A teenager has denied taking a knife to school.

Malachi Fox appeared yesterday at Magistrates’ Court and pleaded not guilty to two charges alleged to have happened at the Berkeley Institute.

The 16-year-old is accused of having a kitchen knife with a 6½-inch cutting edge at the school on June 1.

He is also alleged to have “used offensive words” to another person at the same place, on the same date.

Magistrate Archibald Warner released Mr Fox, of Sandys, on $3,000 bail and adjourned the case until August 30.