A Sydney high school teacher charged with sexually touching a 16-year-old student also worked as a director at a youth musical theatre company involving children as young as five.
Tyson Moon, a music and drama teacher at Plumpton High School, has been charged with three counts of sexually touching a person over 16 and under 17 under special care.
Plumpton High School drama teacher Tyson Moon.Credit: Plumpton High School
Child abuse squad detectives charged Moon, 26, on November 14 after receiving reports of alleged misconduct by a teacher at a high school in Sydney’s north-west a fortnight earlier.
Moon has been prohibited from teaching and “will be unable to do so for the duration of any police or criminal matter”, a NSW Education Department spokesperson said.
Moon has worked as a music and drama teacher in Plumpton High School’s creative and performing arts faculty since 2021.
“Mr Moon’s professional experience in the theatre industry has assisted in the mentoring and guidance of his students to assist in their own success in performing arts subjects whilst experiencing a glimpse of what the professional theatre industry is like throughout his drama lessons in the classroom,” the school wrote in its 2022 Gifted and Talented Program information booklet.
“Mr Moon is thrilled to be sharing his passion of performing with his students whilst watching them grow and thrive in the performing arts.”
This year, Moon directed the Fantasia Showstoppers production of Dot and the Kangaroo JR.
According to its website, Fantasia Showstoppers was founded in 2020 to “provide meaningful and accessible creative opportunities for young people aged 5-21 in Sydney’s west”.
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