Work starts this morning to remove temporary classrooms from a Bishop Auckland Auckland school.
The buildings behind Bishop Barrington School, in Woodhouse Lane, were used by Murphy Crescent special school until children moved out under a shake-up of services last summer.
Murphy Crescent set up a temporary home in the ten demountable classrooms after their school building in Woodhouse Close was destroyed in an arson attack in June 1997.
Primary age pupils now go to the new Evergreen school in Warwick Road, Bishop Auckland, and seniors to the Oaks, in Spennymoor.
A crane is due to move on to the site at the beginning of next week and work should be completed by Friday.
For safety reasons, the student entrance to the school and a car park left of the main gates will both be closed.
Parents are being asked not to drive on to the site next week when extra staff will be on duty at the beginning and the end of each day as well as lunchtimes.
Students will leave at different times to ease congestion in Woodhouse Lane.
Headteacher Bruce Guthrie appealed to motorists to be extra careful near the school entrance.
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