A erstwhile superior schoolhouse headteacher who described a pupil arsenic a 'fat slug' and branded different 'f***ing ugly' has escaped a prohibition from the classroom.
Nicola Brogan, who worked astatine Woodland Community Primary School, successful Heywood, Lancashire, besides nicknamed a teacher 'Captain Camp' successful notation to his sexuality and called a genitor who was Scottish a 'f***ing jock,' a teaching misconduct sheet found.
The experienced headteacher, who led the schoolhouse betwixt September 2011 and December 2019, created an 'uncomfortable and antagonistic moving environment' that near immoderate unit successful fear, they said.
Although the sheet recovered her blameworthy of unacceptable nonrecreational behaviour and bringing the assemblage into disrepute, they did not urge Mrs Brogan beryllium banned from teaching altogether.
They said she deserved 'considerable credit' for helping steer the 470-pupil schoolhouse retired of peculiar measures and to execute a 'good' standing with Ofsted. She had besides made a 'significant publication to the teaching profession,' had 'expressed regret' astir her behaviour and had an unblemished record, moving for 22 years without immoderate complaints, the Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) sheet found.
A three-day hearing, successful Coventry past month, was told that Mrs Brogan was appointed to crook astir the struggling schoolhouse successful September 2011.
Less than 4 years later, successful June 2015, Mrs Brogan told section paper, the Heywood Advertiser, that securing the 'good' standing from Ofsted had taken 4 years of 'hard work...dedication and blood, sweat and tears.'
But she was subsequently referred to the TRA successful November 2019, pursuing 2 anonymous complaints astir her behaviour.
Nicola Brogan, who worked astatine Woodland Community Primary School, successful Heywood, Lancashire, has avoided a schoolroom prohibition implicit her comments towards pupils
Woodland Community Primary School, successful Heywood, Lancashire, wherever Nicola Brogan worked
Mrs Brogan, who gave grounds successful idiosyncratic to the hearing, admitted making abusive and inappropriate comments astir pupils, teachers and parents successful a radical WhatsApp chat acceptable up for elder leaders astatine the school.
Other comments included calling a teaching adjunct a 'fat cow' and claiming different subordinate of staff, who was precocious for a meeting, wouldn't request an inhaler if she 'wasn't truthful fat.' She besides described 1 pupil arsenic a 'wimp' and said different 'annoys the f*** retired of me, helium has nary personality.'
The sheet besides recovered she inappropriately joked with a teacher astir whether they would person enactment with an Ofsted inspector successful instrumentality for an outstanding rating. She was besides inconsistent and moody successful her dealings with unit and shouted astatine them inappropriately successful her bureau connected astatine slightest 2 occasions.
The TRA study said: 'The sheet was satisfied that the behaviour of Mrs Brogan, which acrophobic abusive and inappropriate comments astir staff, pupils and a parent, was precise serious.
'There was a important value of grounds from unit which confirmed that this behaviour had a earnestly antagonistic interaction upon the moving situation of the schoolhouse and adversely affected however unit felt and behaved.
'The moving civilization astatine the schoolhouse astatine the worldly clip was astatine times antagonistic and hostile. Some pupils and immoderate unit members were intelligibly not ever treated with respect by Mrs Brogan.'
Although the sheet concluded that immoderate unit members had been near distressed by Mrs Brogan's behaviour, it did not effect successful 'any appreciable harm to pupils,' their study said.
She was besides cleared of respective different allegations, including making unit members cry, mimicking a Polish accent and threatening to ruin a subordinate of staff's career.
Ruling connected behalf of the Education Secretary, Sarah Buxcey agreed with the panel's proposal not to prohibition Mrs Brogan from the classroom, adding: 'A prohibition bid is not proportionate oregon successful the nationalist interest.'
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