Learning Plus

Learning Plus is about developing and supporting all children and young people to reach their full potential throughout the school day and beyond, building on the work achieved by schools through the Extended Services and Healthy Schools programmes.

We want to help you ensure that every child and young person has the opportunity to:

  • Have a broad range of learning experiences outside of the school day
  • Reach his/her potential, both academically and otherwise
  • Celebrate their achievements 
  • Support their learning back in the classroom


We will assist your school and your partners to identify and deliver local priorities, in terms of health, well-being and community development, that will close the attainment gap, and improve life chances for your students and their families.

“Just 14% of variation in individuals’ performance is accounted for by school quality.  Most variation is explained by other factors, underlining the need to look at a range of children’s experiences, inside and outside of school, when seeking to raise achievement” - Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2007.

Contact us today to find out about how our professionally delivered, high quality and value for money services can help your school’s children and young people to achieve more.

Find out more about extended learning.

Benefits of using our service

Learning Plus works with a school, or groups of schools, to identify their needs. We will also work with a range of partners from the public, private and voluntary sector to plan, deliver and commission locally identified services, to meet the needs of the communities they serve.

These could include:

  • bespoke training
  • school improvement and engagement planning
  • parental engagement
  • reading for well being
  • school managed breakfast, holiday and after-school clubs
  • how to get the best from your ‘Pupil Premium’
  • identification and mapping of vulnerable groups
  • measuring impact
  • Kent Children’s University
  • Learning Destinations
  • working with the voluntary community and private sectors.

Contact us

Learning Plus

Tel: (01622) 694997

Email: learning.plus@kent.gov.uk