A PRIMARY school will undergo major surgery six months after its main hall was ripped apart by fire.

Builders could take up to three years to repair the damage caused by the blaze at Scotstoun Primary School in December.

Planning chiefs have agreed to allow a temporary canteen and gym hall to be placed on the school’s sports pitch.

That’s after parents complained that kids were being crammed into a basement area for lunch and gym sessions.

Mum Janet Johnstone said pupils are only being given a short time to eat lunch, with many unable to finish their food.

She added: “The pupils are using an area of the school for PE, lunch and also after school club.

“The area itself is not large enough for the amount of pupils. The lunches provided are having to be staged in sittings and as a result my daughter often comes home hungry having felt she’s not had long enough at lunchtime.

“The building would provide a designated area big enough to provide the children what they deserve, while the annex is rebuilt.”

Another parent, Graeme Black said: “The school is currently totally hamstrung by the circumstances it finds itself in since the fire destroyed the previous hall.

“This has also had an impact on children’s learning with classrooms being used to teach gym classes.

“Refusing to provide something as basic as a space to comfortably eat food, socialise and relax is not something we would countenance in an adult environment, why should it be so for children?”

On Saturday, December 16 last year fire crews were called to tackle the fire in the roof of the school’s annex.

The fire affected the main canteen area, with council bosses claiming the damage was “limited”.

Children were back in class as normal the following Monday.

Since then kids have had to squeeze into the school’s basement where a stopgap canteen was set up at lunchtimes, with gym classes also taking place in the same hall.

The new makeshift building will be in place less than a year after a similar structure was removed from the sports pitch following the two-year renovation of Scotstoun Primary and St Paul’s School.

Parent council leaders claimed a generation of kids won’t have been able to use the school pitch.

But Katherine Glen, from Sibcas Ltd, who are providing the temporary hall, said: “The addition of the modular building will enable the school to progress with its overall development, assuring it reaches its goal of enhancing the quality of its teaching facilities.

“This enhancement of facilities will ensure it continues to excel as a highly marketable centre for education.

“The building shall provide accommodation for a gym, kitchen and dining hall which was lost in a recent fire.

“It is expected that the building shall remain on site until the permanent replacement is built.”