Parents have staged a protest outside a Birmingham school with a gay teacher after claiming it was ‘over-promoting LGBT movements’.

Andrew Moffat MBE, assistant headteacher at Parkfield Community School in Saltley, Birmingham, has been criticised for piloting a programme called No Outsiders.

Run alongside sex and relationship education lessons, the scheme promotes LGBT equality and challenges homophobia in primary schools.

Fatima Shah protesting outside Parkfield Community School, Birmingham (Picture: BPM)

Books now being read by pupils at Parkfield Community School include Mommy, Mama and Me and King & King, both of which are stories about same-sex relationships and marriages.

But Mr Moffat, who is gay, has come under fire from some Muslim parents who believe homosexuality is a sin.

Outraged mum Fatima Shah has taken her 10-year-old daughter out of the school.

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She said: ‘It’s inappropriate, totally wrong. Children are being told it’s OK to be gay yet 98 per cent of children at this school are Muslim. It’s a Muslim community.

‘I’ve taken my daughter out and other parents have too. Enough is enough. Sex relationship education is being taught without our consent. We’ve not been informed about what’s being taught.

‘Mr Moffat is running what’s called CHIPS – challenging homophobia in primary schools – and it’s totally against Islamic beliefs. My child came home and told me am I OK to be a boy? It’s confusing children about sexuality.

‘I want my child to learn about English, maths and science. I’m keeping my daughter away from the school until something is done. I’ve been paying £20-an-hour tuition at home instead.’

Andrew Moffatt MBE is not backing down (Picture :BPM)

But while Ms Shah is against LGBT equality being taught at Parkfield, the 29-year-old insisted she believed that ‘gay people should be treated with mutual respect’.

Mr Moffat resigned from Chilwell Croft Academy in Newtown in 2014 after coming out during a school assembly, sparking a backlash from some parents.

The school teacher has since been at Parkfield Community School for four years.

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In 2016, the 740-pupil school was deemed outstanding across the board by Ofsted and a year later Mr Moffat was awarded an MBE for services to equality and diversity in education.

In a joint statement outlining concerns by parents, Mr Moffat and Hazel Pulley, CEO of Excelsior Multi Academy Trust, said Parkfield Community School ‘have no plans to change their curriculum and No Outsiders remains an integral part of the drive for excellence”.

They added: ‘The No Outsiders programme teaches children that everyone is welcome. It was created in 2014 by Andrew Moffat, assistant head at Parkfield Community School, and piloted at the school.

‘The aim was to find a way to teach children about the Equality Act 2010, developing an understanding of British values through an inclusive curriculum and school ethos.

Parkfield Community School in Saltley, Birmingham (Picture :BPM)

‘A key element of the No Outsiders ethos is engagement with parents from the start, in order to promote solid foundations of tolerance that are matched both in and outside the school gates.

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‘Ninety-eight per cent of the children at Parkfield practice the Islamic faith and initially this presented tension within some aspects of No Outsiders, specifically the acceptance of LGBT equality.

‘Through parent workshops where resources and discussions were shared in the early stages of the pilot, the school was able to move forward with the support of the parent community.’

The text of leaflets handed out by parents outside the school Brothers and sisters, is it OK for your children to be gay? Are you aware of the resource being used in literacy lessons promoting homosexuality? Did you know Mr Moffat left his last role because parents believed he had no right coming out to children? They wanted all the lessons containing LGBT to be removed from curriculum. Did you know that our children are now being taught the very same thing? Have you asked what your children are being taught? What they are reading? Please join us in our petition to have the No Outsider removed from the curriculum. Please help us make a difference to what children are being taught.