The school opened in September 2012 at the site of the former Carlton Colville Primary School, and is the first free school to open in the Waveney district.
It serves a population of around 230,000 people in the Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft and Waveney area.
The district was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, and split between the new districts of borough of Great Yarmouth (in Norfolk) and the district of Waveney, in Suffolk.
The Member of Parliament is elected through the Waveney seat which.
A former local councillor, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Waveney constituency in Suffolk since winning the seat at the 2010 general election.
Waveney | River Waveney | Waveney (UK Parliament constituency) | Robert Adair, 1st Baron Waveney |
In the year of the Labour landslide he defeated the sitting MP David Porter by over 12,000 votes, and he was elected as the first Labour MP for Waveney.
It was separated from Lothingland by Oulton Broad and Lake Lothing through which the River Waveney formerly flowed to reach the sea.
It is located in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England and is managed under the James Paget Hospital NHS Trust and the Norfolk & Waveney Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust.
He now lives in the Waveney Valley in Norfolk, with his partner Polly Lavendar, and retreats to a boat on the Norfolk Broads.