What were temporary outside classrooms called?

[TeddyIsaHe]

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!

Ours were chalets.

Mobiles too.

Except the one we did GCSE Latin in which was the Temple of Apollo.

We call them "the modulars" at ours but that doesn't really make sense🤷‍♀️

We also called them The Huts!

Demountables in 70s/80s Essex.

Demountables

Terrapin.

Demountables down here in Oz

Huts at my school too

Huts - '80s, Dorset. I think they went up about 1980 when it moved from junior to middle school, and for a couple of years, there were extra years to accommodate at the school, though it took till the late '90s and a rebuilding programme till they went.

We had a ROSLA block at my secondary school, but it was just an extension of the main building, not huts, added on in 1974 or whenever the leaving age went up. There were also some huts and I remember having geog in one of them, but they disappeared one summer, I think just before I went into the 5th year (y11 for you modern types .) My father became a parent governor about the time I went into the 6th form, and then a non-parent governor after we left school and was on the buildings committee when they went through a buying programme which demolished the ROSLA block, because it was much less soundly but than the original parts of the building. It's now much bigger and mostly unrecognisable than in my day, apart from the main entrance/reception area.

not buying - building programme

Huts here in the South East. I can almost remember the smell of them, especially when it rained, a sort of wet carpet smell. Only the oldest primary year used it so it like a big event when I got to that age. Some of the kids had their first snog behind it. Not me . Good memories

Terrapins ( 1970s North Warwickshire).
We had them at work until about 2005. Used to stink of damp and old coffee.

Roslas at my school, which was short for the raising of the school leaving age. This was 40 years ago!

We had a Horsa hut at my primary school. It had been installed in the 40's at my primary as part of the 'Hutting Operation for the Raising of the School-Leaving Age' scheme. That was when they raised the school leaving age to 15; Rosla buildings are from when the leaving age was raised to 16. I left primary school in 1990....

Terrapins at secondary school - much worse built than the Horsa hut of my primary years.

We had a Rosla block for the 6th form - had no idea what it stood for!

We had one either side of the long jump pit. So on summer afternoons there would be a regular thundering of feet, followed by a bang as feet hit board and the runner usually faceplanted the sand.
We also had a guinea pig in ours which added to the general odour of smoking teacher and adolescent BO.
Happy days.

Huts at my infant school in the 1980s. And they’re still there

Portakabin

Nissan huts, commonly known as huts.

Terrapins at my school. I think it was the name of the company that made or supplied them.

Huts at my school!

@bathorshower

We had a Horsa hut at my primary school. It had been installed in the 40's at my primary as part of the 'Hutting Operation for the Raising of the School-Leaving Age' scheme. That was when they raised the school leaving age to 15; Rosla buildings are from when the leaving age was raised to 16. I left primary school in 1990....

Terrapins at secondary school - much worse built than the Horsa hut of my primary years.

I work with schools and know of several HORSA huts that are still in use today.

I had a demountable classroom during juniors - not sure why, maybe they were refurbishing the main building. It was nicer, had carpet tiled floor instead of Lino.

We didn’t have them at the schools where I did most of my education, then moved to a new school 50 miles away for my last year and they were called terrapins - but why?