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The girl was making a cast of her hands in January 2007, magistrates in Boston, Lincolnshire, were told.
The plaster heated up and set. Neither staff nor paramedics could get it off, leaving the pupil at Giles School in Boston with serious burns.
The school admitted breaching health and safety rules.
It also admitted failing to report the matter to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), which only found out about what happened from the girl's plastic surgeon
Jo Anderson, prosecuting for the HSE, said the girl had been told by her teacher to put her hands into clay to make a mould.
She was then supposed to pour the liquid plaster into the clay mould. Instead she put her hand up to the wrist into the bucket of plaster.
It is understood the mixture began to solidify within about 10 minutes and she soon realised she could not remove her hands.
"The student's hands were literally being burnt as the plaster was setting around them," Miss Anderson said.
"There was no way the student could or should have known of the catastrophic consequences."
Plastic surgeons did what they could to help the girl, but after 12 operations she was left with no fingers on one hand and just two on the other.
"But she is a very stoical. She is a very determined, self sufficient character but she is now only left with one forefinger and an index finger."
Mr Hill said his client had now had enough of surgery.
It had not only left her with just two fingers, it also with severe scars all over her body where the plastic surgeons had taken skin for grafts.
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