Case Study: The Forest CE Federation becomes a leading cloud-enabled primary school group with RM Education

How an educational federation in rural Northamptonshire became one of the most technologically advanced groups of Primary Schools in this country – underpinning their vision for how teaching may evolve in the UK

The Forest CE Federation, a group of four rural primary schools in Northamptonshire, wanted to modernize its aging and inconsistent IT environment. Staff and pupils were struggling with outdated servers, different logins and devices across sites, and no clear IT strategy, so the federation turned to RM Education for a more scalable, future-proof approach.

RM Education replaced the federation’s physical servers with cloud-based management, rolled out Microsoft Teams and RM Unify, upgraded devices, installed wireless networking and VoIP, and added support, training, and device trade-in services. The result was a seamless, all-in-one setup that improved remote learning, collaboration, accessibility, and budgeting, while giving the schools one point of contact and confidence that they are among the most technologically advanced primary schools in the country.

The Forest CE Federation

Eliza Hollis

Executive Headteacher