Yapton boy put into isolation at school for refusing to take off poppy armbands

Brandon Heryet, from Taylors Close, Yapton, said he had chosen to wear the Poppy Appeal bands in the week leading up to Armistice Day as a sign of respect for servicemen and women past and present.

However, the year-ten pupil at Ormiston Six Villages Academy, in Chichester, says he was told last Wednesday that he could not wear the charity wristbands because they were not allowed under school uniform rules.

After Brandon refused to take the bands off, he was taken out of lessons until Tuesday, the day he had previously decided he would stop wearing them.

For the full story, read this week’s Littlehampton Gazette, out Thursday, November 14.