Date of hearing: 6 and 7 January
Location: GTCS
Type of hearing/Application: Full Hearing

A Procedural Hearing is to be held to consider the following:

1. Between 1 September 2015 and 11 January 2016, whilst employed as a teacher at [School 1], a Secure Unit, and whilst subject to a Final Written Warning imposed by your employer on 27 March 2015 you did:
1. Inform the Scottish Qualification Authority (SQA) that pupils had completed assessments which would lead to a Unit award when you knew that the pupils had not completed the assessments at that date;
2. Attempt to conceal your false submission to the SQA by having pupils complete the assessment and thereafter present it as having been completed prior to your submission to SQA;
3. Pay money directly into pupils’ bank accounts without the knowledge of the Education Manager;
4. And in relation to your conduct at allegation 1(a) and (b) above you were dishonest in that you attempted to obtain Unit awards for pupils based on information that you knew to be inaccurate;

and in light of the above, it is alleged that your fitness to teach is impaired and you are unfit to teach, as a result of breaching Parts 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 and 1.6 of the General Teaching Council for Scotland’s Code of Professionalism and Conduct.

Members of the public and media are expected to give at least one working days’ notice to GTCS if they wish to attend a hearing in order to allow staffing arrangements to be put in place.

Link to media guidelines.

In relation to applications for privacy, media are entitled to make representations to the Panel if they so wish. Further information can be found in the Privacy and Anonymity Practice statement, which you can Read here.

Date of hearing: 8, 9, 10, 22, 29, 30 and 31 January
Location: GTCS
Type of hearing/Application: Conduct and Competence Full Hearing

A Procedural Hearing is to be held to consider the following:

1. On 25 June 2016, whilst employed by Glasgow City Council as a teacher at St Roch’s Primary School, you did:
1. Make inappropriate comments to and about your colleagues, in front of pupils; and
2. Push a door open causing it to strike a colleague.
3. Pay money directly into pupils’ bank accounts without the knowledge of the Education Manager;
2. 2. Between October 2015 and June 2016, whilst employed by Glasgow City Council as a teacher at St Roch’s Primary School, you did:
1. On 23 October 2015, leave pupils unsupervised within a classroom and put them at risk of harm and in so doing you did breach school policy;
2. On 17 June 2016, you shouted and spoke aggressively towards a colleague, [name redacted], in front of pupils; and
3. On 19 June 2016, you shouted and spoke aggressively towards a colleague, [name redacted], in front of pupils.

And in light of the above it is alleged that your fitness to teach is impaired, and you are unfit to teach, as a result of breaching Parts 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.6, 2.3, 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3 of the General Teaching Council for Scotland’s Code of Professionalism and Conduct.

Members of the public and media are expected to give at least one working days’ notice to GTCS if they wish to attend a hearing in order to allow staffing arrangements to be put in place.

Link to media guidelines.

In relation to applications for privacy, media are entitled to make representations to the Panel if they so wish. Further information can be found in the Privacy and Anonymity Practice statement, which you can Read here.

Date of hearing: 14 November 2019 and 17 January 2020
Location: GTCS
Type of hearing/Application: Procedural Hearing

A Procedural Hearing is to be held to consider the following application:

• An application by the Presenting Officer for the case to be cancelled.
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Members of the public and media are expected to give at least one working days’ notice to GTCS if they wish to attend a hearing in order to allow staffing arrangements to be put in place.

Members of the public and media are expected to give at least one working days’ notice to GTCS if they wish to attend a hearing in order to allow staffing arrangements to be put in place.

Link to media guidelines.

In relation to applications for privacy, media are entitled to make representations to the Panel if they so wish. Further information can be found in the Privacy and Anonymity Practice statement, which you can Read here.

Date of hearing: 3 and 4 December 2019 and 20 January 2020
Location: GTCS
Type of hearing/Application: Conduct Full Hearing

Between June 2011 and August 2017 whilst employed by Stirling Council as a registered teacher at Stirling High School you did:

1. In or around June 2014 use an inappropriate hand gesture in front of pupils;
2. On or around 21 December 2015:
1. Tell pupils how to tell if someone fancies them and, in this context, ask them to stare into your eyes to test their pupil dilation; and
2. Pour liquid from a bottle contained in your fridge which bore an alcoholic branding label and then drink this liquid in front of an S2 class;
3. On or around 30 August, 2017:
1. Make inappropriate contact with Pupil A by hugging her;
2. Make inappropriate comments to Pupil A by calling her ‘pretty’ and ‘attractive’;
3. Refer to a male pupil inappropriately by calling him a ‘lanky bastard’; and
4. Make inappropriate contact with Pupil A by private messenger on Facebook.

Members of the public and media are expected to give at least one working days’ notice to GTCS if they wish to attend a hearing in order to allow staffing arrangements to be put in place.

Members of the public and media are expected to give at least one working days’ notice to GTCS if they wish to attend a hearing in order to allow staffing arrangements to be put in place.

Link to media guidelines.

In relation to applications for privacy, media are entitled to make representations to the Panel if they so wish. Further information can be found in the Privacy and Anonymity Practice statement, which you can Read here.