Published:
5:12 PM February 5, 2021
The ‘Wisbech Free School’ has received government funding after gaining approval from the Department for Education. Thomas Clarkson Academy is pictured.
- Credit: PAUL TIBBS PHOTOGRAPHY
The Department for Education has granted Government funding to build a new “once in a generation” secondary school in Wisbech.
The Brooke Weston Trust – which already operates Thomas Clarkson Academy and Peckover Primary School – was granted the funds to open ‘Wisbech Free School’.
They applied under wave 14 of the department’s Free School Application Process in 2019 and after several delays the announcement was made today (February 5).
Unity Howard, director of the New Schools Network, told Schools Week: “The groups planning these new free schools should be proud today.