Village Teacher [electronic resource]
Sheffield, Jack2013
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It's 1980: recession and unemployment have hit Britain, a royal wedding is on the way, and the whole country is wondering Who Shot JR? As Jack returns for his fourth year at Ragley-on-the Forest School, there's a definite chill in the air. Village schools are being closed down all over the place - will his be one of them?As school life continues - Vera, the school secretary, has to grapple with a new-fangled electric typewriter, Ruby celebrates ten years as the school cleaner, and the village panto throws up some unusual problems - Jack wonders what the future holds... 'Wry observation and heartwarming humour in equal measure' Alan Titchmarsh
Main title:
Village Teacher [electronic resource] / Jack Sheffield
Author:
Sheffield, Jack, AuthorBarnes, Michael Tudor, Narrator
Edition:
Unabridged
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Transworld, 2013
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file)
Series:
Teacher
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Jack Sheffield grew up in the tough environment of Gipton Estate, in North East Leeds. After a job as a 'pitch boy', repairing roofs, he became a Corona Pop man before going to St John's College, York, and training to be a teacher. In the late seventies and eighties, he was a headteacher of two schools in North Yorkshire before becoming Senior Lecturer in Primary Education at Bretton Hall College of the University of Leeds. It was at this time he began to record his many amusing stories of village life as portrayed in Teacher, Teacher!, Mister Teacher, Dear Teacher, Village Teacher, Please Sir!, Educating Jack, School's Out!, Silent Night, Star Teacher, Happiest Days, Starting Over, Changing Times, Back to School and School Days. He lives in Hampshire.
ISBN:
9781448154548
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2802808
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