THE five papers in John Tomsett’s A Great Education for All manifesto (The Press, February 21) chimed strongly with key aspects of Green Party policies.

These policies support a curriculum to broaden school education by including subjects such as emotional literacy and well-being; social skills; the environment; citizenship; practical life skills, as well as numeracy and literacy.

For too long education has been a political football between the two main parties and has been starved of funding, with local state schools undermined through preferential treatment of academies.

The Greens believe that the education and learning environment should be free from fear and any sense of failure that often results from school inspections, exam league tables and the results based teaching approach.

We also believe that schools and colleges should be answerable locally to the community and to parents and the students themselves.

I am a new member of the Green Party and have been impressed with the Green philosophy and policies. I believe the Greens offer a fresh and sensible approach to the future of education that I hope local people will support.

Clive Millard, Green Party candidate for Huntington and New Earswick ward, Huntington, York.