Staff confiscate pupil's phone but it records them calling schoolchildren 'kn**head' and 'b***end'
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A recording of a staff conversation from a student's confiscated phone at a secondary school, appears to include derogatory terms such as 'kn**head', 'b***end' and 'silly b***h' being used to describe pupils. The headteacher, Alex Burnham, has issued a letter to parents addressing the incident which occurred in October.
He explained that the child's phone had captured a private conversation between "a small number of staff members" after it was confiscated, with an audio recording app thought to have been running when the device was taken. The Manchester Evening News received an audio clip, believed to be a copy of the original, which lasts three hours and 37 minutes. In the clip, one person seems to refer to a student as a 'silly b***h', while another asks if a pupil is a 'kn**head'.
Another voice can be heard describing a child as a 'b***end in class'. Mr Burnham's letter stated that the conversation included "negative comments about several students" and did not align with the values of the school - Newhouse Academy in Heywood, Greater Manchester.
He confirmed that the incident was investigated and 'appropriate disciplinary action' was taken, with apologies given to the students named in the clip. According to the M.E.N, the letter read: "As a school we believe that we should not only celebrate with you when there is positive news, but we are also open and transparent if there is more difficult information to share.".
