Objectives When Carlton Hill Primary School began developing extendedservices back in 2003, head teacher Phil Smith had a clear idea of howhe wanted to proceed. His starting point was to get parents, localresidents and community groups fully on board.
"The whole of our vision with regard to extended services was builtaround the fact that we believed that the children in our communitywould not succeed unless the community succeeded," he says. "We wereadamant that we needed to engage with our community and the services andresidents within it."
The issues It was an ambitious plan for a school serving one of the mostdisadvantaged parts of Brighton. Carlton Hill has around 230 pupils,many from single-parent or low-earning families. Nearly 40 per cent ofpupils are of minority ethnic heritage and one in five have a languageother than English as their mother tongue.
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