A female chemistry teacher has been banned from the classroom for life after bombarding a schoolboy with thousands of sexually explicit texts, the Daily Mail reports.

Victoria Ayris, 30, used the social network WhatsApp to send photographs and intimate details of her life to the 15-year-old boy after they exchanged mobile numbers.

After the headteacher became suspicious, the teacher sent the boy a panic-stricken text begging him to delete everything, pleading: ‘Don’t ask why, just do it.’

Miss Ayris resigned from Castlebrook High School in Unsworth, Greater Manchester last year and has now received a life ban from the National College for Teaching and Leadership.

A professional conduct panel heard the ‘outstanding’ teacher sent 2,000 messages to the pupil over nine months in 2012.

Police later concluded that no offence had been committed, but the panel said the incident – which became ‘the subject of rumour and gossip’ among pupils and staff’ – amounted to serious misconduct.

Miss Ayris, of Accrington, Lancashire, apologised for her actions.

 They would exchange scores of messages each day which included ‘sexual and graphic’ content as well as photographs of herself, although these were not sexual in nature, the panel was told.

Over the months, their relationship became ‘the subject of rumour and gossip amongst other pupils and staff at the school,’ its report found.

Eventually another pupil informed headteacher Anthony Roberts about the texts, and in November he ordered her to stop contacting him, but she lied that she didn’t have his number, the report said.

However later that day she sent the boy a message reading: ‘Delete my phone number and all messages including WhatsApp — don’t ask why just do it — your mum will want to see your phone when you get home.’