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My junior school had one in 1981, its still there now.
They are temporary, you kids are just temporarier.
-This school, probably.
I've had kids and grandkids use the same temporary classroom as the one I used.
They will build a solid one when they get the funding 💀
Most British schools barely have a budget for the PE department, let alone a special budget for a football team, I think you're thinking of America.
US speak - UK speak:
College - University
Football - Rugby
So American College Football is actually American University Rugby.
You can't change my mind.
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That isn't a thing in the UK. Nobody is sad enough to give a shit about school sports.
In the UK? Most schools are spending literally nothing on their football team
At most, one of the teachers gives up an hour a week for training and the school maybe spends £500 every few years for some new kits or cones. But usually it falls to the parents to fund it
This isn’t America
My secondary school got one in 1985, the company that leased it out went out of business and no one came to reclaim it so it was still there when I left school
Our comp had a dozen of them. Oh I still remember the smell of calor gas heaters in the winter.
You had heaters?! Ooh check out their majesty, everyone! HEATERS!
Snap, we had lessons in there daily
My schools one from 80s only got knocked down when the main building did a few years back.
It's just so hard to get good quality asbestos construction these days though
These were for the bad kids in my school, “The Huts” either this or the isolation room, a small room with no windows, no talking and a clock on the wall.
Damn that brings back memories.. do isolation rooms still exist? My school had 3 in the main office all of em probably around 10ftx6ft or so and looking back on it seems pretty inhumane.. i remember once i had "in school suspension" and everyday spent the entire day in there.. albeit i would escape every once and a while mostly just to shoot spit balls and what not at the other kids in isolation rooms.
Still existed when I left school in 2016.
I was in there twice in 5 years. Once because a bully and their friends lied about me hitting him. The next day also because the second I got out i went and actually hit him (multiple times).
Funniest part of it is that I was a high achiever in maths and science, I spent the day doing isolation worksheets with questions like 12*3=?, what role does the heart have in the body?. And the teachers in there refused to let me do my actual work.
Yup, left school this year and we still had one. They change what being sent to it is called every few years because the previous name had 'negative connotations'. I believe right now it's the 'reset room'
Were these individual rooms? Damn. Back in the 80s/90s in Canada we had one room, maybe 8ft x 12ft, with three or four carrel desks. Probably leftovers from the library.
If you got in trouble, you'd just get to sit at a desk in this room the rest of the day. No talking to anyone else in the room, but it feels more humane than being alone in your own isolation room.
yea individual rooms
My isolation room had bars on the windows. Legit
yea that’s how they start em off
They gave you a clock? Lucky.
That helps with the punishment aspect of it because you can really focus on how bored you are and how much time is left.
Fair enough. At my school there wasn't even a clock, I figured it was so you didn't know how long you had been in there or how long was left. Seems equally as cruel.
the isolation room
What the fuck kind of gulag school did you go to?
Lol, ours had a ps2 and gamecube in the 00s, most lunchtimes involved the hut
The ones at my school were condemned a decade before I got there, and were there when I left.
Full of asbestos and sketchy gas heaters with no insulation
You got heaters!
Sometimes they even worked!
Tell me more! Did you have functioning clocks as well?
We used to get taught in a cardboard box in middle of t'motorway..
The ones at my school were falling apart. Kids used to throw their backpacks at them and they'd leave a dent/hole.
Ohh my temporary classroom that was replaced by another temporary classroom wasn't double glazed.
When I was there some got replaced I'm sure you can guess what with
I looked at my old primary school on Google maps the other week and they were gone. It has been 30 years since I left but I half expected them to still be there.
My secondary school had them when I started 27 years ago. They are still there.
Saw your comment and checked my secondary school.
And they're gone!
They actually built a new building!
It only took them the best part of 40 years.
Lol, I did the same a few months ago and the same thing.. Portacabins that were already old when I went to there 30+ years ago and they are still there today
I just checked and mine are still there 20 years later...
Cue the slight buzzing sound of electric heaters.
I can still smell them
The slight burning smell from the heating element?
That and the smell of melting plastic.
I loved these class rooms and have nostalgia for them.
Yeah, ditto.
We had them, and they were meant to be temporary - but our school was otherwise built in the 60s and nothing worked. The roof leaked, the heating squeaked, half the windows were broken or leaking, everywhere was draughty, and on a sunny day you seemed to have the sun in your eyes at all times unless it was noon.
Those temporary classrooms were rudimentary but at least they were new, and functional.
My secondary school got one in 1985, the company that leased it out went out of business and no one came to reclaim it so it was still there when I left school
Did everyone have the same childhood or something. It seems like everyone has the same experience
Yeah I thought it was just me. Why did so many schools have these?
