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Dear all,

Just a very quick but important update:

No Oasis Free School until at least 2015

Oasis Community Learning have announced that their planned secondary Free School will not now open until 2015, in spite of opening its admissions to local parents this year. We welcome this delay as it gives people in Waltham Forest more opportunity to learn about these schools and the people sponsoring them. Read more in our latest short blog post:http://ourcommunityourschools.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/no-oasis-free-school-until-at-least-2015.html

Read our recent blog post on how the Free Schools policy is unravelling nationally:
http://ourcommunityourschools.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/free-schools-wheels-are-coming-off.html
And read local MP John Cryer’s view of Free Schools here:
http://ourcommunityourschools.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/local-mp-says-free-schools-are-barking.html

All the best

Jonathan White
Scarlet Harris
Alison Emmett
Kiri Tunks
Mark Holding
Tom Davies and everyone else at Our Community, Our Schools


From Stella Creasy M.P:

Oasis Free School Opening date deferred: Update 

For many local residents the provision of high quality school places for all local children is a key priority. Therefore many are concerned about the impact of proposals for Free Schools for Walthamstow and how this will contribute to achieving this ambition.  Therefore I wanted to let readers know that one of the Free Schools proposed for Walthamstow, The Oasis Secondary School, has announced this week that it has agreed with the Department for Education to defer the opening of its pre-approved secondary Free School to September 2015. The new school, for students aged 11-16 years, with six forms of entry, will open with an initial intake of 180 Year 7 students. As soon as I receive further details on the status of any of these new schools or of events related to education in Walthamstow I will share these via my e-newsletter.