All Teachers Great and Small: A Memoir of Lessons and Life in the Yorkshire Dales

All Teachers Great and Small: A Memoir of Lessons and Life in the Yorkshire Dales
ISBN-10
0755362128
ISBN-13
9780755362127
Category
Country life
Pages
369
Language
English
Published
2011
Publisher
Headline Review
Author
Andy Seed

Description

Dear Mr Seed, I am sorry that are Jack was not at school yesterday. He put on such a groth spurt in the night that nun of his clowthes fitted im next morning so I had to take him to the shops. Mrs R. Twenty-five years ago, newly qualified teacher Andy Seed moved to a remote village in the Yorkshire Dales with his wife Barbara, anticipating breathtaking views and the gentle simplicity of the countryside. The picturesque scenery did not disappoint. But life as a primary school teacher was anything but simple. With a classroom full of colourful characters whose capacity for misunderstanding was exceeded only by their enthusiasm and their ability to leave him incredulous, Andy fell in love with teaching and with village life. ALL TEACHERS GREAT AND SMALL tells the true story of Andy's first year at Cragthwaite Primary School - how he bravely negotiated the vagaries of the local dialect, made disastrous bids to provide a family home, naively and hilariously tried out new-fangled ideas in a school stuck in a 1950s time warp, and ultimately discovered a little part of England he was proud to call home. Warm, touching and very funny, All Teachers Great and Small transports you to a time that may be gone but has never been forgotten.

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