Summary
What does the future hold for Ragley village school?
Jack Sheffield returns to Ragley-on-the-Forest for his ninth action-packed year as village headmaster.
It’s 1985, and as Jack returns for another year as headteacher at Ragley village school, some changes are in store.
It’s the year of Halley’s Comet, Band Aid, Trivial Pursuit, Dynasty shoulder pads, Roland Rat and Microsoft Windows. And at Ragley-on-the-Forest, Heathcliffe Earnshaw decides to enter the village scare…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780552171571 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0552171573 |
| Author: | Jack Sheffield |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Corgi Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 18 August 2016 |
| Weight: | 241g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 127mm x 21mm |
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Critics Review
Wry observation and heartwarming humour in equal measure
Wry observation and heartwarming humour in equal measure * Alan Titchmarsh *
Overflowing with amusing anecdotes * Daily Express *
Amusing adventures at the North Yorkshire village school * Choice *
Jack Sheffield’s in a class of his own * York Press *
About The Author
Jack Sheffield
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
- School Days
- Last Day of School
He lives in Hampshire.
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