Sheffield primary school teacher Liam O’Leary banned for life for grooming girl he met in chat room
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www.thestar.co.uk— A Sheffield teacher has been banned from the profession for life for grooming a teenage girl he met online. Liam O’Leary, aged 38, was working at Beck Primary School in Shiregreen in 2013 when he met the girl aged under 16, messaged her for weeks, and met with her for sexual activity, a teacher misconduct panel heard. It also heard that over a two-month period starting in 2013 he encouraged the girl to send dozens of indecent images of herself and exchanged 2,147 messages, some sexually...
www.thestar.co.uk—Sheffield primary schools: 13 city primary schools handing out the most suspensions revealed. Suspending children from school is something we rarely see from educators, especially at primary level. Teachers aim to keep kids in school, where they are safe, fed and learning. However, for a multitude of reasons, senior leadership can and do decide to temporarily suspend pupils from school. Suspensions and permanent exclusions data, published in a Gov.uk package in April 2024, includes figures revealing which Sheffield primary schools handed out the most suspensions in the 2021-22 academic...
www.thestar.co.uk—Sheffield Primary Schools: The 7 city primary schools to issue permanent exclusions to pupils. It is extremely rare for educators to decide that a pupil cannot return to their schools - it is the absolute last resort, when all other options have been exhausted. Children must be in education. It is a legal requirement and means if a child is subject to a permanent exclusion from one school then the local authority must arrange full-time education as soon as possible. They are so rare that in Sheffield only seven of the 153 primary schools within the local authority issued them in the...
www.thestar.co.uk—Sheffield retro: 19 amazing photos of Sheffield nursery, primary and middle schools in the 1970s. These photos take you back to the 1970s and nurseries, primary schools and middle schools in Sheffield at the time. Youngsters can be seen in the playground, at their desks and out and about in the community in these nostalgic images. One set of pupils are seen preparing for a visit by the Queen while another group are excited to welcome a Womble. This retro photo gallery also captures the school buildings in which thousands of children in the city spent their formative years.