If you went to a comp or other non-private school, then these were necessary due to Tory govt underinvestment prior to 1997. After 1997 many schools got new buildings (but paid for with dodgy PPP loans which schools are still paying for now).
Reagan and Thatcher, fucking over education, mental health, and well, basically everything.
Because the U.K. is actually a poor country.
A bit more background on why these existed in secondary schools. The 1944 Education Act said that the school leaving age would rise from 14 to 16; the age went up to 15 quickly but successive governments delayed the second increase to save money. In 1971, the government finally decided to raise the age from 1 September 1972. This short notice meant many schools had to quickly put up temporary classrooms to accommodate the extra pupils (in schools without a sixth-form it was a 25% increase and the construction industry was short of capacity due to another policy, the 'Barber boom'). So they were often known as ROSLA buildings, for Raising Of the School Leaving Age.
But that doesn't explain why they were still being used to decades later or in primary schools. u/AlessaDark is completely right that Tory underinvestment was the main reason that they were used for so long.
That’s a luxury! We had proper builders porta cabins in the early 80’s. The mains electric was a cable from the main building, across the roofs, and into the cabin. They had old fluorescent tubes that flicked and a small electric fire in the corner that never worked, in the winter we worked in our coats. While we worked in them there was unused classrooms in the main building.
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Literally have seen this SO many times
The music hut
Oh my god this is exactly what we used these for in my primary school 😂
Someone set fire to my high school and the whole school was using them lol
Someone set fire to
My high school and the whole school
Was using them lol
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We called them the turtle huts
We called them terrapins at school. No idea what the real name for them is though.
Same here!
The ones we had were wooden and we called them the cowsheds.
We had one where we kept all the r.e stuff. We called it the holy huts. It finally got knocked down tho.
We called them demountables
My year were the last to have the prefab - there was a weird pride in freezing your tits off whenever it fell below 18°
That was the “T block” at my high school because it was “temporary”. They were there before I started and still there after I left. I’m the winter they let you keep your coats on in classes in there because it was so cold
Ours was known as the M block, because it was apparently mobile. Never saw it move though.
We called them demountables. They used to get really fucking hot in the summer. There used to be a fan attached to the wall, but I never saw it turned on!
literally thought this was a picture of my school💀
We called them demountables
My primary school had one of these. It was half classroom, half ICT room. Used to get absolutely baking hot in the summers. I'm fairly sure it was there before I started, and continued to be used long after I left. A few years ago I heard that the roof of the main school building was deemed structurally unsafe so now, to the best of my knowledge, half of the entire school is being run from out of an enormous prefab that would make the little year 4 one blush.
We had a row of them, and there was a big announcement one year that the temporary classrooms were getting a renovation.
They are still there 12 years later.
They put them in at my school, built two massive new buildings and removed one of the three.
There when I arrived, there when I left. 17 years later they are now slightly larger than they were
I work in a 'temp' cabin that was put in for a project 20 years ago. Now it has had carpeting added to the offices, the roof repaired in several places etc. I guess it's just cheaper than building a 'permanent' structure/gets around planning requirements.
The one we had at school was just a wooden structure like someone had put it together in minecraft, except we were using it a decade before that came out.
The junior school where my kid went to have a portacabin that is 20 odd years old.
At one point they had to close it off because the floor had literally collapsed.
Everyone thought they have to replace it but nope, they just cut out all the rotten timber, replaced it and gave it a lick of paint over the summer.
What they didn't do was fix the plumbing so the toilets and sinks are still out of order and they had no plans to fix them because they simply don't have the money..
I can't tell from this image if that IS my school (they were called "The Portables". They did not move the duration I was there)
Urgh. The memory of deciding whether you wanted to walk in the rain to go to the toilet inside the main school building or endure holding it in and stay in class.
We had five of them
My school installed one in ‘02 and it was still standing in ‘11 when the school was knocked down. They used it as site office for the demolition.
They finally removed in ‘22 after it served as the site office for the new housing development.
Twenty years.
I was in high school from 2006 to 2011. My sister is 9 years older than me & went to the same school… they were already there when she started in 1997, and they were only removed about 5 years after I left. They were there for at least 20 years.
Still there now (to be fair, replaced with newer ‘temporary’ classrooms)
I left 35 years ago.
The local school has these for around 15 years, when the school was demolished they actually took the 'temporary' classrooms away so they are probably providing 'temporary' classrooms somewhere else now.
Them being temporary was one of the longest running jokes in the UK
My boarding school had 'huts' back in 1993... Still there on Google maps, they can't be cheap to heat in the winter ❄️❄️❄️❄️
I was at school in the 80’s and some of the classrooms were huts from WWII.
