'Flirty' ex-teacher accused of having sex with pupil 'asked him to call her Miss'

'Flirty' ex-teacher accused of having sex with pupil 'asked him to call her Miss' Bronwen James, 30, from Chippenham, denies having sex with a 16-year-old pupil while she was employed at Bitterne Park School in Southampton A "flirty" former PE teacher who had sex with a 16-year-old pupil asked him to call her "Miss" when they were together, a court has heard. Bronwen James, 30, from Chippenham, Wiltshire, is on trial at Winchester Crown Court facing four charges of sexual activity with the pupil, alleged to have taken place while she was employed at Bitterne Park School in Southampton, Hampshire. Edward Culver, prosecuting, said: "This case is about a teacher who exploited her position to engage in sexual activity with one of her pupils. She flirted with him, exchanged messages with him, took him to her home and she had sex with him." James denies having a sexual relationship with the boy and claimed he had been "put up" by someone to make the allegations against her, Mr Culver said. The prosecutor told the court that the relationship began after the pupil asked for James' Snapchat username, which she initially refused before accepting, and they began exchanging "flirty" messages. The prosecutor said that James first met up with the pupil by picking him up in her car and them parking at Weston Shore, Southampton, where they "kissed". The pair then went to James' home where they "kissed and cuddled" while watching Wimbledon on the television, before they went to her bedroom where they performed sexual acts on each other and had sexual intercourse, Mr Culver said. He said that they had sex three or four times at her home and added: "They messaged daily and she told [him] she cared about him and they even discussed moving in with each other. She told him she loved him and wanted to move away together." In a video interview with police, the pupil said that they "always used to flirt in lessons" before they met up in her car. He said that the following day she came up to him in class and asked him in a "flirty" manner: "Where were you last night?" The boy said that they progressed to having sexual intercourse at her house and added: "At the time I was overwhelmed, it was great, but looking back at it, it was wrong." Describing the first encounter at her home, he said: "She was coming to me on the sofa, head in my lap, watching TV, her dog was there as well, just relaxing, then I leaned in for a kiss. We were kissing, then things progressed, I said 'Shall we go upstairs?', she said 'yes' and we had sex." The boy added that in class, James, who he described as "quite attractive" would slip him vapes in his coursework and also said that she liked him to call her "Miss" when they were alone together. He said: "She is a bit weird but I rolled with it, it was a little bit dodge but I didn’t care." The boy also told how James had called him while she was at her leaver's party and told him - with other teachers in the background - that she loved him. He added: "I thought she cared about me." The trial continues.