CAVERSHAM PRIMARY BANS GLITTER AFTER INCIDENT BOARD CHAIR DESCRIBES AS "BIBLICAL"

Caversham Primary has issued a school-wide ban on glitter following what board chair Annette Moorhouse called, in a letter to parents, "a biblical incident" during a Year 2 art lesson.

The incident, which staff have declined to describe in detail, involved one 1kg craft tub, two overturned trays, and a ducted heating system that the caretaker had switched on minutes earlier. Glitter has since been recovered from the staffroom kettle, the principal's car, and a child who hadn't been at school that day.

Parent Kirsty Lennox, collecting her daughter at the gate, said the ban was "probably for the best, although a wee bit dramatic". "Olive came home looking like a disco ball for a fortnight. I've hoovered the Hilux twice and it's still glittery. My flat white at Mister Mason this morning had a fleck in it, I swear to god."

The ban extends to glitter glue, glitter pens, glitter card, and "any craft item containing reflective particulate", per the newsletter. One Room 4 parent, who asked not to be named because she's on the PTA, said the wording was "a bit much" and that the deputy principal had been "weird about sequins" ever since.

Board chair Moorhouse, asked to clarify what made the incident biblical specifically, said only that "those who were there will understand" and that the carpet would be replaced "in the next budget cycle, or the one after".

The Year 2 teacher is reportedly still finding glitter in her hair. She has been off since Tuesday.