They were temporary. But bear in mind that most buildings would be expected to last 100 years or more, so anything less than that would be considered temporary.
You have these? We had them in Ireland as well. Mad.
When I started in year 7 our “Mobiles” had been there so long they were held together with only Hubba Bubba and broken dreams.
Fucking hell, these got put up at my school in like 2001, I left in 2003 and they're still there today!
God forbid a child was ever sick in them. There was no way to remove the vomit smell
Damn I studied for O levels in some of those.
My high school bought 16 and built a second gym, the following year the district whas redrawn and the portables were removed and the gym has been locked and shut ever since. Really glad I graduated before that cuz now the school has no money
They called it “the mobile classroom”, but the one at my old primary school hasn’t moved since at least 1986
Someone from my form kicked a hole in the wall, form tutor had a massive go at us, ‘it’s alright miss,’ someone pipes up, ‘we’ll sort it,’ proceeds to stuff his empty crisp packet into the hole, immediately gets a detention, then over the next few weeks we all fill the hole with crisp packets. They just stayed there the entire time we were there, probably still there now.
I was in one of these for a whole year of primary but it was better than the actual building considering it was the only one with air con
We used to poke holes through the walls with pencils. Although they had been there for years already, they actually removed them a few hears after I started.
4 years whilst built a new sports hall costing 1.5 mill.. i left after them 4 years, the following year they knocked the entire school down, including the sports hall 🤷
We had a doctors surgery made from them in the 80s. Wish there was some images of it. This was in cramlington, eastfield lea, (Uk).
I can still hear the loud echo of footsteps and the lingering damp smell.
At my kids primary school one had been there that long toadstools were growing out of it.
At least they sealed. My high school, before the apparent refurbishment that was the genesis of this flu boxes, had an “annex” for maths; A standalone building with each classroom having it’s own external door. They were big, sliding, wooden doors that didn’t seal in the middle. Just locked.
Maths in December in northern Scotland in your jacket and beanie hat. Ah, I don’t fucking miss it.
at mine they were put up for when I started year 7 and taken down after I finished year 11. they were there for the same 5 years as me
They were so temporary that they were there when I was and still there when my son attended same school.
Not true. Ours were condemned unfit for human habitation in our second to last year, so we only had to use them a further 6 months.
The ones at the school where I work are lovely, they have air con , can control their own heating, away from the main hustle and bustle of the main school plus they have a massive teachers cupboard rather than trying to find a new place to stash everything you need for the year.
The ones at my school had bars on the windows and were used to house the naughty kids
One of the schools I went to, the site is barely recognisable from the air because a lot of buildings have been flattened and the entire area has been rebuilt. But the temporary buildings that housed the sixth form common rooms are still there, despite literally everything around them changing. I went there twenty years ago.
My first secondary school was essentially made of these. Lots of these on a big field. Turned out to be much better than the newly built school they opened soon after I started.
I'm currently at school in the US (born in the UK) and this happens here too, ours just look worse
The temporary buildings for the University of Copenhagen were in use from the 70s until the start-00s afair.
Didn't affect anybody important though, it was just the Humanities faculty.
Hold up I recognise that school, that’s my secondary school and we used it as a temporary computer science and art room
Had them at my primary school. I don't think my school ever used them, but we had about 6 surrounding schools in a rural area that did use them. We had a new school built during a summer, but the rest of them just got built whenever, so the displaced students got sent over to us.
Some of my fondest terrible memories of school happened in portacabins.
I left secondary school in early 2001, those “temporary language” buildings are still there on the school website 22 years later. I bet the floors are spongier than wet biscuits and creakier than my nan’s knees.
Had one of these in my secondary school, it was already temporary when my uncle went there decades before.
That was in Portugal, though. Seems like we all have the exact same nonsense going on!
My school was having the sports hall and changing rooms rebuilt so the whole boys and girls PE classes got changed in one of these with just a thick old black sheet separating them. Wasn't the best idea.
I left school 10 years ago, went to pick up my cousin the other week and they’re STILL THERE
I had English in here for one year, it was fun being in a disconnected room although I remember the radiators / heaters were really hot like it felt like they were on fire.
We had 3 generations of these dotted around parts of my school. One was definitely 80s era with dark wood paneled walls, one looked like a shed with a carpet inside and the newer one from early 00s/late 90s was basically a plastic cube with windows.
The air con in these things was heaven back in Australia, my year 4 class was in one of them and it was like walking into a freezer lol
My school had a few of these, they had to have been at least 20 years old, maybe 30.
They were in a shocking condition, I can remember one winter the class in this were so cold we were wearing coats, gloves and hats despite the 'heating' being on.
