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"Are You Strong, Lass?": "You'll Need to be Working Here...: Memoirs from a 1970s Yorkshire Classroom
Kath Padgrtt
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Description for "Are You Strong, Lass?": "You'll Need to be Working Here...: Memoirs from a 1970s Yorkshire Classroom
Paperback. The trials, tribulations and occasional successes of a newly qualified teacher in the early 1970s at an urban school in West Yorkshire, the characters she comes across in the classroom and staffroom accompanied by a series of letters to and from parents Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 16. .
"My story is in no way all sweetness and light, cute and slushy. It's earthy, gritty and heartbreaking, yet also rewarding,challenging, life-changing and vital." Kath Padgett was a naive, newly qualified graduate teacher of modern languages just as Dawn were topping the charts with 'Knock Three Times,' Spangles were the sweets of choice and orange miniskirts with shoes from Freeman, Hardy & Willis all the rage. This is the tale of those teaching years ...the characters and dark humour, the rawness, deprivations and instilling of hope as much as education. Sharing a social history of the time - including original ... Read more
"My story is in no way all sweetness and light, cute and slushy. It's earthy, gritty and heartbreaking, yet also rewarding,challenging, life-changing and vital." Kath Padgett was a naive, newly qualified graduate teacher of modern languages just as Dawn were topping the charts with 'Knock Three Times,' Spangles were the sweets of choice and orange miniskirts with shoes from Freeman, Hardy & Willis all the rage. This is the tale of those teaching years ...the characters and dark humour, the rawness, deprivations and instilling of hope as much as education. Sharing a social history of the time - including original ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Scratching Shed Publishing Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Leeds, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780993510144
SKU
V9780993510144
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About Kath Padgrtt
At my first interview for my very first permanent job after graduating, I was asked, "Are you strong, lass? You'll need to be to work in this school." This question was put to me as I embarked upon my educational journey by Miss D. M. Brooke, the deputy head and was delivered in a steely and meaningful way which I ... Read more
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