A FORMER music director at a private school in Wokingham was told he will likely never teach again after he was caught with more than 10,000 indecent images of children.

Gordon Waterson, who taught at £9,775-a-term Ludgrove School, was spared a jail term at Reading Crown Court earlier in April.

This came after the sentencing judge said he had already served a punishment in losing a career that ‘meant a lot’ to him.

A classroom ban from the Teaching Regulation Agency is now almost inevitable.

The authority hands out prohibition orders to former teachers guilty of misconduct in schools.

Here are the names of some other Berkshire teachers who have been the subject of a TRA hearing -- but not all of them were banned!

Oliver Glass

A teacher who engaged in sexual activity with a child on three occasions has been banned from classrooms for life.

Oliver Glass, formerly of Causeway Head Road, Sheffield, was the ex-head of Mathematics at a Reading school.

He resigned from the school in June 2019, three months before a child alleged that they had engaged in sexual activity with Glass.

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On the same date, Glass was arrested by Thames Valley Police. He was charged and in October 2020 he pleaded guilty to three counts of inciting sexual activity with a child.

He was sentenced to 22 months behind bars at Reading Crown Court in December 2020.

Glass was referred to the Teaching Regulation Agency and in February 2022, a panel agreed he should be banned from teaching.

Gunsel Akyol

A disgraced teacher from Reading has been banned indefinitely from the profession for engaging in sexual relationships with pupils.

Gunsel Akyol, 64, taught economics and business studies at Waingels College in Woodley from 1988 to 2016, when it emerged that he had developed an inappropriate relationship with a student.

Mr Akyol had also engaged in a similar relationship with another pupil years before.

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He admitted that he had formed an initial relationship with the first schoolgirl, known as 'Pupil A', from the date of her 16th birthday in 1991.

A later relationship with 16-year-old 'Pupil B' began in 1999.

He also continued this relationship and again lived in the same accommodation as her once she left the school.

A teacher misconduct panel found Mr Akyol to be guilty of unacceptable professional conduct.

Mark Wade

A teacher who sent flowers and an article on 'sugar daddies' to a former pupil after she broke of their illicit relationship has been banned from teaching.

Mark Bertram Wade worked at the Piggott School as head of maths and sixth form personal tutor from September 1994 until October 2015.

The pupil joined the Wargrave schools' sixth form in September 2012. At the end of the academic year she asked to move into his tutor group.

The two began exchanging emails through Wade's personal account as well as phoning and texting each other.

They kissed a number of times although he referred to her by a different name to stop him feeling uncomfortable.

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Wade and the pupil embarked on a sexual relationship in August 2014 when she was 19.

They had sex at his home, her house and another home of his in Cornwall where they holidayed together.

She called off the relationship in November 2014 after going to university.

He began buying her flowers, including leaving a bouquet at her home for her 20th Birthday and sending her emails asking to meet.

In July 2015 he sent her an article on 'sugar daddies', wealthy men who pamper their younger girlfriends.

She complained to the police about harassment in July 2015.

The 58-year-old was hauled before a professional standards board on August 23 this year and admitted having an inappropriate relationship and sexual relationship with the girl and accepting a police caution for harassment.

This means that Wade is prohibited from teaching indefinitely and cannot teach in any school, sixth form college, relevant youth accommodation or children's home in England.

Peter Watt

A teacher has been banned from every classroom in Britain after it emerged he kissed, hugged and bought alcohol for pupils while working at a Thatcham school.

Peter Watt, who taught at the Kennet School in Stoney Lane from 1995-2001, was struck off by the General Teaching Council's Professional Conduct Committee last week for having "physical and emotional contact" with his pupils.

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The committee said this included hugging and kissing them, often backstage after drama performances, and supplying them with alcohol, both at a pub and at parties in his own home - despite knowing many of the pupils were under age.

Watt admitted giving personal letters and tape cassettes to a female student he had "grown very fond of and found attractive", and the professional body found he had engaged in intimate conversations with other pupils both in and out of term time.

Watt was found guilty of unacceptable professional conduct and issued a Prohibition Order, permanently barring him from teaching.

And finally....

Alice Wetherall was not banned from the classroom, but she was hauled before a TRA panel last year. Here's why

A Slough headteacher who knowingly allowed a child-sex offender onto the site of her school will not be banned from teaching.

Alice Wetherell was deputy headteacher at Ryvers Primary School in Slough, when she allowed a man with nine counts of sexual offences against a child onto the school site.

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A teaching panel agreed Ms Wetherell showed “poor professional judgement” in allowing the man on-site and that her actions were “not forgivable or excusable”.

But the panel decided against banning her from teaching children again as the former headteacher was not considered to be an ongoing risk to the public.