Schools have been expanded to create space for extra pupils.

New classrooms have been built across a number in schools in Barnet, including Brunswick Park Primary School in Osidge Lane, Barnet, and Moss Hall Infant and Junior Schools in Moss Hall Grove, Finchley.

The expansions will create more than 1,000 permanent primary school places in the borough. Barnet Borough Council aims to provide around 4,500 new school places by 2016/17.

Robin Warren, headteacher of Moss Hall Infant School, said: “The children came back to school very excited to be able to occupy their new classrooms. They have been watching the construction over the past few months and were amazed by the transformation inside now they are all brightly decorated and furnished.

“They're bright, and there’s lots of light. The outside classroom area also looks great. We’re very happy with it, and the children really like them.”

Since 2010/11, around 3,000 new primary school places have been created in the borough.

In addition to the primary school expansions, a new primary school, Millbrook Park in School House Lane, Mill Hill East, opened in September 2014. 

Golders Green Councillor Reuben Thompstone, chairman of the children, education, libraries and safeguarding committee, said: “These expansions are the result of months of painstaking planning and hard work by school staff and council officers and I am delighted to see so many new pupils enjoying their new classrooms."