Written for the teacher standing in front of the class.
The Calm Classroom is written by Emma Whitcombe for the person doing the hardest, least-glamorous part of the job — keeping a room calm enough to learn in.
These aren’t theory books. Every handbook is built the same way: around the moments that actually derail a lesson — the defiance, the meltdown, the quiet child who can’t come in — the words that settle them, and the printable tools you can use the same week. No lecturing, no jargon for its own sake. Just what works on a Monday.
The books are written for England. The safeguarding chain (DSL), the SEND Code of Practice, attendance law, suspension and exclusion — all of it is set out the way it actually applies here, and dated, so you can trust it in front of a parent, a SENCo or a head of year. Where something turns on your own school’s policy or on guidance that may have moved, it’s flagged, so you check before you act.
The whole teaching pack the book points to — scripts, worksheets, checklists, letters home — comes with the e-book, free. There’s no “buy the resource pack” wall, because the tools are the point.
- Built from real classroom situations, not display-board ideals.
- England’s safeguarding, SEND and attendance law set out correctly — and dated.
- Every script and printable ready to use on A4, the same week.