Welcome to Cheltenham Education Partnership

CEP was born in 2018, founded by Dr David Evans formerly of Dean Close School and Dr Adam Dunning of Cheltenham College. David and Adam saw huge potential in Cheltenham as the basis for a fair and equitable schools partnership which would see State and Independant sector schools working together to enrich education for all of the secondary school pupils of Cheltenham. After touring the country for inspiration, a model for partnership was decided on.

Aims of CEP  

• Ensure the best interests of young people are at the heart of education initiatives in Cheltenham.  
• Provide outstanding educational opportunities for young people in Cheltenham.  
• Reach out to all young people with potential regardless of social, economic or educational background.  
• Provide stimulating professional development for teachers and update areas of knowledge, understanding, skills and attitudes.  
• Promote mutual respect amongst education professionals and students across the state and independent sectors.  
• Foster social cohesion in Cheltenham.  
• Encourage links between schools, colleges, universities and other sectors such as the Cheltenham Festivals, Cheltenham Christian Arts Festival, The Cheltenham Trust and GCHQ for the education and benefit of all members of the community of Cheltenham. 

Objectives of CEP 

• The Partnership is an enabler organisation: that is, it will seek to encourage and support new initiatives within the agreed aims. It will develop and maintain:  
• An annual programme of events for students from partner schools.  
• A culture of expectation in partner organisations of co-operation: that, for the benefit of young people in Cheltenham, local educational initiatives should be shared, that action should be collaborative, and that decision-making in individual schools will foreground the Partnership’s aims.  
• Opportunities for professional development for education professionals in partner schools, within the scope of partnership activities.  
• Openness to find new partners outside the educational sectors.  
• Funding from appropriate sources.  

How CEP works

The CEP Steering group consists of the Heads of all our partner schools plus senior management at all our affiliated partner organisations. The group meets once a term to review recent activities and make new plans for the future 

Each school has two dedicated CEP Champions, these Champions are the heart of the partnership and make all our programmes happen. Together they form the Operations Group which provides vital feedback on activities and enables CEP to be successful. We also engage careers leads at all schools for activities related to employment and futures.