Established over thirty years ago, Bristol Hospital Education Service is an educational provision designed to support young people who are unable to access mainstream education because of medical needs.

From one-to-one and group sessions for children who are in hospital; to class based lessons or home tuition.

Bristol Royal Hospital for Children and The Riverside

In the two hospital settings we offer 1:1 and group sessions for students aimed at minimising the disruption to education caused by admission to hospital. Education sessions are planned around any health procedures that students are receiving and will vary in duration and time of day depending on the health care needs and ward plans.

BHES staff will liaise with students on roll school with regards to schemes of work and curriculum that the student is currently following and provision will be matched as closely as possible to the one they would be following in school.

Falkland Road

At and from our Falkland Road base we offer a weekly timetabled curriculum (classes) and also where absolutely necessary due to health needs 1:1 tuition either at Falkland Road, in student’s home or in other community settings.

Classes provision is for KS3 and KS4 students we offer a broad and balanced curriculum whose aim is to equip students with the knowledge, skills and qualifications they need to make successful returns to mainstream education.

Ethos and values

Our aim and purpose is to reduce the impact that chronic illness or being a young parent has on students life chances.

We provide education to students when their illness or the demands of being a young parent stops them from attending their on roll school.

We work in partnership with health, education and social care colleagues to deliver co-ordinated intervention plans.

Our goal for all of our students is that they return to their on roll school as soon as possible.

We believe that students make the best progress when they are fully aware of the purpose of the work that we do with them.

Ensuring students understand the journey that they will make through our service and what their next steps are is key to our work.

We make sure that this happens through involving students and parents in reviews and the use of interactive feedback from staff.

The values we hold to support our ethos

Openness, honesty, equity, self help, social responsibility and caring for others.

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