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Hundreds of schools in the south-west of England are still being forced to use temporary classrooms, it has emerged.

A report published by the then Department for Education and Skills in May revealed that 1,106 new schools and 27,000 new or improved classrooms were built during Tony Blair's decade as prime minister.

The government has also pledged to continue allocating substantial funding to capital projects in schools through its flagship Building Schools for the Future programme.

However, figures compiled by the Western Daily Press suggest that the money is not arriving quickly enough for many schools, as around 35,000 children in 804 of the south-west's schools still have to attend lessons in temporary classrooms.

Diane Grebby, headteacher at Bathford Primary School in Bath, which has had to use mobile classrooms for the past 18 years, told the newspaper: "The buildings get hot in the summer and cold in the winter and the staff morale can be low at times."

However, she added that having to use the temporary buildings had not had an adverse impact on the school's exam results.

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Last Edited Date : January 3 2008 3:07 pm