“Postal delays have stopped us seeing anything, that’s what we think has happened. “When it came through on Friday, we immediately sent it off. “It was dated February 4, it’s the first we’ve heard of it. “We don’t understand what’s happened’ The trust runs Briscoe Primary School, Basildon, Hilltop Infant School, Wickford, Hilltop Junior School, Wickford, Stambridge Primary School, Rochford and Waterman Primary School, Rochford, as well as Wickford Church of England school. A spokesman from the Hearts Academy Trust, added: “Hearts was made aware of this issue on Friday, and it is the result of a clerical error.