Schoolchildren as young as six 'shown porn at church'

Parents of primary school children were reportedly left horrified when porn was shown on the big screen at a church they were attending for a harvest festival.

Pupils as young as six from Hornsea Community Primary School in East Yorkshire were having a singalong at the nearby United Reformed Church when lyrics to a harvest song were allegedly briefly replaced by 'utter filth'.

Teachers rushed into action to turn off the images, projected from a laptop being used by church volunteers.

Staff at the school, which has 550 pupils, wrote to parents following the incident with council safeguarding staff called in to talk to the distressed attendees, according to The Sun.

A letter sent to parents the same day explained that in singing the harvest songs, children were reading lyrics from a projector screen operated by church volunteers. 

However, for 'a few seconds', the words vanished in place of 'inappropriate content'.

The letter claimed staff were not sure whether the youngsters realised what was going on.

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The school's safeguarding chief has supposedly contacted the church to deal with the incident appropriately. 

Victoria Aitken, cabinet member for children, families and education at East Riding of Yorkshire Council said: 'We have been made aware of the incident within the church.

'The school informed families the same day and will not be using the church until we can be reassured that this cannot happen again.

'The church are conducting their own enquiries into the incident.'

One member of the United Reformed Church suggested to The Sun that the incident was indefensible, adding 'we will let the process take its course'.

MailOnline has contacted the church separately for comment.