Edgware teacher chosen for national accolade

Beit Shvidler Primary School’s Gemma Blaker has been named “Teacher of the Week” by national children’s magazine The Week Junior, having received the highest number of nominations in the award’s history.

After pupils from her Year One class at the Edgware school began submitting nominations, students from across the primary added theirs.

Mrs Blaker was praised for her efforts to make learning interesting and relevant, taking pupils on local walking trips and sharing her passion for reading by setting up book clubs and creating reading challenges.

Parent Naomi Greenwood said: “Mrs Blaker sees every child for who they are and centres them and their needs in a way that is so refreshing and inspiring. As a parent with a child who has special educational needs, I can’t express enough how invaluable that is.