The organisation that will run the borough’s newest primary school in Seven Kings has been handed the keys to their building.

Work has already begun by E-Act to transform the Downshall Centre, Aldborough Road South, into a �2.8million free school ready for its first pupils in September. When full, it will cater for 420 pupils.

As a free school it will be independent of council �control and aims to reflect the views of the community.

E-Act chairman Noorzaman Rashid said: “We are �really looking forward to working very closely with the council and community to ensure that young people at the beginning of their �education have the very best possible start.

“E-Act has national experience of best practice in education and learning and we want to make sure that that experience can be utilised at a local level that is sensitive to the needs of Redbridge children and their families.”

The first places the Aldborough E-Act Free School aims to offer in the autumn are for reception and year 1.

You can apply for a place for your child at www.redbridge.gov.uk or visit Lynton House, High Road, Ilford.