Miss, What Does Incomprehensible Mean?
A humorous but life-affirming diary-style memoir set in the manic world of the busy teacher’s life - where it's not just the pupils who misbehave.
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Fran Hill is an English teacher and freelance writer living in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire with her husband. She started her freelance career in the 1990s contributing regularly as a humour columnist and features writer for the national Christian newspaper Christian Herald and has often been published in Woman Alive and other religious publications. She has contributed many articles to TES (formerly the Times Educational Supplement), maintaining a monthly opinion column from 2008-2010 as well as supplying other features on education. She writes a regular blog, Being Me, and more information about her is available on her website at www.franhill.co.uk
The Victoria Wood of the classroom!
A fascinating, highly entertaining, vital insight into a teacher’s life. Funny but heart-felt - Fran’s riveting account of life in front of the class shows us a glimpse of the humanity and heart that goes into such a familiar but misunderstood role. A thoroughly recommended memoir.
This day by day account by Fran Hill manages to be both enlightening and entertaining. In a world where demands seem to arrive from every quarter, many will identify with Fran’s struggles to keep her teaching career, her marriage and her spiritual life on track. There are surprises along the way and amidst the knockabout humour, some telling spiritual lessons we can all draw from.
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A funny, life-affirming memoir, in diary form. Set in the manic world of a busy teacher, and based on real experiences, Fran Hill's account of one typical year shows it's not just the pupils who misbehave.
English teacher 'Miss' starts the Autumn term beleaguered by self-doubts. She's mid-menopause, insomniac, and Mirror and Bathroom Scales are blisteringly unsympathetic. Her pupils make her laugh, weep, fume and despair, often in the same lesson. Her unremitting workload blights family time and she feels guilty for missing church events to catch up on marking. After all, God-lady is watching.
Meanwhile, the new Head of Department seems unreachable, an Ofsted inspection looms, her sixth formers (against school policy) insist on sitting in rows, and there's a school magazine to produce...
When childhood secrets demand attention Miss doesn't want to give them, life gets complicated.
English teacher 'Miss' starts the Autumn term beleaguered by self-doubts. She's mid-menopause, insomniac, and Mirror and Bathroom Scales are blisteringly unsympathetic. Her pupils make her laugh, weep, fume and despair, often in the same lesson. Her unremitting workload blights family time and she feels guilty for missing church events to catch up on marking. After all, God-lady is watching.
Meanwhile, the new Head of Department seems unreachable, an Ofsted inspection looms, her sixth formers (against school policy) insist on sitting in rows, and there's a school magazine to produce...
When childhood secrets demand attention Miss doesn't want to give them, life gets complicated.
Author
Fran Hill is an English teacher and freelance writer living in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire with her husband. She started her freelance career in the 1990s contributing regularly as a humour columnist and features writer for the national Christian newspaper Christian Herald and has often been published in Woman Alive and other religious publications. She has contributed many articles to TES (formerly the Times Educational Supplement), maintaining a monthly opinion column from 2008-2010 as well as supplying other features on education. She writes a regular blog, Being Me, and more information about her is available on her website at www.franhill.co.uk
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The Victoria Wood of the classroom!
A fascinating, highly entertaining, vital insight into a teacher’s life. Funny but heart-felt - Fran’s riveting account of life in front of the class shows us a glimpse of the humanity and heart that goes into such a familiar but misunderstood role. A thoroughly recommended memoir.
This day by day account by Fran Hill manages to be both enlightening and entertaining. In a world where demands seem to arrive from every quarter, many will identify with Fran’s struggles to keep her teaching career, her marriage and her spiritual life on track. There are surprises along the way and amidst the knockabout humour, some telling spiritual lessons we can all draw from.
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English teacher 'Miss' starts the Autumn term beleaguered by self-doubts. She's mid-menopause, insomniac, and Mirror and Bathroom Scales are blisteringly unsympathetic. Her pupils make her laugh, weep, fume and despair, often in the same lesson. Her unremitting workload blights family time and she feels guilty for missing church events to catch up on marking. After all, God-lady is watching.
Meanwhile, the new Head of Department seems unreachable, an Ofsted inspection looms, her sixth formers (against school policy) insist on sitting in rows, and there's a school magazine to produce...
When childhood secrets demand attention Miss doesn't want to give them, life gets complicated.