Education chiefs will decide tomorrow when to reopen a school which was badly damaged by floods.

Carterton Community College headteacher Julie Tridgell is to meet Oxfordshire County Council education bosses and maintenance officers at the school to decide whether to delay the start of the new school term.

The college was the county's worst hit school in the torrential downpour which caused widespread floods late last month.

Builders have been working around the clock to replace flooring which was wrecked when the deluge hit the school in Upavon Way.

But a large part of the school is still unusable - and the meeting has been scheduled to decide when the school will reopen its gates to its 760 pupils.

Michael Waine, county council cabinet member for schools improvement, said opening might be delayed by one or two days.

Most schools will reopen next week starting Monday, September 3 - but Monday, September 10, has been put forward as a possible starting date for Carterton.

A total of 25 schools in Oxfordshire were affected by the flooding.

Some only suffered minor damage, but the bill at Carterton is expected to top £300,000.

Ms Tridgell said: "It was an absolute nightmare. The volume of water that came into the school was staggering. The drains could not cope."