内容摘要：“It became my full-time job until we felt everybody knew what was happening, the system had been changed and the perpetrators held to account”, he added.

“It became my full-time job until we felt everybody knew what was happening, the system had been changed and the perpetrators held to account”, he added.

The man said he had "no other option" but to open fire on the brown bear when it attacked him during a boar-hunt in 2021.Fifteen other hunters were also fined and must collectively pay more than €60,000 (£51,000) in damages to environmental associations that had filed a civil suit against them.

The 150kg female bear, nicknamed Caramelles, has since been preserved by a taxidermist and is on display at the Toulouse Natural History Museum.The Foix Criminal Court heard that the group were boar-hunting in the Pyrenees, the mountain range that separates southern France and Spain, when two bear cubs emerged.Shortly afterwards their mother appeared, charging at the man and dragging him several metres, before he shot and killed the animal.

"She grabbed my left thigh, I panicked and fired a shot. She backed away growling, she went around me and bit my right calf, I fell, she was eating my leg," he told the court."I reloaded my rifle and fired."

The shooting happened in the Mont Valier nature reserve near the village of Seix, Ariège. Prosecutors said they should not have been there in the first place, because it was 1,300ft (396m) outside an authorised hunting area.

But the defence lawyer for 14 of the hunters, Fanny Campagne, criticised "the lack of signs indicating that hunting was prohibited".She said there had been difficulties, but felt the culture in the school was starting to change and that pupils seemed "happier".

Pupil Lilly-Belle, 12, was told off in her first week at the school because she was wearing her sister's old skirts which were not the right length.She said the approach could be "a bit strict sometimes" but added: "It's better to be strict than not strict at all."

Caden, 12, said he had been pulled up for an untucked shirt but said he was comfortable with the rules: "I'm quite happy with them and they're good."Parent Katherine, who has two sons at the school, said the change in approach was initially a shock.