The project includes building a 420-pupil primary school with 26 nursery places and a 1,800-place secondary school that will replace the ageing accommodation.

The schools have been designed utilising Wates’ Adapt Schools Solutions model, a standardised solution that facilitates the time and cost efficient delivery of new school buildings.

Following completion, some of the former school buildings will be demolished and replaced with landscaped grounds and new sports facilities.

Hand over and occupation of the primary school is due for September 2016 and for the secondary school early 2017.

The Barking, Dagenham and Newham batch being delivered through the PSBP also includes Little Ilford School in Newham and Eastbrook School in Dagenham.

This latest project forms part of over £150m worth of new and refurbished school buildings under the PSBP that Wates has been appointed to deliver since the Education Funding Agency launched the programme in 2011.

These have included new schools in Coventry, the North West and East of England.