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A Sydney primary school teacher suspended over a nude photo shoot in a women’s magazine says she will fight to save her career.

Lynne Tziolas, 24, is launching legal action against the NSW Education Department to be reinstated to her position at Narraweena Public School.

Her students’ families are also rallying in support, organising a petition for her to keep her job.

The Year 1 teacher and her husband Antonios Tziolas, 45, appear together in a sealed section of this month’s Cleo magazine, discussing their relationship and sex life, alongside nine other couples.

Despite the fallout from the publication, the Tziolases say they stand by their actions and would do it again.

Mrs Tziolas, who has been a full-time temporary teacher for two years at the school in Sydney’s northern beaches, was notified by letter last week that her employment had ended.

“The teacher’s engagement has been ceased and the Department of Education and Training’s Employee Performance and Conduct Branch is investigating,” a department spokesman said in a statement.

The findings of that investigation could end Mrs Tziolas’ short career as a teacher with the department.

“We have the power to do that,” the spokesman told AAP when asked if such investigations could ban a teacher from the NSW public school system.

The department said Mrs Tziolas’ suspension followed complaints from “several” parents at the school.

“Several Narraweena parents complained to the school about photographs and inappropriate sexual comments in a Cleo magazine article,” the spokesman said.

Mr Tziolas disagrees.

“The photo shoot was perceived as a problem by some people in the community and the suspension came after one anonymous complaint by a concerned parent,” Mr Tziolas, also a qualified teacher, said.

While Mrs Tziolas hopes she can return to her class, saying she misses her students, she fears she will never be allowed to teach at the school again.

“During the meeting in which I was handed this letter, it was pretty much made certain to me that my reinstatement at Narraweena would be very, very most certainly unlikely,” she said.

“I’m a temporary teacher, which means they have the ability to dismiss me straight away without any recourse.”

The couple agreed to the photo shoot after being approached by a friend who was unable to take part in the article.

“We got some beautiful, loving shots that we wanted for a keepsake and we were paid to do it,” Mr Tziolas said.

“We were honest. Yes, we’re both teachers. Yes, we have sex, and yes, we are loving and committed to each other.

“What we did we both stand by. We would do it again.”