Noise-making: 'Pupils mouths taped shut by teacher'

Furious parents claimed art and Spanish teacher Priscilla Davo dished out the shock punishment because the 10 and eleven-year-olds in her class were noisy
A primary teacher who allegedly put sticky tape over the mouths of her pupils has been suspended.

Mum Stacey Bradbury, 28, claimed her son Thomas, 10, was one a number of pupils targeted.

She claimed: “Some of the boys ended up with quite a lot of Sellotape over their mouths.

"At the end of the lesson they were allowed to take it off but the teacher said this was what was going to happen every time they were noisy.

“My son had the little hairs on his upper lip pulled off by the tape when he took it off. Most people know how painful and horrible that is.
"There are so many other ways to discipline children.”

Thomas added: “Some people had a really bad rash and some girls had their lips bleeding.”

Children were sent home from Danesfield Church of England School in Williton, Somerset, with a letter from head Ian Bradbury confirming the suspension and a probe.

The letter said: “We take what has happened to be entirely wrong.”

Mr Bradbury added: “We take all allegations about the wellbeing of children very seriously.”

Teacher Catrin Williams has been suspended for six months pending an investigation