Children at schools in Kent could be failing to achieve their full potential because of boring teachers.

This week Ofsted’s chief inspector Christine Gilbert said she wants to launch a crackdown on dull lessons because she believes poor performance and bad behaviour are down to a lack of stimulation in the classroom.

Ofsted inspectors will be told to give more finely tuned advice to struggling schools on what is going wrong in their lessons and why pupils are not paying attention.

The inspectorate's latest annual report warned of "pedestrian" teaching in primary schools. It said pupils in secondary schools were too often set tasks that are not demanding enough of them.

Gilbert said: “People divorce teaching from behaviour. I think they are really linked and students behave much better if the teaching is good, they are engaged in what they are doing and it's appropriate to them.

“Then they've not got lost five minutes into the lessons and therefore started mucking around.”

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Kent teacher Kerry Scargill won the Teaching Award for Enterprise in the South East last year for her lessons at Byron Primary School in Gillingham.

She said: “There should always be an element of surprise in lessons so pupils don’t feel bogged down.

“I asked my class what they think makes a good teacher and they said: the teacher enjoying the subject, work being cross-curricular so they work on lots of different subjects at once and the teachers being happy. I have to agree with them.”