We are now into the second year of the Extended Services Subsidy Pathfinder, which will see the Joseph Swan Cluster join the Thomas Hepburn and Hookergate Clusters to become the third cluster in Gateshead to receive Subsidy Funding at a total of £120,000 across the 9 schools in the cluster. This funding has come to be known as 'Willy Wonka's magic ticket', as it provides out-of-school activities for children and young people in the cluster who could not afford to attend otherwise.

Children, young people and their families from the cluster will be invited to a Market Place Event at Joseph Swan School, which will introduce them to an array of activity providers, for example Stepney Bank Stables, Newcastle United Community Football Foundation and The Soundroom Music Project to name a few. Feedback from those attending the event will be used to inform decisions made by the schools as to what activities to commission with this funding.
Cluster Market Place
The Joseph Swan Cluster has now become the third cluster in Gateshead to receive extra funding which will allow all schools to provide more activities before and after school plus during school holidays.

Pupils and Families from across the cluster were invited to a Market Place Event at Joseph Swan School on the 13th May.
A number of providers attended the event all with the aim of showing the attendees why their activity should be commissioned as part of Extended Services Activities.Providers included, Professor Pelicano, Cycle 4 Adventure, Radiowaves and Film Club to name but a few.

Feedback from the event was extremely positive, pupils and families all enjoyed the various activities on offer and came away with some excellent ideas for future projects.

TELL US WHAT YOU WANT!!!!!!
REMEMBER we want to put on activities, trips or visits that you want to attend, so if you are a pupil at one of the schools in the Joseph Swan Cluster why not TELL US WHAT YOU WANT?

All you have to do to feedback what you want is to go to the homepage and post your comments by leaving your leave your age, school that you attend and area that you live in and of course WHAT YOU THINK!!!!
For ideas on activities that could be provided, check the Subsidy Pathfinder article listed in the Recent News section on the Homepage.