Teacher ‘put a sock in pupil’s mouth’

♦ A primary school teacher accused of putting a sock in a pupil’s mouth as punishment for talking has been banned from the classroom.

Martin Myers, 47, was also found to have “whispered” the answers to SATS exams and asked students to “vote” on whether or not he should remain at the school. A disciplinary panel heard how the teacher had added annotations to the side of tests in a bid to help students at Ecton Village Primary School in Northampton.

He found himself in trouble when he allegedly took off his shoe and put his sock into the mouth of a pupil who had started talking during a reading lesson. The National College for Teaching and Leadership panel banned him indefinitely.