Newent Community School and Sixth Form Centre is not just another school; we are a thriving, successful, vibrant and energetic community demonstrating a common purpose – to ensure the very best for our students.
We are a caring and supportive 11-18 mixed comprehensive serving Newent, surrounding villages and, because of excellent transport links, Gloucester City, the Forest of Dean and Herefordshire. The School operates dedicated bus services for students living in the Gloucester City and Forest of Dean areas. We are a high achieving school at the very heart of our community and are committed to enabling all our young people to develop into happy, well prepared and confident adults, secure in the knowledge of the role they can play in their own development. We are proud of the extensive range of opportunities to stimulate and enhance the growth of our students into mature and responsible adults with a sense of purpose.
Newent Community School and Sixth Form Centre continues to be a good school as confirmed by Ofsted following their visit in March 2018. They observed that we offer high quality education with students making strong progress. In addition it was rightly observed that our students feel safe, and are safe, in school. This is achieved by the school’s culture of care and vigilance.
Our success is based on an ethos designed to address individual needs, foster self-esteem and self-belief and meet society’s changing expectations.
We are constantly on the lookout for outstanding opportunities to enhance our curriculum and are tenacious in developing the learning experience for our students. Our trailblazing work for NHS England has some amazing opportunities for our students such as SmartGym Gloucestershire that seek to explore the value of combining physical and cognitive exercises to help build young people’s mental resilience.
In September 2020 the National Cyber Security Centre (part of GCHQ) made us a Gold Standard school for Cyber Security. This prestigious award is built on the success of our ground-breaking work as a CyberHub School and demonstrates our ongoing commitment to Cyber Security Education. The safety and cyber safety of our students in our digitally connected world is paramount and the opportunities available for young people in this rapidly expanding sector are endless.
It is our desire that Newent Community School and Sixth Form Centre remains at the cutting edge of both innovative and collaborative practice but ensure we remain a school at the very heart of our local community, seeking to be the school of choice of all who live here.