For the latest Rochdale news sign up to the MyRochdale newsletter here A school has launched an investigation after an audio recording of a pupil being reprimanded for protesting about the situation in Gaza was circulated on social media.
Leaders at Oulder Hill Community School in Rochdale have appealed for calm saying they 'recognise the strength of feeling' the incident has caused.
In the recording a boy, thought to be a Year 7 pupil, is rebuked by two members of staff for apparently wearing a face-mask in school with a slogan, understood to be 'Free Palestine', on it.
The school say the incident has caused 'an amount of unrest amongst parents and in the wider community' after being widely shared on Facebook and Twitter.
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