The principal of Clonbonny National School is appealing to Department officials to visit her school and see the space they have to educate over 100 pupils.
Joan Donnelly is the principal of the Athlone primary school where the only isolation space they can offer a pupil who becomes sick is a garden shed in the schoolyard.
She says she has been begging the Department for a portacabin since guidelines were issued for reopening schools in early July but has been turned down as it would require planning permission.
Ms Donnelly was told by officials instead, that she needed to knock interior walls and erect partitions but when she sought the advice of an engineer and builder, they told her there was no way she would be able to reopen in time if the works went ahead.
She says they have been forced into a very difficult situation and they seriously need help:
