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17/05/2008, 12:29 AM Richard Joined on 08/01/2004 Posts 149 Pig Prank at school A school's Ofsted inspection almost turned into a pig's ear when students smuggled in a live piglet as a prank. The incident involved three teenaged pupils from Old Buckenham High School, near Attleborough, who decided to celebrate their 'last day at school' by letting the piglet loose in the playground, on Thursday . But the school took a dim view of the caper, and the young culprits are now the focus of an investigation involving the police and the RSPCA officials. Have teachers lost the sense of humour?    What did you do at last day of school? I'm guilty of removing school bell from outside headmasters office, and hanging it from the weather vane on the roof. Not many people know how I did it.        Live your Dream Ask me how?    Report

17/05/2008, 9:18 AM gardener Joined on 04/10/2007 Posts 1,171 Re: Pig Prank at school I agree Richard. No wonder the kids were celebrating leaving school if the head shows such a joyless po faced attitude to everything else that goes on in the establishment. As for involving the police and the RSPCA..yet another institution toeing the authoritarian interfering jobsworth line that this Labour Government has established instead of using a bit of common sense to placate and if necessary reprimand all parties concerned. As for involving those notorious non experts in animal welfare the RSPCA, well it was a piglet having a day out and a trot round a playground ...good grief they used to have catch the greased pig competitions at village fetes!.  We stamp on this sort of virtually harmless youthful prank when we should be worrying about the sullen aggression lurking in the hearts of the sort of kids convicted of murder yesterday. My last day at school was a bit of a wash out,  but there were those who polished a certain statue's extremities and I did hear of an incident involving weedkiller and a cricket wicket beloved by a certain headmaster.    Report

17/05/2008, 9:23 AM ROBERT Joined on 16/08/2003 NR Gt. Yarmouth Posts 3,542 Re: Pig Prank at school A one off joke should be treated as so, as long as nobody suffers as a result...... also the teachers should well expect this type of action may happen on the last day of school and take it in good spirit. Life at times is far too serious.......    Report

17/05/2008, 11:37 AM Castanea Joined on 25/04/2008 Posts 109 Re: Pig Prank at school I think they key word here is 'OFSTED' - I'd put money on this having been swept under the carpet had the school not been under inspection...    Report

17/05/2008, 11:40 AM Jill Joined on 15/08/2005 Norfolk Posts 1,976 Re: Pig Prank at school I have no problem with having a laugh on the last day of school. But it was not good to use a live animal, which might have been very frightened indeed, perhaps that was what they didnt like. There are better ways as you demonstrated, Robert.    Report

20/05/2008, 7:26 PM Alf Joined on 11/08/2006 Posts 72 Re: Pig Prank at school The school was being Ofstedded - if it is even a verb. This means that the matter had to be dealt with in the way in which it was. I suspect that had they not been in it wouldn't have been news at all.    Report

21/05/2008, 6:17 PM Amy Soyka Joined on 04/04/2008 Posts 181 Re: Pig Prank at school Rumor has it at Cromer High School years ago one of the students got hold of the Head of English's bike and tied it to the flagpole on the roof. If somebody did this today - no doubt they would get done for criminal activity. It is a shame to see what the UK is coming to. Punishments in schools nowdays are alot more commonplace than in the past - although they are more psychological than physical.    Report

22/05/2008, 4:45 AM Rupert Joined on 19/11/2007 Posts 613 Re: Pig Prank at school  Amy Soyka wrote: Rumor has it at Cromer High School years ago one of the students got hold of the Head of English's bike and tied it to the flagpole on the roof. If somebody did this today - no doubt they would get done for criminal activity... Hmmm ... When I was at school, some departing students put a teacher's mini on top of the gym roof.  (flat roof, about 20 ft above the ground, with a 2ft high parapet around it.) No prosecution, no 'hissy fit'. - It was treated as a harmless 'high spirited' prank.  It took a while for the staff to work out how to get it down ... It was fascinating watching them do so - But they could hardly admit that they'd been outwitted by a bunch of sixth formers. Rupert    Report

23/05/2008, 11:45 AM darkplaygirl Joined on 27/03/2008 Newtown Posts 69 Re: Pig Prank at school i agree, reminds me of when I left school somehow, the headteacher's car ended up on the football pitch, filled with cans and on it's side    Report

23/05/2008, 11:59 AM keith gerrard Joined on 16/04/2004 Posts 10,626 Re: Pig Prank at school Not the same thing at all. The car on its side was just vandalism, no doubt all the oil drained out and made an environmental mess for a astart. Turning a car on its side takes no inteligence whatsoever and neither does filling it with cans. Oh such a sad modern education system, do they actualy teach anything? Dream on keithgerrard@gerrard24.freeserve.co.uk    Report

24/05/2008, 2:27 AM Equitator Joined on 04/11/2003 Posts 1,111 Re: Pig Prank at school Judging by the lower case personal pronoun and the aberrant apostrophe - not a great deal. Equitator    Report

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