1) Varied menu of activities including study support and childcare

2) Parent support

3) Community access to school facilities, including access to adult learning

4) Swift and easy access to targeted and specialist services

Extended Services

All schools in Sandwell are working towards becoming an extended service. This means the schools will offer the following services for young people, their families and the wider community:

Select here to go to leave the uplands site and visit the venture extended schools site

In South Smethwick there are 6 schools along with a SureStart and Library that are working together as a cluster to achieve being an extended service. They are:

Abbey Infants

Abbey Juniors

Annie Lennards Infants

Bearwood Primary

St Gregory’s Catholic Primary

Uplands Manor Primary

Uplands SureStart

Thimblemill Library

As a cluster we have called ourselves VENTURE and have specific workers in the schools and centres to ensure we provide the right service for the people in the community.

Some events that we have supported are:

Spring Watch

Drug awareness events

First aid talks- Heart start

Speakers from different faiths

Assemblies on different topics

‘Keeping up with the kid’ numeracy

School nurse talks on different topics

And many more…

To keep everyone up to date we publish a Termly Newsletter to celebrate success, promote up and coming events and keep people up to date.

To find out more about Venture or Extended services you can speak to the Head teacher or your Community Champion in your school or centre

Michelle George-Community Champion