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Girl's scam that fooled the school

A TEENAGE girl found sneaking into a different school as easy as ABC when she donned her friend’s uniform and spent the day at lessons unnoticed.

Inventive Saffron Beesley, a Year 10 student at Dartford Grammar School for Girls, fooled teachers when she lent a friend her spare dark green skirt and jumper.

The impostor, believed to be called Ellen, spent a day with her new classmates before another pupil revealed she was a fraud.

A parent, whose daughter is a pupil at the school but did not want to be named, said: “I heard that the girl was questioned for being insolent during a Spanish lesson.

“The teacher then asked her where her attendance book was and the girl said she had lost it. I believe the teacher just issued her with another one.”

It is thought that Ellen is enrolled at Dartford West Technology College in Heath Lane, which is just a 10-minute walk from the all-girls Shepherds Lane site. It is thought she is also a Year 10 pupil.

Head teacher Jane Wheatley said: “It is unfortunate that a student was able to spend a day at school without being identified.”

Mrs Wheatley said the girl was introduced to the class as a new pupil at the school.

She added: “Due to the security arrangements at the school, once she was in, she could not get out until the end of the day. I am disappointed that students in the class did not raise the matter.”

Mrs Wheatley said two of the pupils involved in the farce had been excluded for two days.

Saffron’s father, Thomas Beesley, of Patterson Court, Dartford, said: “I do not wish to comment about it.”

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