Trojan horse school encouraged students to be informants, a tribunal has heard

A school linked to the so-called Trojan Horse plot had a ‘morality squad’ of prefects who were encouraged to spy on other pupils, a tribunal has heard.

A former teacher at Park View Academy in Alum Rock, Birmingham alleged prefects at the school would tip-off senior teachers about their fellow students - who would then be sent to an ’isolation unit’ for the day.

Muslim girls were also told that if they refused sex with their husbands they would be ‘smited’ and confined to an eternity in hell.

Whilst boys being taught sex education classes separately from girls taking were deliberately not shown how to put on condoms and directed to only have sex in the context of marriage.

The claims were made by a whistleblower during the professional misconduct hearing of Akeel Ahmed and Inamulhaq Anwar.

Both teachers are appearing before the National College for Teaching and Leadership to answer charges about how they had allegedly tried to enforce hardline islamic teaching onto the school agenda.

Anwar, who also served as a governor at Nansen Primary School, faces the additional charge of trying to influence the curriculum of the primary school.

The panel heard how even though the vast majority of the student body at Park View and Nansen were of the Muslim faith, they were ordinary state schools and academies that had to adhere to current education legislation.

Giving evidence, the former teacher, who has been granted anonymity by the panel, said some of the older pupils at Park View were made prefects and became known as the “morality squad.”

She claimed part of their duties were to “gather information” on what pupils were up to and if they discovered any were in a relationship they reported it to the leadership board. The boy and girl would then spend a day in the “isolation unit”.

She said the pupils’ parents were then informed of the relationship.

The teacher also made allegations about a strict Islamic policy on sex education.

She claims both men were handpicked by the assistant head on to deliver these lessons to the boys even though she was supposed to have jurisdiction.

“I am sure they were chosen on the basis of their strong Islamic beliefs,” she said.

Staff conducting the lessons were not allowed to tell the boys to use condoms for safe sex, boys and girls had to be taught separately, and the pupils were taught that sex could only take place within marriage.

She also became aware of a handout which had allegedly been given to boys during their sex lessons and left her “absolutely horrified”.

She said she believed Ahmed and Anwar had used the handouts during their lessons and this had resulted in boys going around the school saying to girls “you can’t say no to us.”

Other members of staff reported the matter to the head teacher who called a special assembly for all boy pupils and told them the contents of the handout were wrong and that what it was encouraging was rape, she said.

But Witness A said no disciplinary action was taken against the men believed to be responsible.

Park View has now been renamed Rockwood Academy and was one of five placed in special measures last April following the Trojan Horse scandal.

Both teachers deny misconduct. The hearing continues.