IF something is not done now to rebuild Seven Fields School a child will be killed, say parents.

A meeting at the Penhill primary school yesterday was organised to give them a chance to find out how they can begin fighting for the school to be rebuilt.

As reported last week Swindon Council has gone back on its word and has said there is no money in the pot to rebuild the condemned school.

"This school is dangerous, bottom line," said Tim O'Sullivan, 45. The catalogue deliverer, of Avebury Road, who has two children at the school, Megan, 10, and Laura, nine, added: "Their ICT class is being held up by scaffolding. If that roof caves in, which it could do, those kids would be dead.

"If anything terrible like that happens it's going to be the council's fault for making the children work in these conditions.

"My children are in danger, all the children are in danger and I want to know what the council is going to do about it."

His wife Carole, 39, said: "No one from the council has even bothered to come to the school to see it. We all want to know why."

For the last three years children at Seven Fields have been working in horrendous conditions after the main building had to be vacated for safety reasons.

Huge cracks appeared in the floor and ceiling and now much of the Leigh Road school is being held up by metal rods.

The council said in January it had enough money - about £6m - to rebuild the school.

But two weeks ago it said it could not press on with the plan.

Meanwhile, children are being taught in mobile classrooms which are only expected to last another 18 months themselves.

A petition was started at the meeting and parents are hoping to take it to leader of the council, Coun Roderick Bluh (Con, Dorcan) before Christmas.

They have also all agreed to put pressure on the council until they get some answers, and are planning to bombard councillors with calls, emails and letters.

Steven Keye, 36, of Cricklade Road, who runs his own company, and his wife Tracey, 34, a university student, have two daughters at the school, Natalie, eight, and Madison, six.

"The council think people here are second class citizens and won't make a fuss but we're not and we're going to fight," he said.

Lisa Blackburn, 29, of Tockenham Way, has two children at the school, Christopher, nine, and Jake, five.

"I'm afraid the council are going to make us just move into the old Uplands building when they move to their new one because it's next door," she said.

"But it's not big enough and the conditions there are not great."