Nduta Waionaina, left, May Wilkinson, Clare Moroney and Louise Fuller outside one of the classrooms Pupils are campaigning for damp, rotting temporary classrooms at their Oxfordshire school to be replaced with "proper classrooms made of brick".

Wheatley Park School students Mary Wilkinson, Clare Moroney, Nduta Wainaina and Louise Fuller, all 15, are calling for cramped mobile classrooms to be demolished.

The Holton school's stock of 16 temporary classrooms -- one of the largest in the county -- was refurbished over the summer, but pupils say money would be better spent replacing the buildings instead of patching them up.

Oxfordshire County Council said Wheatley Park was "next on the list" in its scheme to replace temporary buildings across the county.

The girls, who are preparing for their GCSE exams, will be writing to the education authority and their MP Boris Johnson calling for more urgent action.

Mary, whose form room was in a temporary classroom last year, said: "The heating didn't often work in the winter, a hole was kicked through the back wall, the building shook when more than three people jumped at the same time and the walls bent when they were leaned on.

"I want to know why we have to learn in horrible, smelly classrooms. How can we meet Government targets while sat in classrooms that are leaking, shaking and falling apart?"

Clare Moroney, 15, said: "There are problems opening the fire escapes, so if there was a fire we wouldn't be able to get out easily.

"We like the new buildings. The classrooms are warm, you can open the windows easily and you are less likely to get distracted. We want proper classrooms made of brick."

Nduta Wainaina, 15, said: "The temporary buildings are horrible. They are better since they were refurbished but we need new buildings."

Louise Fuller, 15, added: "The teachers work really hard to make them look nice and put up displays -- it must be hard to teach in them."

Headteacher Kate Curtis said: "We are pleased that at least some of the temporary buildings will be replaced. It's long overdue. The temporary buildings are always targeted by vandals. You end up throwing good money after bad."

Michael Mill, the council's senior education officer for planning and development, said: "We've done a lot of work at Burford School and Didcot Girls' School, which has brought Wheatley Park to the top of the list. We haven't got a firm timescale, but it's a priority."