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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Neil Shaw & Ellie Kemp

Headteacher killed herself while waiting for a negative Ofsted report

The family of a headteacher who killed herself while waiting for an Ofsted report said she had experienced 'the worst day of her life' when inspectors reviewed the school.

Ruth Perry, 53, was the headteacher at Caversham Primary School in Reading and took her own life in January after being told the school was being downgraded from Outstanding to Inadequate. Her sister, Julia Waters, said she was 'an absolute shadow of herself' following the inspection.

She told BBC South that inspectors said a boy doing a flossing dance move, from the video game Fortnite, was evidence of the sexualisation of children at the school. She also said Ms Perry had experienced the “worst day of her life” after inspectors reviewed the school on November 15 and 16 last year.

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