PE teacher, 44, who flashed breasts at school, sat in students lap banned from classrooms

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A PE teacher from Norfolk has been struck off after getting drunk and flashing her breasts in a photograph with pupils at a school prom.

Katherine Lake, 44, faced complaints over inappropriate behaviour with pupils at a Year 11 prom at Reepham High School in Norfolk in June 2019.


A teachers' disciplinary panel heard she had drunk eight glasses of wine before attempting to sit on one student's lap, smoked a cigarette with another, then exposed her breasts while posing with five pupils in a photo booth.

Mother-of-one Lake is married and was head of PE at the school near Norwich from January 2008 until she was sacked in September 2019.

She admitted her actions were unacceptable professional conduct but said she could not recall the events as she was under the influence of alcohol.

The Teaching Regulation Agency panel, which heard the case on October 26 of this year, recommended she should be struck off.

However, she may be able to go back into the classroom if she can convince another panel that she is fit to return to teaching after two years.

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