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About 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 and School Days. He lives in Hampshire.