A maths teacher who lied to pupils , saying she had been shot in a war zone and suffered serious injuries , has been banned from the classroom. Alexandra Slay, who worked at Epsom and Ewell High School in Surrey from December 2016 until she resigned in November 2023, told pupils she was in the Australian army, and on one occasion, texted one student pretending to be another soldier and claiming she had been severely wounded. After she resigned, a disciplinary hearing took place following concerns about her communications with pupils, and she was then referred to the Teaching Regulation Agency, which held a professional conduct panel . She was found to have sent thousands of emails to pupils between 2020 and 2023 and gave out her phone number. One email read: “I am actually going to do this – even though it is slightly different. I am going to give you my digits – you can get it from retriever.…