A project to build a school building has been completed in four days.

Temporary classrooms to replace fire-ravaged Hardwick Primary School, in Sedgefield, County Durham, which was hit by an arson attack in January, have been erected on the site.

The 32 units, which have been slotted together Lego-style, is the largest project of its kind undertaken by Durham County Council.

A spokesman said: "Things have gone smoothly and the work has progressed according to schedule.

"From this week, we will start putting services into the building - electricity and water, that sort of thing - and we will also be starting to move in the fixtures, fittings and furniture."

The first pupils are due to move into the school in the week starting May 14.

Key stage two pupils, currently studying at Sedgefield Community College, will be moved back first.

Sarah Guest, deputy headteacher, said: "To all intents and purposes, it is going to be a school community, not just a set of classrooms.

"We are going to be able to run it as a community, with the hall, assemblies, dinners and things like that.

"The building looks impressive. I think people visualised it as little huts, and it is not like that at all - it looks like a school building and, from the inside, it will look very much the business."