Pupils left traumatised by feign propagandize shooting

Laura Pitel & ,}

Schoolchildren suffered be scared attacks and were left great after a role-play event in that one of their teachers was shot passed in the playground.

The children, elderly 10 to 13, were traumatised by the stunt, that was piece of a scholarship lesson, and were not told that it was a try for ten minutes.

The practice at Blackminster Middle School in Evesham, Worcestershire, began when pupils listened that there was a gun in the school. Five mins after the alarm bell sounded and some-more than 300 were sent outward and saw 3 teachers using opposite the field.

They saw a gunman in the area and listened what sounded similar to gunfire prior to seeing Mr Kent, a eremite preparation teacher, tumble to the ground. Colleagues appeared to try to cure him.

Parents claimed that the young kids were sent behind to their classrooms and called in to the public gymnasium ten mins after to see that Mr Kent was alive and uninjured. Some pronounced that their young kids were so jarred by the exercise on Tuesday afternoon that they were ill in the toilets, suffered panic attacks and were still fearful when they got home.

One parent, who has an 11-year-old daughter at the school, said: They thought their clergyman had been shot. And all this time you have kids great in fear. Its ten mins after that they told the young kids that it was all a joke. I think the positively disgusting.

Another primogenitor pronounced that the practice was quite unresponsive given the father of one of the pupils had died in a sharpened a integrate of years ago. Their wording, their timing, all was out of order, the primogenitor said.

Terry Holland, the head teacher, said: The role-play was piece of a scholarship lesson. The complaint with a small minority of the pupils was that there was a slight check in removing them in to the gymnasium to insist what had only happened. Most of them already knew it was a travesty but a integrate were dissapoint and we have given oral to them and their relatives and apologised. It was one of the some-more renouned teachers who played the victim. I dont think there would have been as most regard if it was one or dual of the others.

In a minute to parents, Mr Holland said: We right away feel that the time check was too prolonged and pupils should have been reassured instantly. Any role-play activities in the destiny will be formed on themes that are less argumentative and non-violent.