Six-year-old boy hospitalised after sitting on pencil at school

It was a painful return to school for a young student in Sydney, Australia, on Wednesday morning after sitting on a pencil and being taken to hospital.



Paramedics were called to Fairvale Public school in Fairfield where they treated a boy, believed to be six years old, for an injury to his buttocks.

The boy was taken to Westmead Hospital in a stable condition. Initial reports that the boy had been stabbed with the pencil were incorrect, a Department of Education spokesperson said.



Thousands of students across New South Wales headed back to school yesterday morning after the extended Christmas break.