Headteacher under fire after pupils 'scared stiff' by school kidnap stunt... staged as part of lesson in descriptive writing

The kidnapper wore a bright red wig and was brandishing what looked like a gun.
Stunned nine and ten-year-olds watched from their classroom window as, in a few terrifying seconds, he abducted the school caretaker, bundled him into a car and screeched off into the distance.

For a moment it looked as if a major crime had been committed before the eyes of dozens of little innocents.

Except that the ‘kidnapper’ was the headmaster, the weapon was a water tap, and the stunt – which the children were not told about in advance – was a bizarre lesson for pupils to write descriptively about afterwards.

Yesterday the bogus abduction at Wincheap Foundation Primary School in Canterbury was said to have rendered some children ‘scared stiff’.      More Read