A teacher facing the sack for an alleged 18-month affair with a pupil “passed notes” with her, his boss has claimed.
David Bryant taught chemistry at Levenmouth Academy in Leven, Fife, where he’s claimed to have struck up a relationship with the girl, referred to in court papers as Pupil A.
Headteacher Ronnie Ross told a tribunal he discovered hidden notes passed between the pair following Bryant’s suspension in 2019.
He claims he found “trinkets and a soft toy” exchanged as gifts between the pair.
Giving evidence Ross said: “There were trinkets, a small soft toy and I saw some messages that were kept next to the items.”
Ross spoke of notes passed between the teacher and pupil.
He said: “The notes were just correspondence between the pupil and the member of staff that were private, nothing that was shocking, but the fact that there were little notes and Pupil A had told a teacher that when they got the gifts and when they were exchanged.
“There was love and kisses, no suggestion of sexual intercourse, it was more superficial things that were said. You thought, ‘My goodness, they shouldn’t have done that’.”
Bryant, 55, faces being struck off the teaching register in an ongoing hearing in front of the General Teaching Council for Scotland.
The hearing continues.
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