A HEADTEACHER got drunk on a school trip before entering pupils’ bedrooms and making comments about her breasts.
Gillian Rew, 49, also told a schoolboy his body was “too sexy” during the trip to Lockerbie in September 2014.
And a General Teaching Council Scotland (GTCS) hearing was told that Mrs Rew remarked to one student that his chest “was better than her husband’s”.
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During the weekend away, she also pulled herself up from the floor by holding onto a pupil’s ankles and held crisps between her breasts.
Despite the revelations, she has not been struck off the teaching register but has instead been given a two-year Conditional Registration Order, which involves regular alcohol testing.
At a GTCS hearing staged last month, Mrs Rew admitted to drinking eight glasses of wine on the trip before having “improper contact” with students.
Mrs Rew, who was sacked from her £74,000-a-year post at Arbroath High School following the incident, had already failed in a bid to have the hearing heard in private.
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But her admission of guilt meant that details of the charges were not revealed in the hearing.
A document published by the GTCS yesterday reveals the extent of Mrs Rew’s behaviour but states that the case panel decided it would be unreasonable to declare her unfit to teach, given the personal difficulties she was having at the time.
Mrs Rew admitted that she was “mortified” by her behaviour and at the time was drinking too much, partly as a result of working 14-hour days.
She also said that she did not think any of her pupils “would have been particularly alarmed” by the events at Lockerbie Manor two years ago.
The hearing was told that Mrs Rew – now employed by teaching union EIS – had undergone therapy and alcohol counselling since the event.
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She added: “My days of leading a school are gone. The most I would hope would be to retain my teaching registration.”
The Conditional Registration Order means Mrs Rew can remain on the teaching register, but must comply to several conditions, including submitting samples, testing for alcohol in her blood, every six months.
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