A school is asking parents for help with routine refurbishments and repairs over the summer after funding pressures forced it to cut its maintenance budget.
Avenue Junior School has organised a day for families to help with tasks such as painting and gardening on Sunday, August 25.
In a message to parents this week, executive headteacher Debbie Dismore said the school's "difficult financial position" had forced it to make cuts to all areas of spending, including the upkeep of its Victorian building.
Jobs which need completing include repainting, window-cleaning, pruning and hedge-trimming as well as other general repairs.
Ms Dismore said decorators and gardeners were normally contracted in the summer break to complete these tasks, but that this year the school could not cover the expense.
"We have had cuts to our budget over a number of years and it has left us in a difficult financial position, like a lot of schools," she said.
"It is not acceptable that we are not given enough money to provide a good-quality education and also to maintain the building.
"We have to keep it looking nice for the children and there are parts that are crumbling that we cannot afford to improve."
In response to previous questions about school funding, the government has said it is pumping more money into education than ever before.
Avenue Junior parents were quick to rally around their school, which is in Norwich's sought-after Golden Triangle area.
Hannah Colbourn, parent to a child in year four at the school, said: "My family will be volunteering, but this is such a sorry reflection on the state of the education system that our school has had to resort to this."
Malissa Rayfield, whose has children in years three and four, said: "It's a tragedy that the school has to ask at all. Funding cuts send the message to our children that they aren't worth paying for. We will do all we can to protect them from this and I think more communities will pull together because they have to."
Rebecca Harris, whose has children in years four and six, said: "The community will step up and help our brilliant school, but we are also furious about what austerity measures have done to real people at the grass roots of our education system."
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