Home About News The Build Register Interest Join our school Vacancies Contact us The Journey So Far Hampton Gardens is a new Free School which is due to open in September 2017. The school will join Hampton College as part of the Hampton Academies Trust which was formed in September 2015. Home About The Journey So Far Hampton Gardens is being established in response to a call by Peterborough City Council and Cambridgeshire County Council for an educational provider to set up a school to deliver the additional capacity which is urgently required in the Hampton area of Peterborough, on the Cambridgeshire border. The school will serve the communities of Hampton, Peterborough and Yaxley, Cambridgeshire. The two Local Authorities ran a competitive process to appoint an Educational Provider and Hampton Academies Trust (HAT) was selected through this process as the preferred provider for the new school: Hampton Gardens. In October 2014 HAT submitted a Free School application to the DfE and in March 2015 it was announced that the HAT bid to open Hampton Gardens as a Free School had been successful. The pre-opening process then commenced and throughout the summer of 2015 the Trust worked with Peterborough City Council and Cambridgeshire Council Council to procure a contractor via the Education Funding Agency Contractors Framework. In August 2015 Carillion were announced the successful contractor and have subsequently worked with the Trust to develop the final design. Planning was granted in December 2015 and the construction programme to build the new school began in January 2016. We, the Trust, are extremely excited by the opportunity to establish a new school in our local community. Many of the project team – school staff and governors – were involved in leading the establishment of Hampton College itself in 2005, and therefore have direct experience in setting up an extremely successful school to serve our community. We have a strong vision for Hampton Gardens, and for the partnership between the new and existing schools, which will enable us to deliver a top quality education to children and young people in our area. < Back The Journey So Far Hampton Academies Trust View our other sites © Hampton Academies Trust 2016 | Registered Company Number: 9129775 Sitemap | Designed by Dsquared | Admin Login Progress, Partnership & Pride