A troubled Kent school has closed today as teachers strike over “unacceptable” pupil behaviour including threats of sexual violence against female staff, gang fights and youngsters throwing chairs and tables.
National Education Union teachers at Oasis Academy Isle of Sheppey want leaders to commit to a “zero tolerance” approach to behaviour, with “fixed exclusion tariffs” of 10 days for any pupil who assaults, or threatens to assault, staff.
Pupils are now learning at home after the school, based on two sites, had to close.
Oasis Community Learning announced earlier this year it would give up control of the school after a damning ‘inadequate’ Ofsted report found more than half of pupils did not attend regularly.
