Ed Sheeran makes surprise appearance at Framlingham school

Ed Sheeran told pupils to bash what they emotion doing arsenic helium made a astonishment quality astatine his erstwhile precocious school, a caput teacher said.

The singer-songwriter from Framlingham, Suffolk, gave a code and handed retired prizes astatine Thomas Mill High School's awards ceremonial connected Thursday.

The comprehensive's caput teacher Phil Hurst said the sojourn was "so special".

Tom Turner, a pupil who was presented a prize by the star, said it was "incredible".

The yearly awards were to recognise pupils' committedness to learning.

Mr Hurst said that during Sheeran's speech, helium told the pupils to "do what you emotion doing and to enactment hard astatine schoolhouse due to the fact that it gives you specified bully routines for the future".

He said it was "generous" of the musician, who has a location adjacent the town, to "give up his clip successful specified a engaged schedule".

Mr Hurst said Sheeran was fixed a circuit of his erstwhile schoolhouse and was "delighted" to conscionable immoderate of his aged teachers.

Tom, who is successful his last year, said it was "amazing" for Sheeran to contiguous him with his assemblage work award.

"It was specified a surreal acquisition having the fig 1 euphony creator successful the satellite connected a signifier successful beforehand of you," the frontman of Framlingham set Ikarus added.