UPDATE!

Hi all, we just wanted to give you an update in regards to what we are currently working on. After a positive interview with officials from the Department for Education in May, The Heyfordian School Trust is now eagerly awaiting the final decision in regards to the Heyford Park Free School. We have been told we will hear around the beginning of July and will of course send out an update as soon as we hear. Fingers crossed but everything so far is moving in the right direction! Of course the process is incredibly competitive, but we feel our answers to their questions were robust and they were very fair to us. 

In the  meantime, we wanted to inform you of a few interesting projects we are currently working on at the moment.

DESIGN OF THE LOGO, CREST AND MOTTO FOR THE SCHOOL- now we are this far in the application process, the Heyford Park Free School is truly beginning to feel like a real school. We feel it is time to think more about how the school should look, and which elements of our distinctive ethos are the most important and should therefore be visually represented. Ideas currently flying around include designs that focus on our history (planes, water tower, hardened aircraft shelter etc.) and designs that try a evoke the community feeling we hope this school will have (an adult holding hands with a child, a roof sheltering lots of people etc.). We really want parents to be involved in the design process. So, if anyone has any ideas they feel strongly about, please either post them on the this Blog or call or email Sarah on 01869 238200/ s.mccready@dorchestergrp.com. These will then be included in our design consultation. Once a variety of logos has been designed to this specification, we will put the four most popular to a parental panel made up of ten registered parents from across the area in order to decide the final design. If you are interested in being a member on this panel, please can you get in contact with Sarah.

PARENTS WORKSHOP- As mentioned in a previous update, our educationalists will be holding a workshop in June to help parents understand how the curriculum for the Heyford Park Free School has developed and to alleviate any concerns that our first cohort will be “guinea pigs”. We are still waiting to finalise a date, but it is likely this will be the 27^th June (but we will send out another update as soon as this has been confirmed). If your children are eligible for 2013 intake at either Reception or Year 7 and you are interested in attending, please email Sarah at s.mccready@dorchestergrp.com to reserve a place. We can only offer this to a maximum of 15 parents at this stage, so please reserve your space as quickly as possible to avoid disappointment.

Thank you once again for your time and I hope you will support us in the above measures.