Colleagues discovered Lyndi Corston, who worked as a supply teacher at Rye Community Primary School from November 2022, had set up an OnlyFans channel.
A teacher misconduct hearing heard the account was discovered in September 2024 when a colleague saw a push notification from the adult site on Ms Corston’s phone.
The Teacher Regulation Agency hearing heard Ms Corston accepted she did have an account on the site and it involved “nudity but not sexual acts” and that it was not in her personal name.
The 61-year-old was asked to close the account and to sign an enhanced code of conduct, which she did.
But on January 6, 2025, her employer Engage Education was notified that Ms Corston had been identified on a pornographic website engaging in sexual activity and an investigation was launched.
Ms Corston accepted the allegations that between January 2023 and January 2025, she “engaged in making a sexually explicit video or videos, which appeared on the internet” which included a video involving sexual intercourse appearing on one or more pornographic websites, under the description “granny schoolteacher”.
The hearing was told Ms Corston made full admissions and apologised for her actions, recognising the seriousness of the matter and taking “responsibility for her conduct and expressing regret”.
Ms Corston told the panel that she was not aware that the video would be widely accessible, and she thought it would be behind a private paywall. But the panel noted in its findings she had “nonetheless fully consented to participate and no limitations were placed on the use to which the video could be put”.
In its deliberations, the teaching panel said: “While conduct outside of the education setting, this was conduct that linked to the way she fulfilled her teaching role and could, potentially, have led to pupils being exposed to, or influenced by, the behaviour in a harmful way.
“The panel could not exclude the possibility that, had these matters become widely known within the school community, older pupils at the school could have become aware of Ms Corston’s actions.”
In mitigation, the panel considered that this was the “only known issue in an otherwise unblemished career” and that her actions did not happen while teaching and children were not directly impacted.
The Secretary of State for Education accepted the panel’s findings and recommendation for a prohibition order.
This means that Ms Corston is banned from teaching indefinitely and cannot teach in any school, sixth form college, relevant youth accommodation or children’s home in England.
She may apply for the prohibition order to be reviewed in two years’ time.
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