A teaching assistant had urine ‘thrown all over her’ by a pupil.
The woman, who wished to remain anonymous, has reportedly been left “traumatised” by the incident at Ernest Cookson School on Bankfield Road in West Derby. The teaching assistant was employed at the school via a supply agency.
According to its website, Ernest Cookson is an all-boys special school for pupils with social, emotional and mental health difficulties.
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A family member of the teaching assistant has claimed they were left alone in a small, enclosed playground with two pupils with no way of opening any doors on school grounds when the incident occurred. They told the ECHO: “After she arrived and was assigned to a class she noticed some of the boys in the school were already out of control - they were constantly running in and out of their classrooms to go in the corridor and kick doors, scream, shout, headbutt the walls etc.
“She was asked to supervise two pupils for ‘a couple of minutes’ by a teacher but the teacher never returned. This meant she was locked outside with two out-of-control boys in a small, enclosed playground, on her own, for 45 minutes.
“The school hadn’t given her a key or a fob to open any doors so she could not get back inside the school building and was stuck in the small, enclosed playground on her own with the two pupils. The boys hit each other with frying pans and threw mud at each other.
“When she tried to intervene and stop them getting hurt they turned on her. One of the boys urinated into a kettle, poured it out into a bowl and threw it all over her. She tried to get away but her clothes were soaked in urine.”
The teaching assistant has not returned to work at the school.
It is understood that the issue of the teaching assistant being locked out of the school related to the school changing from a key fob to a lock system. This meant other staff were therefore not aware she was outside, leading to a delay in them getting to the teacher.
It is also understood that the teaching assistant has not made a formal complaint to the school regarding the incident.
When contacted by the ECHO about these claims, an Ernest Cookson School spokesperson said: “The welfare of pupils and staff is our top priority and the school has taken this matter extremely seriously. A full statement was taken from the teaching assistant detailing what had happened.
"The pupil apologised personally and we have taken further steps to deal with them and others involved, as well as reviewing our procedures. The teaching assistant was offered support by school staff on the day, and we later reached out to the supply agency to check on her welfare. We are sorry if the teaching assistant felt distressed.”
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