TV teacher's sex shame with pupil from school on Shropshire border
A teacher who appeared on the award-winning TV show Educating Yorkshire has been barred from teaching after having sex with two ex-pupils from a school on the Shropshire border.
Neil Giffin, 35, head of humanities at Thornhill Community Academy, near Dewsbury, slept with ex- pupils from his old school in Malpas.
Mr Giffin admitted relationships with former pupils from Bishop Heber High School, just over the Shropshire border in Cheshire, between 2007 and 2008.
He has been banned indefinitely after being brought before a disciplnary hearing of the National College for Teaching and Leadership.
He taught at the school in Malpas, near Whitchurch, between 2003 and 2012.
From 2012, he was employed at Thornhill until his resignation on April 14 last year. He was suspended by the academy on in January 2014.
He told one former Bishop Heber pupil on Facebook – where he used pseudonyms including Guy Andre and Chelsea Smith – that he was jealous of her because she "looked good in tights" and he wanted to wear them.
The panel found he slept with Pupil D when she was over the age of 18, starting a relationship with her following the Year 13 summer ball when she finished at Bishop Heber.
During an interview for a Thornhill Academy investigation into his conduct, he said the relationship had lasted "about six months".
The panel found Mr Giffin also slept with Pupil E, but did not prove the relationship inappropriate because there was no evidence that the girl had been at Bishop Heber at the time Mr Giffin was teaching there.
Mr Giffin told the panel he met the girl on a night out in Chester after she had left.
After he started at Thornhill Academy, Mr Giffin began messaging former pupils from Bishop Heber.
He sent messages to Pupils A, B and C over Facebook using the aliases Guy Andre, Chelsea Smith, Frank Shepard and Alan Shepard.
He told Pupil A, who the panel described as "a vulnerable 17-year-old", that he was in a relationship and asked her what pupils thought of cross-dressing.
The award-winning Channel 4 TV documentary Educating Yorkshire aired between September and December 2013 and followed the lives of teachers and pupils at the school.
