A ten (10) year old pupil from Our Lady and St Philomena’s Catholic Primary in Fazakerley, Liverpool have been asked to write about fingering, fondle among others as homework.
Her mother, Annette Farrington, 27, said she was “mortified” and “disgusted” after her young daughter was sent “inappropriately sexual” homework from school.
Ms Farrington was left “mortified” and “disgusted” after her ten-year-old daughter was sent homework which included a suggestion that she write about “fingering”.
Annette Farrington, 27, slammed the teacher who sent out the “inappropriately sexual” creative writing prompts in a worksheet as school authorities urged others to check “third-party” material.
She said the homework had been sent out to her daughter at Our Lady and St Philomena’s Catholic Primary in Fazakerley, Liverpool just before half term.
Annette told the Liverpool Echo: “She got the homework just before half term but because there was so much we had some left over so we were doing it yesterday.
The creative writing prompts under “How do I feel?” included, “He was fingering”, “When I ran my hand along it, I…”, “She fondled”, “I stroked”, and “She felt his”.
“She was doing work on the Holocaust, and I think it had got mixed up with that.
“When I was looking at it I thought that doesn’t even make sense, why it would be there? But after speaking to the school they said it was part of an English lesson giving examples to help kids make their own story.”
One of the English worksheets for her daughter included a list of short sentence prompts for describing how somebody may feel.
The examples listed under the header “How do I feel?” included, “He was fingering”, “When I ran my hand along it, I…”, “She fondled”, “I stroked”, and “She felt his”.
Annette said: “I just said to her we won’t do that one today, saying I was confused with it.
“I was mortified because at first I thought am I looking at wrong, but I asked a few other people’s opinions and I was stunned by it.
“It made me feel a bit disgusted to be honest, because whoever actually provided that work they must have known what they were doing.
“It’s strange, surely no one can overlook that. No one could see what’s written on that paper and think that’s fine.
A Liverpool City Council statement said: “This resource was included in a paper pack for offline home learning that was sent to a very small number of families in January.
“It had been sourced online by the teacher as part of a set of creative writing prompts and was used to supplement the other work provided.
“The material had not been recommended or provided by the council or School Improvement Liverpool.
“All other families who received this pack have been contacted by the school and asked to remove the worksheet.
“All schools in the city have also been advised to double check any third-party resources and we have alerted the online provider to the issue”.
