{"id":516126,"date":"2026-04-06T16:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T16:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/516126\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T16:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T16:35:09","slug":"ban-for-yeovil-teacher-who-told-pupils-about-drunken-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/516126\/","title":{"rendered":"Ban for Yeovil teacher who told pupils about drunken night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A teacher who told pupils about her private life, including relationships and drunken nights out, has been banned by a watchdog. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Natasha Blackmore, 36, who was head of design technology at Westfield Academy secondary in Yeovil, Somerset, shared inappropriate details about her social life, a Professional Conduct Panel of the Teaching Regulation Agency heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She showed pupils texts in which she had described another person in derogatory terms, joined group chats, and told them she had been smoking and drinking on a hen night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Blackmore admitted unacceptable professional conduct and\/or conduct that may bring the profession into disrepute, and failing to maintain professional boundaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teacher who told pupils about her private life, including relationships and drunken nights out, has been banned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-516126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}