnerships - to help parents/carers to  become  more engaged with their children's learning, through, for example, family literacy and numeracy programmes and opening up the school's facilities to the community;
  
  
• community partnerships - where schools can benefit from the support of the wider community to support children's and young people's learning; partnerships to broaden horizons and develop learning opportunities;
  
  
• multi-agency support for the whole child - using the opportunities of the Green Paper 'Every Child Matters' to integrate children's services.
  

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