The Great North Air Ambulance Service was called to a secondary school (Image: Iain Buist/Newcastle Chronicle)

Paramedics rushed to the secondary school after a child was injured. A year eight pupil needed emergency treatment following an accident on an all- weather pitch at St Hild's Church of England School in Hartlepool .

The boy was taken by ambulance to James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough following the incident just before 1pm on Monday. He is currently believed to be in a stable condition.

Paul Martin, headteacher at St Hild's Church of England School, told Teesside Live : "It was a pupil that was injured during lunch time, out on the all weather pitch, in an accident. We immediately called the emergency services and informed parents.

"The emergency servic

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