Parents of pupils requiring a Year 7 place at the new Wisbech Academy this September can apply now. They have until June 12 to do so. The new school will open initially in temporary accommodation on the site of Thomas Clarkson Academy in the town.
It will be run by the Brooke Weston Trust, which also runs the Thomas Clarkson Academy.
Students spared 40 mile round trip commute after agreement reached to fund Wisbech Free school
A funding agreement to enable it to open in September was signed just before half term by the Department for Education (DfE) who will deliver the new school. The new permanent accommodation for the school will be progressed over the course of the next year.
The process to apply for a place at the Wisbech Academy opened this week and will close on Wednesday 12 June.
Offers for the school will be sent to families on Monday 17 June. To find out more information about the Wisbech Academy and to complete an application form, parents should visit www.wisbechfreeschool.co.uk
A county council spokesperson said: “We hope this means there will be sufficient secondary school places in Wisbech this September and pupils will not have to travel to Whittlesey or Littleport instead.”
A funding agreement to enable it to open in September was signed last month by the Department for Education (DfE) who will deliver the new school. The new permanent accommodation for the school will be progressed over the course of the next year.
Cambridgeshire County Council advised parents in March that if the decision was made to open the school this September, any child would be able to make an application to the school under a separate admissions round run by Brooke Weston Trust.
Following the signing of the funding agreement, the council and Brooke Weston has been contacting families whose children have currently been allocated a school place for September outside Wisbech to offer them an alternative place at the new Free School.
Cllr Bryony Goodliffe, chair of Cambridgeshire County Council’s Children and Young People’s Committee said: “It is essential that this new school opens in September, and thanks to the persistence and hard work of council officers – in partnership with the Brooke Weston Trust and the DfE – it has become a reality.
!We owe it to our children and young people to give them a school place as near as possible to where they live and we will now be able to do that in Wisbech.”
A community event will be held at the Thomas Clarkson Academy, when parents will be updated on developments and advised how they can apply for a place at the new school.
