Headteacher gives Myleene Klass words of advice after birthday presents Twitter row

 
Reprimand: The head of Klass's daughter's school used a newsletter message about fundamental British values to criticise the former pop star (Picture: Rex Features)
Sebastian Mann10 February 2015

Myleene Klass has been publicly ticked off by the headteacher of her daughter's school after she revealed another parent's email asking for £10 towards presents for her daughter.

In a newsletter sent out to parents, the £5,000-a-term private school's head wrote: "As my granny would have said, if you can't tweet anything nice, don't tweet anything at all."

It comes after the radio presenter called fellow parents "bonkers" after sharing an email she had received from them asking for £10 to fund their daughters' requests for a kindle and a desk for their birthdays.

The former Hear'Say singer also posted her scathing reply, entitled "Let's put the fun back into Bdays", in which she joked her seven-year-old daughter Ava would like a "real, live unicorn" for her birthday and cash to pay for it could be donated by other parents at "www.getwhatyouregivenandendthismadness.com".

The posts went viral, made national headlines, and led to reports of parents confronting Klass at the school gates.

In her pointed note to parents on the subject of "fundamental British values" (FBV), the school's head said: "It was not my intention to use the [newsletter] this week as a soap box, but here it comes … how I wish I could focus on your daughters' education and not on responding to media trivia.

"How many times this week have I been asked to comment/act/intervene/reprimand/ … do something! Mutual respect and tolerance. FBV. We actively promote them – do you?

Good intentions: Klass said she hadn't meant embarrass the parents involved (Picture: Splash news)

"I needed to get that off my chest. Now, on with the week's round up of [school] news. No more parking on zig zags. No more blocking in the neighbours. No more unicorns. And as my granny would've said, if you can't tweet anything nice, don't tweet anything at all."

Writing in the Telegraph over the weekend, Klass said she wasn't sure whether her actions on social media made her "courageous or an idiot", but her intention had been to make a serious point.

The 36-year-old wrote: “My intention was to stop all these serious, money-focused exchanges and remind parents, all of us under pressure to do the very best for our children, of what birthdays should be about.”

She said had changed parents names and shared emails from about a year so it would not "embarrass" those involved.

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