Extended Services

"It is our ambition to go further and to create a whole 21^st century school system, where all schools can provide this experience for all children, young people and parents.  This means every school, and not just some, working in strong partnerships with parents, with other children’s services, and with other schools and providers". 

(Ed Balls, 21^st Century Schools: A World Class Education for Every Child, 2008)

In Craft-ED’s recognition of the importance of 21^st Century Schools we have designed 21^st Century Schools Modules and 21^st Century Family Learning Modules to assist in delivering creative and personalised activities for use in out of school hours learning environments.  Our Modules are a unique, creative tool to assist educators in delivering interactive sessions around social, moral, cultural, environmental issues and values.  The activities are written for an adult to deliver them who is not necessarily a qualified teacher, essentially allowing for other key members of the community to support education.

21ST CENTURY SCHOOLS MODULES

Our 21^st Century Schools Modules provide educators with activities spread over four 1-hour sessions, designed for small groups of children.  Working in small groups enables children to feel confident and able to make a valuable contribution. In addtion, the advantage of learning within an extended learning environment aids to break the barriers that exist outside of the classroom. The activities are designed to promote collaborative learning where children are encouraged to develop their interactive skills. Children are encouraged to feel valued and able to contribute to group discussion, sometimes around sensitive subjects.

Ofsted looks for certain criteria when evaluating schools' performance, and the specific benefits of our 21st Century Modules can be cited on a School's Improvement Plan Self Evaluation Form to satisfy many of these goals.  Government funding channels availabe to support these programmes also include Study Support and the Disadvantaged Subsidy Funding. 

Our Modules naturally link to the National Curriculum and are supplied with these links, together with the equipment and resources required to deliver the activities.  In addition, our Activity Guides provide links to relevant Government and global initiatives to help educators easily incorporate these into the activities without additional planning:

•   Every Child Matters
•   Every Parent Matters
•   Inclusion
•   Enterprise
•   The United Nations Millennium Development Goals

Objectives; outcomes and additional links; resources required; step-by-step guide and National Curriculum-linked discussion points are all included in our Activity Guides.

21ST CENTURY FAMILY LEARNING MODULES

Our 21^st Century Family Learning Modules, also spread activities over four 1-hour sessions, are designed for parent/adult and child sessions.  They too are focused on social, moral, cultural, environmental issues and values, with two Modules specifically designed around literacy and mathematics (Word Play and Magic Maths).  In addition to supplying the natural links to the National Curriculum for the child, we include links to the Adult Literacy and Numeracy Core Curriculum.  These 21^st Century Family Learning Modules facilitate parents to help children learn and at the same time aids parents to gain basic skills themselves.  They help to bridge the gap in learning between the child and the parent and in doing so actively promote inter-generational education.