Borough Council to Debate School Changes - Tonight

Oadby and Wigston Borough Council are debating a motion on the changes to Oadby Schools tonight. Although the council does not have any powers for education, it will have to conisder planning applications for any changes to schools that have become academies.

The final text of the motion has not been confirmed but it is likely to be along the lines of offering the council's services to help achieve a consensus over a coordinated schools' admission policy in Oadby.

Members of the public are allowed to observe full council meetings so please attend if you are interested. The meeting starts at 7pm Thursday 19th February at the Council Offices, Station Road, Wigston. More details on the council's web site.

What do the Children Think? - Online Youth Survey

If you have children in years 5 to 9, please ask them to complete this survey to register their views on the changes to Oadby schools.

The survey has been set up by Daria Eckert, one of the members of the United Kingdom Youth Parliment for Leicestershire. Daria is also a member of the Oadby and Wigston Youth Council and the Leicestershire County Youth Council.

Daria will feed back the results of the the survey to the schools, the borough and county councils and our local MPs.

Next SOS Oadby Meeting

The next meeting of the Save Our Schools Oadby campaign will happen in the Conference Room at Costa Coffee on The Parade Oadby at 3pm Sunday 15th February. Our village leaflet may ready for volunteer deliverers to take away. We will also be discussing the next steps for the campaign. We hope to see you there.

Can You Help? Petition at Oadby Town FC TONIGHT

We have got permission for petition signing tonight at Oadby Town FC. It is the Under 18 semi final against Anstey. If you can help please use the form to send us your contact details and aim to be there for 6.45pm (30 minutes before kick-off).for around half an hou.

SIGN: Petition against the changes

We have launched a petition against the current proposals for changes to the Oadby schools. You can either:

Sign online 

or

Download a paper copy

Petitions have been very effective in other school campaigns, most recently against phasing out middle schools in Uttoxeter.

Please print off paper copies and get friends, other parents at the school gate and work colleagues to sign. If you are going to the consultation meetings, try to get signatures too. We recommend that if you are getting signatures or handing out flyers, you should stay on public land outside the school entrance.

Posters too: New Download Page

We have a new download page with sample posters, car posters, A5 flyers and petition forms all in PDF files for you to print out at home.

Sunday's Meeting

Some of the topics for discussion on Sunday will be: use of petitions; the media; campaign posters; other ways to further the campaign.

Our leaflet fund has almost reached its target. Some supporters have asked if they can contribute in cash rather than online. If you'd like to help fund the leaflet in this way, we will be accepting donations at the meeting. If you can't make the meeting but would like to donate cash please email sosoadby@gmail.com . The Crowdfunder page continues to accept funds via card.

A reminder that the meeting is in the Conference Room at Costa Coffee on The Parade Oadby at 3pm Sunday 1st February.  If you can't see us, please ask the Costa staff.

Leaflet Deliverers - Can You Help?

Our Oadby-wide leaflet is now ready for delivery - thank you to everyone who has volunteered to do a round.

We still have some rounds left. If you can spare an hour or so to deliver the leaflets, please contact us . A separate leaflet for the villages is being put together, so if you are from the villages and would like to help deliver that please let us know too.

Help fund our Leaflet

Our leaflet donation fund on Crowdfunder is over a quarter of the way to our target of £200. This will allow us to print a leaflet to deliver to every house in Oadby - over 8000 in total.Thank you to everyone who has pledged towards the fund.

Please contribute if you can. Remember, we are a volunteer organisation only able to fund leaflets by donations. These are a vital way to alert parents and residents in Oadby as to what the school changes mean..