Girl, 11, fights for life after six-floor fall inside school

12 April 2012

A young girl is fighting for her life after falling six floors down a stairwell at her school.

Terrified pupils are thought to have watched as the girl, 11, fell over the banister of a stairwell at the Raine's Foundation school in Bethnal Green on to her head.

Two years ago an Ofsted report criticised the quality of the school's buildings.

The year-seven pupil is being treated at the Royal London hospital in Whitechapel. Her fellow students are being offered counselling and an investigation has been launched.

A spokeswoman for Tower Hamlets council said all pupils and staff are being offered "support" to help them deal with the incident.

Police said the incident was not being treated as suspicious.

In 2008 Ofsted inspectors said: "The school's curriculum, which is satisfactory overall, is hindered by the restriction placed on it by buildings which are not always fit for purpose."

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