Haberdashers Consultation Meeting 10th July 7pm

[parentsteeringgroup]

The parent steering group for the local campaign for a new secondary school for East Dulwich would like to thank all its supporters, followers and friends and invite them to come along to

Haberdashers' Aske's Consultation Meeting for parents and carers

7pm on July 10th at Goose Green Primary School, Tintagel Crescent SE22 8HG

Please reserve your place using the form at this link: www.haaf.org.uk/ED-IM or using this email address: [email protected]

At the meeting will be representatives and senior staff from Haberdashers' Askes, Southwark Council's Cabinet and local Ward Councillors. This is another opportunity for parents and carers to have a say about the local need for a secondary school and to let Haberdashers' Aske's know your views on admission policies and other issues that can help shape the proposed new school. The consultation meeting will be led by Haberdashers' Aske's Federation and provide more information about the exciting proposals for a new school for East Dulwich.

Afterwards from 8pm all are welcome to stay and join the speakers and the steering group for tea and coffee and a chat with other parents to ask additional questions and find out even more about the campaign for the proposed site of a secondary school on the Dulwich Hospital site.

We are pleased to offer a cr?che service (reception age upwards) provided by the Goose Green After School Club so no one need miss out on this chance to come along, so please do register if you need places in the cr?che www.haaf.org.uk/ED-IM

Once again thank you for all the support throughout the campaign so far.

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[mrs.lotte]

Leaflets advertising the meeting and giving some more details of the proposals are going into letter boxes, schools and noticeboards from today

[kristymac1]

Hi, are you leafleting the 'black hole' areas? If hb are going to take on board the views of parents with regard to admissions you really need to be leafleting houses in those areas around Peckham Rye too (speaking with complete self-interest)

Thanks

Kristy

[parentsteeringgroup]

We certainly are Kristy. Please pm me if you haven't had a leaflet through the door by Sunday evening.

[clux]

Will you be going as far as Nunhead?

[parentsteeringgroup]

Yes!

[Shuggy]

I think this might be the leaflet:

http://www.haaf.org.uk/Mainfolder/East-Dulwich-School/Meeting-leaflet.pdf

[kristymac1]

Got my leaflet delivered yesterday, we're on Dovedale Road. Thanks, will definitely be attending

[parentsteeringgroup]

Pleased to hear that kristy and look forward to meeting you on the 10th.

[bonaome]

parentsteeringgroup Wrote:

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> Pleased to hear that kristy and look forward to

> meeting you on the 10th.

So do you just need to say here that you're coming? I'm coming!

[samstopit]

Edited as posted on wrong thread.

[parentsteeringgroup]

Hi bonaome, glad to hear you will be coming along. Please could you register on the link given above or send an email to [email protected] to say you're coming. Let us know if you need a place in the cr?che. Thanks.hopefully kristy and others have done this too. Helps us know how many to cater for.

[bawdy-nan]

Hello

I am unable to make the meeting but I would very much like to know what size the school is anticipated to be (ie what the year on year intake would be) and if the school would be run in the manner of the other schools in the federation. If someone could ask at the meeting and report back I'd be very grateful.

Many thanks

[parentsteeringgroup]

No problem bawdynan. If anyone else can't make it feel free to post your question here or as a PM.

[bonaome]

parentsteeringgroup Wrote:

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> Hi bonaome, glad to hear you will be coming along.

> Please could you register on the link given above

> or send an email to [email protected] to say

> you're coming. Let us know if you need a place in

> the cr?che. Thanks.hopefully kristy and others

> have done this too. Helps us know how many to

> cater for.

Yeah - did that last weeks sent an email saying just me, no cr?che, daughter currently at Heber yr 3. Didn't get a confirmation back. Will resend.

[mrs.lotte]

Bonaire, my email confirmation went to my junk mail

[parentsteeringgroup]

As of this afternoon 150 people have registered to attend Thursday's meeting. The cr?che is also nearly full.

If you haven't registered but would like to come, please do register to avoid missing out.

Looking forward to meeting you all and hearing your views.

[parentsteeringgroup]

Hi all

Great news - we have 200 people registered to attend Thursday's meeting. This means the hall is at full capacity.

Habs will consider a second meeting later in the year if people who can't make this one would appreciate that. Please email [email protected] if you would be interested and we will see what we can do.

Thanks for this overwhelming support and we will see you on Thursday.

[mrs.lotte]

Would it be a good idea if people post on here if they can't make it and the steering group can also tweet/Facebook to tell people who may want to turn up and take a chance at getting in?

[parentsteeringgroup]

We will aim to post a bullet point summary of what was discussed at the meeting, for those who can't be there.

Remember that if you have registered your support on the Haberdashers web site you will get email updates too.

[parentsteeringgroup]

The Guardian have today run a piece on our campaign and its many complexities!

Scroll down ...

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/jun/24/was-academy-chain-warned-multi-inspection

[mrs.lotte]

Ok I've realised how tragic my life is when I found myself looking forward to this. Maybe it's the lure of the biscuits!

[Katy Tonbridge]

Well, I made it through about one hour of this meeting and gave up. It was an hour dominated by two governor-executive types committing murder by Powerpoint as they read and re-read (just in case we missed it the first time) their slides listing their values and aspirations, while a patient audience of 200 sagged in a stuffy room.

Dear Steering Committee, if there are any more of these meetings, please remind the speakers that most of us parents don't have two hours to kill, we have questions, and don't need a painstaking regurgitation of stuff that is either on the Haberdashers website or was in the leaflet that most of us read before the event started. 15 minutes of them summarising what they are about followed by structured questions would have been a far better way to organise this event.

I hope somebody stayed to the end and can give a summary of the key points to emerge from this evening.

[MarkE]

Guess you can't please all of the people all of the time. I, for one, learned plenty from the presentation that I didn't already know and found useful.

Would agree, however, that more time could have been given over to a wider Q&A session but there's always the risk then that similar questions get regurgitated.

Useful evening.

[Katy Tonbridge]

OK, can somebody who stayed for the second hour answer the following:

- What seems to be their preference for the criteria for entry, will it be distance, 'ability'-bands, affiliation with local primaries, or some combination of these?

- It will be a mixed school but will there be single-sex classes up to Year 9 as I believe they have in one of their other schools.

- Does it sound like there be ways for children living miles away to go this school (via music 'scholarships' or whatever?)

- Apart from music, will they want to be known for any other specialisms?

- How big do they anticipate the outdoor playground/sports area will be (they presumably have a rough idea of the building footprint)? Do they expect all sport to be done on-site, or do they plan to share facilities elsewhere as Harris Boys Academy does.

- Do they have anything to say about the rival Charter bid? Why go with Haberdashers instead of Charter?