Where pupils ‘cross the yard in the rain’

STUDENTS at Ennis National School spend their lunch breaks playing around the cars parked by staff in the yard — because of the number of prefabs on the grounds.

The school was built in 1972 to cater for 16 teachers, but 26 years later it has more than 40 staff and almost half of them work in prefabs.

The school is home to 16 prefabs in which seven classes are taught, with the rest used by 11 of the school’s resource, learning support and language support teachers.