Description
Book SynopsisJack 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.
