TWO Dearne teachers joined hundreds in London this week to lobby the government over plans to axe the school rebuilding programme.

Swinton Community School was due to receive £17.5m from the Building Schools for the Future programme and Wath St Pius X School £11.9m.

They fall within the Rotherham phase of the programme and have had plans shelved. Both school buildings were built in the 1950s, have leaks in roofs and need modern teaching rooms.

Sean Murphy, a NASUWT union representative at St Pius, took part in the Westminster lobby. He said: “I wanted to lobby Nick Clegg because all the secondary schools in his constituency are new.

“I live in his constituency and on my way to work I pass all these wonderful schools. My own children are going to be fine but the children I teach are not. It isn’t fair.”