Study Support and Out of School Hours Learning
 Definition
Menu of Activities
Minimum Standards for Providers
Good Practice Case Studies
Further Information/Contact
Useful Links and Resources
Definition
'Study Support [out of school hours learning] is learning activity outside normal lessons which young people take part in voluntarily. Study Support is, accordingly, an inclusive term, embracing many activities - with many names and guises. Its purpose is to improve young people’s motivation, build their self-esteem and help them become more effective learners. Above all it aims to raise achievement’.
‘Study Support: a national framework for extending learning opportunities (DfES 2006)’
‘ A varied menu of study support activities’
Range currently offered:
- Arts and crafts
- Breakfast clubs
- Community and voluntary service
- Dance and drama
- Extended learning of curriculum subjects and revision
- Hobbies
- Homework clubs
- ICT
- Learning another language
- Maths and science clubs
- Mentoring
- Music tuition
- Outdoor and environment
- Special interest clubs
- Sport and physical activity
- Summer schools
- Visits to museums and galleries
- Volunteering
Minimum standards for providers
Minimum Standards for providers of Study Support and Out of School Hours Learning activities is a guide for Local Authorities aimed at organisations wishing to deliver activities for children and young people outside normal school hours.
 This explanatory leaflet and provider checklist has been developed within the Eastern Region, with the support of QiSS and on behalf of the DCSF. It conforms to commissioning guidelines for Hertfordshire and is offered as a tool to help you encourage all existing, as well as potential, providers of SSOSHL activities meet the minimum standards expected of them.
Hard copies of the leaflet are available from your ESCO, District Partnership team or Room 147 at County Hall.
The provider checklist is available in word document format and designed to be used as an aide memoire when engaging providers. The checklist can be downloaded to your own computer for use as and when you need it. You are encouraged to continue with any existing system you are using to record and monitor providers. If you have no existing system then you might like to adopt this checklist as the basis of any system you develop.
 Eastern Region Guide for Local Authorities (pdf/2.5MB)
- revised April 2010
 Provider Activity Checklist - Part A (Word/2MB) - revised Feb 2010
Provider Activity Checklist - Part B (Word/251KB) - revised Feb 2010
Good Practice Case Studies
Example case studies where SSOHL has already been implemented in a wide range of settings and initiatives can be found on the Hertfordshire Grid for Learning web site:
 Study Support Good Practice Case Studies
Further Information
Sandra Wood
ICS Strategy Manager, SSOSHL
Tel: 01992 556883
Email: sandra.wood@hertscc.gov.uk
Useful links and resources
 Hertfordshire Study Support Strategy (on the Herts Direct website)
Study Support and Out of Hours Learning (on the Hertfordshire Grid for Learning website)
Study Support Framework (2.62MB)
Study Support's Contribution to Key Policy (23KB)
CSF News Sept 07 "Another First for Hertfordshire" (264KB)
'Benefits of Study Support' mind map (112KB)
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