A private school teacher sent intimate messages to two female pupils, an investigation has found.

A Teaching Regulation Agency panel heard Reece Morgan worked at Seaford College in West Sussex when he exchanged ‘increasingly-more-inappropriate’ emails with ‘Pupil A’, the BBC reports.

According to the panel’s decision, Morgan later suggested to ‘Pupil B’ in messages between them that he could have a relationship with her.

The panel banned Morgan from teaching indefinitely, subject to a two-year review period.

The hearing was told Morgan and Pupil A’s emails ‘became increasingly more inappropriate over time’.

In one email to the pupil, seen by the panel, he said: “You don’t need any more conversations to establish your significance in my life, so just deal with the fact that you’re stuck with me.”

The English, classics, and Latin teacher referred to himself using nicknames, including Reemo, The Morganator, and Big Morge, the hearing was told.

And the panel ruled the emails, sent between June and July 2019, were ‘inappropriate’ and ‘intimate’, but found his conduct was not sexually motivated.

The panel also heard that Morgan gave Pupil A a gift during a school event outside the boarding house where he lived.

He denied this was an ‘intimate’ act, but the panel ruled that giving a gift in those circumstances at that location was ‘deeply personal, such that it was intimate’.

The teacher also admitted he had hugged Pupil A once at a school event.

Morgan began daily messaging a second female pupil, ‘Pupil B’, in the weeks after her final term in July until October 2019.

He left the school that summer, but remained employed until September 2019.

The teacher went for a coffee and walk on the beach with Pupil B that August, when he hugged her.

The hearing was told Mr Morgan admitted to a colleague he had been to visit Pupil B’s parents ‘to level it all out’ and ‘thought it would be suspect’ to carry on contacting her without doing so.

The panel found that visiting Pupil B’s parents showed that he knew his contact with her had ‘intimated that a relationship was possible’.

The panel accepted that Morgan ‘recognised the impact his actions had’ on the pupils, but expressed concern that his conduct ‘may have continued’ had the relationships not been disclosed to the school or the parents.