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How to build a behaviour policy based on kindness
When children returned after lockdown, teachers at Emily Gazzard’s primary school noticed some seemed to have forgotten how to be kind. Their answer was to put kindness at the heart of school policies
Primary
19 March 2024
Open letter: ‘Dear Mr Williamson, I have some concerns’
In an open letter to the education secretary, primary teacher Emily Gazzard lays out her many – many – concerns with the way teachers have been treated this year
1 December 2020
Primary assessment: The teacher bites back - an extraordinary open letter to the schools minister
English coordinator Emily Gazzard was so incensed by the controversial new primary assessment materials that she wrote an open letter to education secretary Nicky Morgan that nearly broke the internet. Schools minister Nick Gibb replied a month later. Now Ms Gazzard has, in turn, responded
6 April 2016
One primary teacher’s open letter to the government: ‘The standards expected are now untenable’
The publication of the new primary assessment materials was the straw that broke the camel’s back for this English coordinator. She decided she had to write an open letter to education secretary Nicky Morgan
24 February 2016