What were temporary outside classrooms called?

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There’s a specific name, not Canin/portacabin. I’m having one of those brain-melt moments and now can’t relax until I remember it. I know this is not of the greatest importance!

Yep mobiles here - we only had one at primary and it’s still there!

Demountables - 1980s primary school, Essex

Portacabins in my South Wales secondary in the 90s.

Terrapins at my old school

We called them the huts at primary and mobiles im high-school

Mobiles at my school, Elliott at my kids school.

Glasgow area here and were (excuse spelling) Horsa Huts . Commonly know as the huts .

We called them terrapins too. Thinking of them makes me remember the smell of melting plastic you got every time the heaters were switched on (which scalded the person sitting directly next to them but left everyone else damp and shivering). And also that we had “calculator lessons” when we were in that classroom, when the teacher would fetch a box full of ancient-even-then calculators with red LED screens and clunky on/off switches. Envied was the child who pulled out their flashy solar-powered calculator from their pencil case during that lesson.

Huts at my school.

We called them "demountables"

Prefabs here too.

The Huts. Three bloody years in the Huts at Primary before I made it into the main school. God they were cold in winter.

Demountables at our school.

70's, Terrapins

Huts in my old school.

Terrapins, in 70s Norfolk.

That and the wooden ruler for misbehaving.

Mobiles, and we loved them! Light bright and airy with windows you could look through over the school field. So much better than the classrooms in the main Victorian era block with the high windows designed for light and ventilation but not 'distracting' children from lessons! As a bonus, the doors were left open in good weather and it bad we were cocooned in a little warm box. Nostalgic 😬

Ours were called annexes.

When I was at school we called them mobiles. Dh knows them as terrapins. The ones we have at school are called the pods.

We had the Rosla and also the huts. Someone set fire to the huts so they were out of bounds for a long time. I remember they rescued some of our textbooks and my RE book smelling of smoke and having singed edges - still used them though!

Huts in the 60’s
Terrapins in the 70’s for me
Yes there are still a few ROSLA buildings around, one near me in Hampshire

Prefabs? Short for prefabricated.

We called them portacabins, early 2000s in Edinburgh.

Terrapins at my school. The primary had a terrapin classroom, terrapin dining hall and terrapin toilet block. My secondary had 4 terrapin classrooms in two blocks of two.

Huts or mobiles. My school had loads aquired over the years as it expanded or underwent repairs to reattach the walls to each other.

At my final s hool event of y13, building works rearranged the usual parking arrangements and my mother went through part of the school she hadn't seen in 30 years "Oh, the temporary huts are still there!" They predated her!

That particular hut used to make me yawn produsely through A-level Engish as the air was so damp and the windows would steam up in minutes. I sat down the cold end rather than being roasted next to the creaky heater. My teacher never believed that the yawning was specfic to that room!

I'm guessing they finally went in the mid 2000s when it was decided that it was just simpler to stop with all the patching and fixing and start all over again.