A PRINCIPAL in charge of a ski trip where a student slept with three boys and another had sex for £30 has been banned from the classroom.
Justine Drury, 52, organized a getaway to Switzerland for a dozen students from CP Riverside School – a school that provides education for children aged 13 to 18 with behavioral or social problems – in 2017.
During the trip, one student – named only as Student A – had sex with two students before being “blackmailed” into sleeping with a third who recorded the previous encounter, the panel heard.
Another female student – Student B – was also said to have had sex for £30.
Problems on the trip also included one student being found with three knives in his room, others stealing from nearby shops and some students breaking into the hotel kitchen to steal alcohol.
Drury, who was headteacher at a school in Nottingham at the time and on skiing holidays, denied he had failed to take sufficient steps to reduce the risk of inappropriate behaviour.
However, she admitted to the investigation that on the first day, in a drunken state, student A revealed to her “that she had sex with a boy”.
The witness also claimed to have heard a conversation between two students on the same day that student A had sex with another boy in her room.
The same witness also said that on the second night he found a girl in the bed of one of the students.
Student A then told the witness that she had sex with three students, as was heard.
She also discovered on the third day that Student B had had sex with a student the night before “in exchange for £30”.
The panel said that despite Student A’s claim of “potential non-consensual sexual activity” on the first day of the trip, Drury failed to prevent further sexual activity.
The hearing was told that the skiing should have stopped after the first day – with police, parents, carers, school governors and the council informed.
Drury failed to confiscate students’ phones or investigate a young girl’s conversation that was recorded during sex with one of the students.
The disciplinary committee was also told that one or more students had a knife with them.
Three blades were taken out of one student’s room, but further searches of the room, as stated, were not carried out.
During the investigation, Dury accused the schoolgirl suspected of having the knives “likes to draw attention to herself.”
Drury also arranged for one student to share a room with an adult accompanying him on the field trip and allowed her students to visit a nightclub for a “juvenile disco.”
The panel found Drury guilty of failing to disclose serious incidents.
After returning from Switzerland, she only told commissioners that the trip had been “eventful.”
It was found that she did not act with integrity and did not protect her pupils.
Decision maker Sarah Buxcey said Drury would be banned from the profession indefinitely and could only apply to return as a teacher after five years.
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