A 'headteacher from hell' is punishing badly-behaved school pupils with weekend detentions in an attempt to curb classroom disorder. Alun Ebenezer hopes the threat of being detained for two hours ...

Head teacher Alun Ebenezer is no stranger to headlines about his hard-line approach to discipline. Dubbed by one newspaper as the "head from hell", the latest controversy has focused on his ...

The sight of a parent standing their ground in a school reception – shouting, threatening, filming with their phone, refusing ...

Pupils can be given detention if they collect bad behaviour marks, and acting head teacher Alun Ebenezer said the Saturday sanction was needed where other punishment, including being held after ...

Alun Ebenezer, head at Caldicot School in Monmouthshire, Wales, has launched a number of measures to tackle behavioural issues and says teachers are showing "zero-tolerance towards defiance".

Headteacher at Caldicot School Alun Ebenezer explained the school has decided to bring in weekend detentions because other forms of discipline at the school to deal with bad behaviour hadn't been ...

Alun Ebenezer was appointed acting headteacher of Caldicot School in June last year. The school was placed under the second highest level of monitoring by education inspectors Estyn at the end of 2024 ...

It comes after Caldicot School's headteacher Alun Ebenezer publicly cited a need for firmer discipline in Wales, criticising what he sees as a tendency to avoid real issues by "hiding behind words ...

While some young people have “genuine problems”, Ebenezer suspects plenty don’t. The problem, he says, is the way “we now hide behind labels”. The school has a medical room and a ...