Teacher charged with attempted murder of pupil

A 49-year-old science teacher at a school in Nottinghamshire was charged yesterday with the attempted murder of a teenage pupil.

Peter Harvey will appear at Mansfield Magistrates Court today, Nottinghamshire Police said.

Jack Waterhouse, 14, was taken to hospital with serious head injuries after an incident in a classroom at All Saints' Roman Catholic School in Mansfield on Wednesday morning.

He is now in a serious but stable condition in hospital.

Detective Superintendent Adrian Pearson said the incident was out of character for the school.

"It's a school where people send their children from a wide catchment area. There have been no similar incidents before," he said.

On its website, the school said it had been a Performing Arts College since 2002 and had been described as "rapidly improving" in a 2009 Ofsted inspection.

"All Saints' School is a lively, Catholic comprehensive school with a very special, warm ethos which is recognised by all who visit," the head teacher said on the website.