Last week the EFA decided to add a fifth site in south Oxfordshire to the list of potential homes for the Caversham primary which has sparked the creation of numerous campaign groups.

But, despite the raging debate of where the school should go, parents of pupils currently enrolled at the temporary site in Gosbrook Road fear that the children have been forgotten.

Kerry Parr, a member of the Parents of The Heights group, said: “The whole point of the EFA and the Government is they have to weigh up the needs of the society. But I don’t feel like they are in control of the process and its impact on the community. They seem to have forgotten about the needs of the children.

Though the lease on the site has been agreed until 2017 parents worry that as the new cohort joins next year the lack of space will affect the children’s experiences.

Mrs Parr added: “It is going to mean that one room is going to be used for everything. It is going to be needed for classrooms, assemblies and after school clubs. We just cannot see how they are going to be accommodated if they keep delaying.”

Starting last September the school opened up to its first 62 pupils in a temporary location at the former Caversham Nursery.

Zoltan Markella, a member of The Heights Primary School Trust said: “It is clear to us that the delivery of the school’s permanent site will be put back by another year to September 2017 as a result of these further avoidable delays at the hands of the EFA.

“The parents, staff and governors have made an exceptional use of the school’s temporary facilities but they deserve better than to have to live with the uncertainty created by the lack of leadership on this matter from the Department for Education.”

An EFA spokesman said: “We are working with Reading Borough Council to identify a site for The Heights Free School that the community can support. The council has agreed to lead a local consultation."