AN ABUSIVE teacher who forced a pupil out of her way and failed to disclose her criminal past has been banned from teaching for three years.

A concerned parent raised the alarm after her son reported Vivienne Langham had used excess force to move him out of her path.

Bosses at Hampstead Norrey's Church of England School in Thatcham launched a probe and discovered Langham had also been convicted of affray.

She had failed to disclose that information, and the fact she had been slapped with a six-month conditional discharge, when she started the job.

Langham was ordered to appear before a teacher misconduct panel where she was barred from teaching for three years.

A report reads: "On January 5, 2017, Ms Langham commenced working at the school. Towards the end of January, a mother of a pupil raised a concern of Ms Langham physically moving her son out of the way.

"The school was subsequently made aware by the police that Ms Langham had been convicted of battery earlier in January 2017."

Once the allegations came to light, Langham resigned from her post as a teacher.

The report continues: "There is no evidence that she told the school of this conviction and Ms Langham states in her statement 'I subsequently failed to inform the school that I had received a six-month conditional discharge for assault'.

"Ms Langham was convicted of an offence that took place in October 2016. The panel also noted in the form she completed in December 2016 when applying for her role at the school, she was asked about any convictions and pending prosecutions, to which she answered 'no'."

Education chiefs ruled that Langham breached the teachers' code of conduct.

A further charge, that she had failed to disclose her conviction on her application form, was dropped.

Alan Meyrick, on behalf of the secretary of state for education, temporarily banned Langham from teaching.

He said in his report: "This means that Ms Vivienne Langham is prohibited from teaching indefinitely and cannot teach in any school, sixth form college, relevant youth accommodation or children’s home in England.

"She may apply for the prohibition order to be set aside, but not until 2021, three years from the date of this order at the earliest."