A Bradford school has installed CCTV cameras into all of its classrooms to prevent bullying.

Staff at Princeville Primary in Lidget Green believe they are the only school in the country to have cameras trained on every single classroom in the building.

Schools across Bradford have spent the past five days running events and workshops to promote anti-bullying week which finished yesterday.

But teachers at Princeville Primary believe they have found the best way of improving their pupils' behaviour.

The school has 43 CCTV cameras in place in classrooms, the staff room, public areas and the playground.

Head teacher Peter Steele said the school extended its CCTV after realising that the existing security cameras were improving pupils' behaviour.

He said: "We have had CCTV for about six years. It started in a small way with a security grant from the DfES (Department for Education and Skills).

"We found it was useful for dealing with behaviour issues, particularly bullying."

The extra cameras have been installed in small perspex domes on the ceiling and cost £8,000 from the school's budget.

They record images 24 hours a day to be viewed on three computer servers. But the tapes are only viewed if staff or children report an incident of concern.

Mr Steele said: "It is a part of a strategy for dealing with bullying. We can confront the bully with CCTV footage. It stops bullies from looking to get revenge on another pupil who has reported bullying because they don't know where the information has come from.

"It also allows us to show tapes to parents to stop them thinking we are being vindictive towards their children.

"And we can ask a child: 'If I check the tape then what will it show me?' And they are more honest and open."

Teacher Michelle Hargreaves said: "There are a number of ways it helps us both inside and outside the classroom and the playground. It gets the children to review their own behaviour because they realise what they are actually doing and you can see the look of shock on their face when you show them the tape as they think: 'Oh yeah, I did do that'."

Mr Steele said the cameras had made the school a safer place and also helped the school solve everyday problems such as finding lost property.

And three teachers have just used the recordings from the cameras to evaluate their own teaching in a pilot project funded by the DfES Innovations Unit.

Now Mr Steele is urging other schools to follow their example.

He said: "We have tried to find other schools which have the same facilities so that we can share ideas and develop this but we cannot find any other school which has CCTV in every classroom like this."