| StorageSite | UCL Institute of Education |
| Level | File |
| Reference Number | UWT/D/29/18 |
| Title | 'Deputation to the Board of Education on Teachers Duties in Wartime' |
| Date | 1940 - 1941 |
| Description | Correspondence between A. Muriel Pierotti (NUWT), the Board of Education, and NUWT members including Hilda R. Walmesley and Helen Dedman regarding teacher's duties in wartime. This includes concerns over the use of schools for other purposes, staggered school holidays, concerns over the organisation of evacuation, teacher's duties towards fire-watching and Air Raid Precautions, and continuing allowances for evacuated women teachers.
The correspondence covers:
Concerns over the use of schools for other purposes
Staggered school holidays
Concerns over the organisation of evacuation
Teacher's duties towards fire-watching and Air Raid Precautions
Continuing allowances for evacuated women teachers
General Secretary's report - includes a report of the deputation received by Sir Maurice Holmes, Permanent Secretary to the Board of Education
Thanks from the NUWT to Sir Maurice Holmes for the time he gave to the NUWT deputation
Arrangements for the deputation
Offer to publicise the deputation and any reslts of it in 'The New Era'
Circular letter sent to Editors of newspapers and journals asking them to publicise a statement on the deputation
Central Council reports on amalgamation of schools in reception areas, release of teachers for teaching work, size of classes, staffing, health of school children, holidays, fire watching and evacuation allowances
Letters of concern from NUWT members over teacher's duties in wartime
Reports from members of the situation in their area with regards to fire watching duties, holidays, evacuation and Air Raid Precautions and their experiences of evacuation of school children in their care
Requests and confirmations of leaves of absence for teachers to attend the deputation
NUWT statement 'A Plan for Education in War-Time', 1940
'Government Evacuation Scheme - clothing and footwear for evacuated children not accompanied by their parents', 1940
press cuttings regarding:
Children's health
Appointments of married women teachers
Reports of women teachers volunteering for fire watching duties |
| Extent | 1 folder |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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