Edward Jenner School is a small co-educational independent school providing full and part-time education. Most of the part-time pupils are also educated at home. For these pupils the school makes individual arrangements with parents and carers with regard to the subjects pupils will study and the number of sessions they will attend each week. The school is located in the centre of Gloucester in appropriately converted former office buildings. It makes use of the local leisure centre and an indoor climbing centre to extend the pupils’ experience of physical education. The proprietor is one of the school’s teachers. The school is registered for up to 25 pupils aged between seven and 16 years of age. The 11 pupils currently on roll are between the ages of eight and 15. Eight of them attend part time. Three pupils have statements of special educational need. One of these specifies the school as the appropriate education provider. The others were issued before the pupils joined the school. None of the pupils are in the care of their local authority. The school’s aim is to help the pupils to become ‘confident, reflective, principled and openminded learners in an atmosphere of caring cooperation’. The school was opened in September 2013 and took its first full-time pupils in April 2014. This is its first inspection.