An art teacher who allowed students under the age of 16 to take photos with sexual content for a project was expelled from class.
Emma Wright, 41, who taught at a Northamptonshire school, allowed her Year 11 students to take partially nude photos of themselves and others.
Images have been shown of children wearing only underwear and holding alcohol or using their hands to cover their breasts.
The Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) said it broke protection rules.
Ms Wright was expelled from school to TRA in 2018 after the head of the art and design department discovered the portfolio of student work.
She told the panel that while she introduced the students to an artist who makes “suggestive paintings,” she did not intend for her students to create similar paintings.
But the panel decided she would have seen the material collected by the students before her final artworks were produced.
The panel found that the images of the youths, some of whom were under 16 at the time the pictures were taken, posed a safety issue and as such were “highly inappropriate”.
The TRA concluded that Ms. Wright’s actions were premeditated and that she had committed a serious breach of professional teaching standards and failed to ensure the welfare of the students.
She is an experienced teacher who has been at the school since 2004 and “had a good history”.
The TRA said: “While the panel was satisfied that there was a low risk of recurrence, it did not find that Ms Wright had fully considered the implications for protection of allowing students to take photographs of themselves or others unclothed condition.”
She has been banned from teaching in England indefinitely and cannot seek a review of the ban until 2024.
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