A six-year-old boy has launched his own campaign to pressure a council for funds to repair his dilapidated school.

Joshua Juniper, a pupil at Holy Trinity C of E Primary School in Lower Beeding, has written to The Argus after a council called off the rebuilding of his school.

Joshua found out on Friday his school's £3 million rebuild this summer was cancelled by West Sussex County Council.

In his letter Joshua wrote: "Our school is desperate for a rebuild and has waited a long time to get granted the money. We have lots of leaks and it is unfit for purpose, unless they rebuild my school as planned this summer."

Joshua's letter also urged people to put pressure on the council to reinstate the funding by attending a meeting this Friday, February 9.

It continued: "I love my school and really want it not to leak anymore and have somewhere to do proper PE lessons, have a proper library and not loose my classroom as it is falling down."

Joshua, of Handcross Road, has been determined to help his school as much as he can and was busy over the weekend delivering flyers to residents about what is happening.

He said: "It's falling apart and it's got a lots of cracks and things are falling down. We need a new school because someone might get injured."

Mum Zoe Juniper, a 32-year-old geophysicist, said: "I'm devastated. The school was top of West Sussex County Council's league tables last year.

"It's an excellent school and I can not believe they have pulled the funding."

Without the rebuild, pupils will continue having lessons in temporary buildings, including some that have subsided.

Council officers met with governors and head teacher Tracey Bishop yesterday to give them the bad news officially.

The director for children and young people's services at the council, Robert Back, said the rebuild had been cancelled due to central government cutting the council's capital grant by £2 million and that Holy Trinity was not the only school to suffer.

He said: "West Sussex's revenue settlement was one of the poorest in the country and this means we can no longer support capital development as we used to. As a result, our schools will suffer.

"We need no extra encouragement to invest in schools.

"We will continue to press the case with the Department for Education and Skills for our fair funding and continue to explore other options for Holy Trinity C.E. Primary School and other schools."