UK - A school has been forced to apologise to parents after a teacher falsely told her class that Father Christmas was not real. The stand-in teacher at Hill View Primary School in Bournemouth, Dorset made the blunder while her class of 10 and 11-year-olds were making Christmas cards on Wednesday. The festive faux pas is said to have caused quite the scene as the Year Six pupils left the school quizzing their parents to see if what she said was true. The school later that day emailed a letter to parents 'apologising profusely' for the upset caused to the children by the Santa slur. One parent, who did not want to be named, said: 'Christmas is a stressful time of the year as it is, the last thing we need is the school ruining it by taking away the magic. It's really not on.”