Pupils excluded after knife find

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Four pupils at a junior school have been excluded after a knife was discovered in one of their bags.

Three boys have been excluded for seven days and a 10-year-old boy they allegedly threatened has been told to stay away for three days.

A vegetable knife was found in the bag of the 10-year-old who attends St Ann's Well Junior School, Nottingham.

In a letter to parents the head teacher said the safety of the pupils was the school's top priority.

The school said at no time was the knife brandished when it was taken into the school on Wednesday and no one was threatened with it.

Head teacher Jackie Flower said the school's investigations had revealed that the three boys who threatened the 10-year-old had themselves taken a knife into school the previous day but no one had been aware of it.

The children were instructed to tell their parents what happened when they got home.