Nursery teacher who called pupils 'little s***s' is banned from the classroom
A nursery class teacher, who was found to have physically and verbally abused the little ones in her care, has been banned from the classroom for two years.
Miss Angela Hughes, who taught at the SS Peter and Paul's Catholic primary school in Ilford, Essex, had also seen dragging the three and four-year-old children by their arms to different areas of the nursery from the garden area. A parent who saw an incident wrote: "I felt sick to my stomach and full of fear because does this happen to my child on a daily basis?"
Another adult said they saw the 48-year-old teacher snatch a toy trolley from a child and drag them back inside the nursery. Hughes said she had intervened to stop two children fighting.
A Teaching Regulation Agency conduct panel heard Hughes use inappropriate language when talking to the pre-schoolers. The panel heard she called them 'little gits', 'little s***s', called one pupil 'thick' and stated 'Could you get him out of my face before I do some serious damage; when talking about a pupil. Hughes was also found guilty of shouting at the children in an uncontrolled manner which left them looking frightened.
The conduct panel heard Hughes failed in her safeguarding duties because she laughed when another member of staff, tried to get children to sit down by kicking the back of their legs so they fell - an action done in a 'jokey' manner rather than maliciously. The panel said Hughes was guilty of unacceptable professional conduct. She has been banned from teaching for the next two years.
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Earlier this month, we reported how a teacher was jailed for using a secret camera to take upskirting pictures of dozens of pupils and staff has been banned from the classroom for life.
Jeffrey Wilson, now 31, used a camera pen to film his victims and a nanny cam to spy on a female family friend undressing in what police called "a truly disturbing case". Wilson committed his crimes at two separate schools.
During vetting procedures designed to protect pupils from predators, no red flags were raised against him. The police raided Wilson's house in Cambridgeshire, after an IP address was linked to viewing indecent images of children online. There, they found 53,000 indecent videos and pictures of children. In total, 45 upskirting images were taken at the two schools over a six-month period from April to September 2019. Wilson had also used a hidden camera in a clock to secretly film a woman undressing.
Clive Ruddle, who chaired the Teaching Regulation Agency hearing, said: "After an intelligence operation, the police became aware of your home address and the IP address of your phone connected with indecent photographs and images of children."
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