WORK is under way on new classrooms at a school to replace a demolished mobile unit.

Riverview Infant School, Cimba Wood, Gravesend, is having two new classrooms and a hall built.

The building replaces a large mobile building, with two classrooms, which had been at the school for 30 years.

Pupils, Kent County Council (KCC) officials, governors and representatives from the building company attended a ground-breaking ceremony.

Work began in March this year and is due to finish at the end of October.

The budget for the school's project is £550,000, with funding coming from KCC's Modernisation Programme, a pot of money which will be used to re-modernise primary school accommodation.

Headteacher Heather Suggitt said: "It will be wonderful when it is done."