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Up and Down in the Dales
Gervase Phinn
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Description for Up and Down in the Dales
Paperback. Life for the Gervase Phinn is about to become not unlike the rambling hills of the Dales themselves - up and down and all over the place. After a routine school inspection - and a rather brutal report - culminates with a teacher being forced into early retirement, Gervase is left feeling his year hasn't exactly begun on the right foot. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKEYK; BGA; JNKF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 198 x 20. Weight in Grams: 248.
Escape to the country with Gervase Phinn's heartwarming tales of life as a school inspector in Yorkshire
'Gervase Phinn's memoirs have made him a hero in school staff-rooms' Daily Telegraph
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What's your name? I asked the child.
'Tequila,' she replied. I'm named after a drink.'
'Tequila Sunrise,' I murmured.
'No,' pouted the child. 'Tequila Braithwaite.'
Now in his fourth year as an Inspector for English in the Yorkshire Dales, Gervase Phinn still relishes visiting the schools - whether an inner-city comprehensive fraught with difficulties or a small Dales Primary school where the main danger is one ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141011318
SKU
V9780141011318
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About Gervase Phinn
Gervase Phinn is a teacher, freelance lecturer, author, poet, school inspector, educational consultant and visiting professor of education - but none of these is more important than his family. For fourteen years he taught in a range of schools, then acted as General Advisor for Language Development in Rotherham before moving on to North Yorkshire, where he spent ten ... Read more
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