A picture of a Christian used in RE lessons at a school at the centre of the "Trojan Horse" scandal depicted "a white person", according to a teacher.

The anonymous teacher, who was giving witness evidence to a professional misconduct panel in Birmingham today, said the picture was just one example of "inaccuracies in the RE curriculum" when she arrived at Oldknow Academy in 2012.

The woman - referred to as Teacher P - told a panel: "We weren't following the Birmingham agreed syllabus.

"One example is that when I started, one of the Year 3 lessons was 'What does a Christian look like?' and it showed a picture of a white person.

"That was when I was an NQT (newly qualified teacher), around the autumn term of 2012."

Teacher P said she had never seen whether any similar images existed for Hindu, Muslim or Sikh worshippers.

She was giving evidence to a National College of Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) panel in Bournville, today, which is considering allegations of professional misconduct against former acting head Jahangir Akbar and ex-teacher Asif Khan.

Teacher P described Mr Akbar as "really supportive", throughout the time he was at the school.

However, she also told the panel Mr Khan "behaved inappropriately by sharing his personal beliefs with the children, for example telling the children they were not allowed pet dogs as they were Muslim".

Mr Akbar and Mr Khan face an allegation that on or before July 31 last year, they had agreed to "the inclusion of an undue amount of religious influence in the education of pupils", at the academy.

They are facing several separate accusations of wrong-doing, including stopping Christmas and Diwali celebrations, while Mr Khan is also accused of turning his back on a woman when she offered to shake his hand.

Mr Khan allegedly told some male pupils to change for PE in a store cupboard "so as not to show their thighs".

He is further alleged to have banned youngsters singing during the school's Wizard of Oz production, and "would not allow the children to listen to music or to draw trees or eyes".

Earlier, Mr Akbar gave evidence telling how he joined as vice principal at the academy where his brother worked and that he had first met Mr Khan when they were at King's College London many years before.

He said he was "under huge pressure" within months of joining in early April 2013, and that much of his time was taken with the academy's free school application after then principal Bhupinder Kondal - a Sikh - assigned him the job.

The Small Heath-based academy was also applying to become a multi-academy trust, and Mr Akbar was for two weeks the acting headteacher of the then failing Al-Furqan Primary School before he stepped down from the role over workload.

Mr Akbar said "there were many performance issues" and that "it became clear to me that Ms Kondal felt overwhelmed by them".

In one governors' meeting, chaired by Achmad Da Costa, he described how he and a fellow vice principal spoke about Ms Kondal's performance after she had left the room.

Panel member Martin Greenslade asked: "You don't think in the interest of open management of the academy, this discussion should have taken place in front of the principal (Ms Kondal)?"

Mr Akbar replied: "There was nothing under-hand, nothing sinister at all."

Ms Kondal resigned in January 2014, and although she returned to the school later in the year, left again at the end of 2014.

He was also asked about a meeting where he was present when Mr Khan was spoken to by Ms Kondal for allegedly leading chants in pupil assemblies of "We don't believe in Christmas, do we?"

Mr Akbar said: "He went a bit too far", however no formal disciplinary action was apparently taken.

Asked whether he felt the way Mr Khan had been dealt with was appropriate, Mr Akbar then said: "In hindsight I do accept the possibility we could have gone a bit further."

Mr Akbar had already told the panel that an annual trip to Saudi Arabia, Friday prayers, Arabic/English signs around the school and the teaching of Arabic were "all in place" before he started at Oldknow.

He earlier told the panel any final decision not to have a Christmas tree and other choices not to mark festivities at the school in 2013 had lain with Ms Kondal.

When the "Trojan Horse" scandal broke, with an explosive and anonymous letter alleging hard-line Muslims were involved in a coordinated plot to take over some city schools, Oldknow was inspected by the Education Funding Agency (EFA) and Ofsted.

The previously outstanding school was rated as "failing" after the inspections in April 2014.

The former acting headteacher told the panel: "I was acting head for only 40 working days before Ofsted and the EFA arrived.

"In that time I could not have narrowed the curriculum or Islamify the school."

He has denied any wrong-doing, while Oldknow has since been taken on by the Ark Trust.

His former colleague, Mr Khan, has not appeared once at the hearing with the three-member panel previously told he was thought to be in Qatar.

The hearing continues.