GOVERNORS met yesterday to discuss a confidential auditors' report which criticises the way money from a school budget had been spent on a trip abroad and a three-day stay in a luxury hotel.
The report on Upperwood Primary School at Darfield reveals the school spent more than £1,500 in sending the headteacher and deputy head on an eight-night trip to Salzburg, Austria.
A further £4,000 went on staff training, which included a stay in the four star De Vere Hotel in Lincolnshire.
The auditors also found there had been ‘inappropriate’ spending from the ‘private school fund’ - money collected by the school for educational purposes.
About £500 went on a retirement party at a restaurant in Wickersley in July 2002; £200 on a Christmas party in Darfield in 2001; and £1,200 on clothing, including two men’s suits.
Other buys included sweatshirts and tracksuits for staff taking PE lessons, and two wetsuits.
The response from the school’s management in the report complained that some of the statements about the private school fund were ‘not accurate’.
Yesterday, governors were preparing for talks at an emergency meeting.
