Headteacher banned after school pupils ‘shoplifted, drank and had sex’ on Swiss ski trip
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Justine Drury, principal of CP Riverside School in Nottingham, has been barred from the profession indefinitely. A school head in charge of a skiing trip has been barred from teaching after pupils allegedly stole knives, drank bottles of spirits and had sex.
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Justine Drury, 52, was principal at the CP Riverside School in Nottingham at the time of the trip to Switzerland in 2017. The school provides education for children aged 13 to 16 with behavioural or social issues. A Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) misconduct panel heard a female pupil had sex with other male students, allegedly including one after she was blackmailed, and another teenager on the trip had sex with a pupil in exchange for £30.
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Ms Drury, who left the school later in 2017, stated in her interview that one of the pupils disclosed to her on the first day “that she had sex with a boy” while intoxicated. She later told teachers that her sexual activity with a pupil had been filmed on a mobile phone by another student, who was using the recording to blackmail her into having sex with him.
A teacher claimed they took the phone from the pupil after asking if there was “anything on it that was going to get him into trouble” but could not access it. The panel heard the lack of supervision also led to other behaviour including pupils stealing from a shop near the hotel, which ended with them being reprimanded by the police.
