Education, education, education. Tony Blair’s soundbite ahead of the 1997 General Election will no doubt be repeated in the next few weeks, albeit with a different spin on the same theme.

All political parties recognise the blatanly obvious importance of investment in our schools and our children’s futures.

Which makes it all the more galling that five and six-year-olds at one of our schools are being taught in the school hall due to a leaky classroom roof.

Children, who are still getting use to school, friends and a new environment, deserve better.

It is a disgrace children are being taught in a school hall for so long.

We have a huge amount of sympathy for the teachers who are doing their best.

But whatever the reason is for the leak, it comes at a time when funding in education is, quite rightly, in the spotlight.

When schools should be focusing their attention on their pupils, they are having to cut corners, and staff, the make ends meet.

Education funding must be a priority for whichever Government is leading out country on December 13.