Gillian Hardman was ‘dishonest’ while working at Inscape House School in Cheadle, Greater Manchester (Picture: Google)

A teacher has been banned from the classroom indefinitely after she tried to pass off a piece of her own work as a pupil’s GCSE.

Gillian Hardman, 40, admitted that a sample piece of writing she had completed was included in Pupil A’s geography submission but insisted it was a mistake.

Nevertheless, a Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) panel found Ms Hardman had been dishonest about her actions while working at Inscape House School in Cheadle, Greater Manchester.

Chair Marc Cavey said: ‘Ms Hardman stated that, on June 17, 2021, she created Word documents and had copied and pasted the work that had been completed earlier by Pupil A from Microsoft Teams.

‘Further, that in the process of copying and pasting, she had erroneously included the exemplar document that she herself had produced.

‘The panel did not accept that Ms Hardman had copied and pasted the earlier work of Pupil A from Microsoft Teams as a likely explanation.

‘Witness B and Witness C stated that they were granted access to both Ms Hardman and Pupil A’s Microsoft Teams accounts and that there was no evidence of this work on either account.