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Teacher guilty of whispering exam help to pupils
Miss Veronique Matchim was found guilty of unacceptable professional conduct for whispering prompts during a GCSE French oral exam in April 2024, a panel ruled.
- At Abbey Grange Church of England Academy in Leeds, Miss Veronique Matchim, an agency supply teacher, was found guilty of unacceptable professional conduct after admitting she whispered prompts during April 2024 GCSE French assessments.
- Audio recordings from the assessments were provided to the AQA exam board, which identified four instances where she whispered French words, the panel said this amounted to exam cheating.
- During the school's probe she twice denied whispering but later admitted prompts, and the panel found she had not planned to cheat while noting remorse; she also failed to inform Just Teachers Ltd promptly.
- The panel ruled prohibition would be disproportionate and published adverse findings; the TRA barred her from involvement in AQA examinations until after 2026 and required supervised involvement until after 2027.
- Observers highlighted that she accepted her behaviour `may bring the profession into disrepute`, while media accounts summarising the TRA panel findings described a teacher who whispered prompts during GCSE French speaking/oral exams.
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