Hatfield & Rural
Extended Schools' Consortium

Welcome to the website about the Extended Schools range of services and activities in the Hatfield area.

What is an extended school?

Extended schools provide access to a range of services and activities, often beyond the school day, to help meet the needs of children, families and the wider community.

Schools are not expected to deliver these services and activities on their own but to work with other schools and with external partners and providers – for example, children's centres, the health service, the local college, private and voluntary organisations.

Schools have been working together in groups (called Consortiums) and they do not have to deliver all of the services and activities on each school site.

Many schools are already providing some of these opportunities and have been doing so for some time.  But now all schools are expected to offer the full core offer of services by September 2010. All schools in the Hatfield & Rural Extended Schools Consortium will be full by the end of the Autumn Term 2010.

Download a brochure for more information

Extended Schools Brochure (140KB)

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