The Every Child Matters Premium Project report, issued last week by the National College for School Leadership, highlights the ways innovative schools have approached extended services.
Among the schools mentioned is Seven Mill Primary School, which boosted its extended services budget by wooing businesses in London's Canary Wharf.
Mike Thurley, head teacher at Seven Mills Primary School in Tower Hamlets, east London, raised cash and resources worth £140,000 from businesses including Canary Wharf plc, Lloyds TSB, Credit Suisse, Lehman Brothers and KPMG.
Pupils at the school, which is in England's second most deprived local authority, and next to Canary Wharf, have benefited from homework clubs, lunchtime French classes, football and cricket coaching and a new school minibus. Canary Wharf plc alone pays for more than half of the primary's out-of-school learning programme.
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