I went to school and they were there. My 18 year old went there and they were there. My 11 year old went to the same school and has just left and they are still there.
I was at my primary school when they put the 2 we had in. They were for the year 5 and 6 classes. I was ~year 3 or so and had a ways to go before I used them. They were always referred to as the temporary classrooms, they smelt new and felt quite swanky so I was happy when a couple of years later I got to spend my last 2 years at the school using them.
They're still there now. I'm in my 30s. In a couple of years my first child could theoretically go to that school and feel the same way as I did around 25 years ago, achingly close to being able to use them before they're taken away.
My old primary put one of these in about one year before I left.
7 years later it’s still there as if it was just installed
We had them finally get rid of one that had been there for about 40 years, only to replace it with a new model of the exact same thing and insist that one’s ‘just a temporary fix’
To get around planning laws at the time.
Ours we built before I started and are still there 28 years later.
Ahh this is a throwback! We had them for the entire time I was in secondary school and then they were gone after we left 6th form. Eastbury
Facts we had them everywhere and I am in secondary school now and my sister says they are still there!
Why did we call them the terrapins?
Terrapin was the name of one of the companys that made them.
The ones at my college that were there when I started, are still there now.
I left 13 years ago.
They only got knocked down 10 years after I left.
We called them "Cardboard City".
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They are technically temporary for planning permission reasons, but are never intended to be removed
Lowkey think they're still there in the boys playground, been about 20 years !
YESSSS
In the US we call these “the annex” 😁
I have to walk past my old primary school almost every day, they’re still there to this day
Oh dam! Lol
How long is temporary.
With the way education budgets are going, I’m surprised we don’t have more of these due to school buildings falling apart.
We had those at my highschool, they installed them I think 2008
There is nothing more permanent than a temporary solution
Haha my school had two classrooms like that, did Maths a couple of years in one.
Cold as fuck in the winter too.
My secondary school had them while my older brother started and they were still there when I left 10 years later.
I drive past fairly regularly and they're stillcthere now, 22 years later!
These were for the special kids, I don't think anyone with a degree ever set foot in them
And were fucking freezing.
Honestly had to double take there, picture looks identical to my primary school memories.
The temporary builds where our French classes were taught were there when my Grandma attended in the 1950s.
I never had these it must have been because my school was less than 10 years old when I started but there still isn't any at the school now. The other primary school in my area spent around 10 years fully in these cabins and only got proper buildings last September.
Hahaha facts.
I laughed, and I cried... +1
School I work in still has them for year 6.
Looks like West Ham’s training ground
Oh look, the year 5 huts
Those were my second favourite classrooms!
True of schools and workplaces.
Is that... Broard Green?
Pretty sure my middle school ones are still there 20+ years later..So much for temporary..
we got these at my high school in the late 80s when my mother was there, they were still there when i left last year
Our school called them prefabs pe fabricated. Cold in winter and too dam hot in summer.
The hollow floors that boomed when you walked on them
Just had a look on google at my primary school that I left in the early 90’s, they had two of them when I was there, they’re still there.
They only got rid of the temporary“huts” from my high school when they knocked the entire thing down.
My school never said they were temporary 💀
The ones at my school did actually get torn down and the new building put in their place… right as I was leaving after my A levels, they’d been there longer than I had though…
My secondary school realised that the main school was unstable on the top 3 floors and unsafe. So the answer was to build 20 of these bad boys until a new school was built. It did only take them 2 years to build a new school so it was 'temporary', but having just about every lesson in them for 2 years wasn't much fun.
Good old porta cabin
ROSLA
Raising of School Leaving Age
When the school never really knew what to do with sixth formers and realises they showed all the other students how many personal freedoms you were allowed and how the uniform didn't actually matter so they just bunged them all in these makeshift ovens for days at a time
Been there since at most 2004
Tory Britain in a nutshell.
They were added to many school sites to accommodate extra pupils due to the Raising of the School Leaving Age. Hence the common name ROSLA.
And again when it became compulsory to stay in eduction until the age of 18.
They’ve been installed with Labour and Tory governments.
Perfect little smokeboxes
I drove by my primary school. Left over 20 years ago. Still has the temporary builds there.
We had worse than that in the 90's
They’re only ‘temporary’ to get around planning regulations
We used to bake in there, and it always smelled weird too
do they have black mold infestations like the ones that schools in the USA sometimes have?
Actually so true
every building is temporarily if you consider a long enough time horizon ¯\(ツ)/¯
Tory governments, innit?
It's still there 20 years later.
This is actually from my hometown
The ones at my school were much shitter, some of them were still there maybe 20 years after I left!