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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Richard Adams Education editor

School in ‘cat pupil’ controversy given Ofsted all-clear after snap inspection

Cards showing cartoons of different naked young people.
Sex education material at a school. Rye College was praised for its handling of sex and relationship education. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian

Ofsted has given the school at the centre of the “cat pupil” allegations a clean bill of health, with inspectors praising its “culture of kindness” as well as its handling of relationship and sex education.

Ofsted inspected Rye College in East Sussex after a complaint by Kemi Badenoch, the minister for women and equalities. There had been media coverage of a video of pupils arguing with a teacher over gender and identity, with one pupil appearing to claim that a student identified as a cat.

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