An art teacher has been sacked after letting pupils as young as 15 pose topless, make offensive gestures in uniform, smoke and pose in swimwear during a ‘highly inappropriate’ class.

Emma Wright, 41, has been banned from teaching indefinitely after allowing students younger than 16 at Huxlow Science College in Northamptonshire to take partially naked photos of themselves and others for a school art project.

The Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) ruled that the class had broken safeguarding rules and ordered Mrs Wright to be struck off.

She was reported to the TRA in 2018 after the portfolio of teenagers’ work was found by the school’s head of art and design.

Mrs Wright, an experienced teacher of good character, told the panel that she introduced the pupils to a new artist who created ‘suggestive pictures’. However, she insisted she told the students this did not mean they should create similar work.

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