As part of Reading Borough Council’s Let’s Talk Education consultation, it was identified that an additional primary school was required in North Reading.  The Council’s preferred method of doing this was for a group to submit a bid to the Department for Education to set up a new primary under the Free School process.

When the Heights Academy Trust was set up, the council identified that the quickest route to opening a new school was for a proposer group to submit a bid to open a new Free School.  The Heights therefore has the full backing from Reading Borough Council and is their preferred long term option for solving the capacity issues in North Reading.

Yes, The Heights Academy Trust are working with Reading Borough Council to develop the school.  The Heights is being set up in response to the council’s request that a group submitted a bid to open a new school under the Department for Education’s free school process.  Reading Borough Council Officers and Councillors have given their full support to the school. The Council will run the admissions process on the Trust’s behalf.

Due to the obvious lack of school places for primary aged children in the Caversham area, the other primary schools have been supportive of our plans and welcome another school in the area to avoid the need for bulge classes.

Caversham and Emmer Green have an excellent offering of Primary Schools. The Heights has not been set up to provide an alternative choice for parents. It has been set up to solve the shortage of school places in North Reading and also to provide a school for the Caversham Heights area, reducing the distance that children currently have to travel to get to school.