Work is now well underway on a £100 million programme to complete the modernisation of Bristol's secondary schools.

Five comprehensives are being revamped and extended and a new special school is being built under the Government's Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme.

Bristol Local Education Partnership (LEP) has this month signed contracts with Bristol City Council to transform the schools, the last in the city to be rebuilt.

Builder Skanska is currently on site at all the schools – Ashton Park, Cotham, St Bede's, St Bernadette, St Mary Redcliffe and Temple and Florence Brown special school – and the work is scheduled for completion by 2011.

A special ceremony to mark the launch of development at all six sites is to be held at St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School in Somerset Square next Friday.

Construction is now underway on the sites and will be completed during 2010-2011. The LEP, city council and Skanska are working closely together to ensure that the work has minimal impact on students, staff and surrounding communities.

The LEP, a partnership including the city council, Skanska and the Government agency Partnerships for Schools, has already rebuilt four Bristol secondaries under the first BSF scheme in the country.

They are Bristol Brunel Academy, Bristol Metropolitan College, Brislington Enterprise College and The Bridge Learning Campus.

Four other secondaries – Henbury, Portway, Monk's Park and Bedminster Down – were rebuilt under a Private Finance Initiative scheme.

City Academy and Merchants' Academy were rebuilt under the academies programme and work is under way at Hengrove – now Oasis Academy.

Fairfield and Redland Green were built by the city council.

Paul Shadbolt, general manager of the Bristol LEP, said: "This is a great day for Bristol – we're delighted to be launching the next wave of new schools.

"We are developing schools that will help to radically transform teaching and learning for students, staff and local communities."

Councillor Clare Campion-Smith, cabinet member for children and young people, said: "This contract marks the final phase in the complete transformation of Bristol's secondary schools.

"Unrecognisable from just a few years ago, facilities in our schools will be among the best in the country.

"We are already seeing signs of increased confidence in our secondary schools and these excellent facilities, alongside rising standards, will help more parents choose Bristol schools."