A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD boy threatened to stab his pregnant teacher in the stomach as an "obscene" epidemic of school violence pummels the UK.

The child said he would knife the mum-to be in a row over schoolwork in a classroom in Northern Ireland.

It comes as an epidemic of school violence sweeps Northern Ireland and knife crime surges across Britain.

At least 20 victims have been stabbed to death in London alone so far this year.

And with street violence on the rise school officials in Northern Ireland said staff are encountering "obscene" levels of violence on a daily basis.

Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) survey showed a fifth of school staff are assaulted in the classroom once a week.

Officials said staff are encountering "obscene" levels of violence on a daily basis.

The Ulster Teachers' Union (UTU) is now working with the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) to prevent "a real tragedy" in the classroom, with school violence dominating this week's UTU conference.

Jacquie White, UTU's deputy general secretary, told The Belfast Telegraph: "One teacher was told by a seven-year-old that he would 'stab her pregnant belly' because he didn't want to do literacy.

'PINNED TO A WALL'
"In another incident a senior teacher of 30 years' experience was pinned to a wall studded with coat hooks by a P7 boy simply because he got in his way.”

She added: "These are the realities behind the headlines when the public sees teachers asking for help and highlighting their growing fears about violence in the classroom."

Last month, Ofsted warned head teachers aren’t carrying out knife searches or teaching pupils about the dangers of carrying blades.

Heads fear being branded a “problem school” by parents.

Knife crime has surged across Britain, with London suffering its bloodiest year in a decade as the number of murders hit 135 last year.

The total number of London murders, excluding victims of terrorism, has shot up by 38 per cent since 2014.

In the classroom, a third of education workers are physically abuse annually and 83 per cent verbally abused in the classroom, last month’s ICTU survey shows.

Separate figures from the Education and Training Inspectorate (ETI) show four and five-year-olds are among growing numbers being suspended.

In the 2016/17 academic year, 4,084 pupils were suspended, with 286 of those primary school age and 74 were in P1 or P2.

BLADE BRITAIN
Kids as young are five risk-assessed as teachers fear they could harm other students.

Cops have invited union leaders to team up with officers to stem the rising tide of threats from youngsters.

Ms White said violent threats against teachers were now ‘on an entirely different level’.

She added: “We welcome the invite by the PSNI to work with them to halt the obscene levels of violence which teachers encounter daily.

“It must stop before there is a real tragedy.”

She added: "The incidences we encounter in our profession are horrifying and in any other setting would trigger an immediate response, yet teachers are expected to take it as part of their job, regardless of the impact it has on their mental and physical well-being."

A PSNI spokesman said abuse of ‘of any kind whether physical, verbal or online is unacceptable’ and urged teachers to report it to the police.