Quality

Gloucestershire Education Forum was formed in April 2022 to bring key systems leaders in the local education system together to consider issues important to and impacting the local education system and how we can work together and share best practice to respond and improve outcomes for children. It has secured funding to improve educational outcomes for disadvantaged children and shown the difference that can be made:

• 16 schools in South Cotswolds (primary and secondary) in a Year of Reading project;
• 15 Gloucester City secondary schools Attendance project;
• 42 Gloucester Schools Partnership focused on word power project;
• 22 Diocese of Gloucester Academy Trust schools focused on social prescribing approaches to improving attendance;
• Stroud schools project to identify the features of their schools that is supporting improved attainment trends for disadvantaged children and young people;
• Study visits and seminars on supporting SEND in the mainstream classroom.

Many of the photos used on these webpages were taken at the Holiday Activities and Food programme celebration festival in the summer of 2024. This programme, funded by the Department for Education, with £1.9 million additional funding from Gloucestershire County Council, has awarded grants to almost 100 local voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise agencies and District Councils to provide free activities and nutritious food for children and young people during the holidays, with a focus on those facing greater disadvantage. The programme has been a huge success delivering over 150,000 activity sessions, with over 27,000 unique children and young people attending from across Gloucestershire since it was first piloted in 2021.

Building on the national Healthy Schools initiative launched over two decades ago, we developed Gloucestershire Healthy Living and Learning, which continues to thrive and provide support to all schools in the county.

The team of Lead Teachers (qualified teachers working in Gloucestershire who are employed as Lead Teachers one day per week) support a group of schools to achieve their Healthy Schools Award, as well as developing teaching resources, delivering training and advising on evidence based interventions schools can use to support pupil’s health and wellbeing and improve the school environment.