Female pupils have accused a Catholic school of promoting 'rape culture' after a girl was allegedly told not to wear 'provocative' shorts to PE.

Pupils at St Ninians in Giffnock, East Renfrewshire, claim a teacher asked a girl: 'Do you want the boys looking at you like that?' when she turned up in the wrong sportswear.

The teacher also allegedly accused the student of 'provoking' the male students.

Angry youngsters have now taken to social media to brand their own school 'ridiculous' and 'shocking' and to accuse staff of making girls self-conscious about their bodies.

Female pupils have accused a Catholic school of promoting 'rape culture' after a girl was allegedly told not to wear 'provocative' shorts. Since the row erupted, hundreds of pupils have shared images of a poster (pictured) asking teachers to 'stop sexualising young girls'

One message even suggested the school was promoting 'rape culture'.

But a spokesman for the school denies the incident took place and that the teacher merely reminded the pupil to turn up in the regulation attire.

Since the row erupted, hundreds of pupils have shared images of a poster asking teachers to 'stop sexualising young girls'.

It reads: '"Your shorts are too short". Since when is it a female's responsibility to make sure boys can concentrate on their school work.

Scottish Youth Parliament (MSYP) member Sorcha Kennedy (pictured) posted a series of outraged tweets after hearing about the alleged incident

'I am a young lady, if you're sexualising me, you're the problem. Stop perpetrating rape culture and oppressive objectification.'

Scottish Youth Parliament (MSYP) member Sorcha Kennedy posted a series of outraged tweets after hearing about the alleged incident.

The 18-year-old wrote: 'St Ninians can be such a joke. Excluding 4th year girls from PE for wearing shorts and telling them they have no standards? So ridic (sic)'.

'The female teachers said to them "do you want the boys looking at you like that?" And they're "provoking the boys".'

She added: 'Stopping girls from taking part in PE cause they have shorts on is teaching them that a boy's education is more important than theirs.

'It's so twisted as well cause it's not as if any of the boys were actual like "sorry your legs are distracting me", it's all the teachers.

Stop sexualising 4th years and let them get on with taking part in PE.'

One female pupil at St Ninian's tweeted: 'Really enjoyed being told to change out of the same pair of shorts that one of the PE teachers were wearing not that long ago.'

Another wrote: 'Cannot believe girls in my year were told not to wear shorts to PE because it would 'distract all the boys', absolutely f****** ridiculous.

'Maybe teach boys not to be f****** pervs instead of encouraging young girls to feel self conscious about their bodies. It's so so shocking.

'It was genuinely a bunch of 3rd and 4th years they said it to, like actual wee girls. Too far.'

This snippet from the school's website shows the uniform that pupils should wear during PE lessons

The 18-year-old wrote: 'St Ninians can be such a joke. Excluding 4th year girls from PE for wearing shorts and telling them they have no standards? So ridic' (sic)

On St Ninian's school website, the 3rd and 4th year uniform guidelines state that pupils are allowed to wear dark-coloured shorts for PE.

The guidelines read: 'Sky blue polo shirt, black or navy shorts/tracksuit trousers, training shoes which have built in support.

'Absolutely no football or designer tops, shorts or tracksuit trousers.'

A spokesman for East Renfrewshire Council denied that any comments about the shorts being 'provocative' had been made.

Angry youngsters have now taken to social media to brand their own school 'ridiculous' and 'shocking' and to accuse staff of making girls self-conscious about their bodies

A spokesman for the school (pictured) denies the incident took place and that the teacher merely reminded the pupil to turn up in the regulation attire

She said: 'Gym shorts are part of the school's policy for girls and boys and as such no one has been told not to wear them.

'One pupil was recently asked to ensure that they wear the regulation school PE kit but at no time has anyone been excluded from gym for wearing shorts.'

She added: 'At no time was a pupil advised that wearing shorts was provocative in any way.