A boy, 15, has been charged with wounding with intent after a teacher was stabbed at a Tewkesbury school
Anxious parents gathered outside the school throughout day after reports of a stabbing emerged.A spokesperson for Tewkesbury Academy at the time said: "Shortly before 9am today, staff were alerted to a serious incident which left a male member of staff in need of hospital treatment."School leaders immediately contacted police and placed the site into lockdown in line with our robust safeguarding procedures.
"No decision has yet been made on when the school will reopen, but we will be drawing up plans to support our students and staff in the wake of this incident. Parents and carers of pupils at the school were advised to go to Dobbies Garden Centre on Diamond Road to get assistance from police. A spokesperson for the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust said: "We were called at 09:08hrs to an incident in Tewkesbury on Monday 10 July. We sent three double-crewed land ambulances and two operations officers. We conveyed one patient by land to Gloucester Royal Hospital.
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