The incidents are revealed in a new survey showing that 43 per cent of school staff have had to deal with physical violence from a pupil in the last 12 months.
The research, by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), reveals that those who have faced violence report being pushed or shoved (77 per cent), kicked (52 per cent), punched (37 per cent), or having things thrown at them (50 per cent).
The survey involved 1,250 staff in UK state schools, and 45 per cent of them said that they believed behaviour in classrooms had gotten worse over the last two years.
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