City supply teacher given lifetime ban

A disgraced primary school supply teacher from Peterborough who was convicted of offences of violence against pupils has been banned from the country’s classrooms for life.

The ban was imposed following a teachers’ disciplinary hearing in Coventry.

The Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) panel heard that Andy Jummun (39) had been convicted by Cambridge Magistrates’ Court last year of four counts of assault by beating pupils.

Three of the convictions related to him throwing a pen lid at pupils from a short distance and the other involved him pulling the chair a pupil was sitting on away because the child was swinging on the front legs. As a result the pupil fell on the floor.

Mr Jummun was ordered to carry out 150 hours of unpaid community work and pay more £1,100 in costs.

The panel’s findings say that he had been found to be responsible for “repeated violent behaviour towards pupils in year five” at St Michael’s Church of England Primary School in Peterborough.

Imposing the ban on behalf of Education Secretary Damian Hinds, TRA chief executive Alan Meyrick said striking Mr Jummun off was both “proportionate and in the public interest.” Mr Jummun can challenge the ban in the High Court.