Un Gros Ca Sourit Toujours (Un Gros Ca Sourit Toujours, #1)
by Erik Gosselin
'A frank, funny and long overdue ode to teachers and teaching' Adam Kay'Hilarious, inspiring and so terrifyingly true' Lucy KellawayThe malodorous horrors of Sports Day. Bracing yourself for Parents' Evening. Refereeing teenage relationship dramas. This is not what you see in the adverts. From the age of eight, Ryan Wilson dreamt of being a teacher. This is the inside story of his time at the chalkface, from fresh-faced trainee with grand ideals to exhausted assistant head battling ever-changing...
The Ultimate Guide to a Long-Lasting and Memorable College Journey
by Pristin Bonnes
Will some students ever learn from their mistakes? We hope not! This all-new collection of hilarious, totally wrong, real test answers serves a fresh batch of A+ wit misapplied to F- quiz scores. A little studying would reveal that the most powerful light source known to man isn't "lightsabers," nor do we salt the roads when it snows "to make them taste better." But where's the fun in that? From the same wellspring of failure as the million-selling F in Exams series, this special pop quiz collec...
New and experienced educators alike will laugh and commiserate with Stephanie’s blunt, no-holds-barred commentary, which covers topics such nailing down (and surviving) that first teaching position (“When You’re a 22-year-old Teacher and Your Students are 18 ”), struggling with difficult students and day-to-day classroom frustrations (“Why Do I Kind of Hate This Job?: A Teacher’s Year-Long Soliloquy”), avoiding that annoying coworker (“Just Stay Out of the Faculty Lounge”), dealing with administ...
A new collection of real-life comments, pleas, put downs, misplaced career guidance and character assessments collected from the school reports and memoirs of celebrities AND ordinary people from across the UK and Ireland. The collection is designed to gratify people’s interest in the school performance of famous people, to remind them of their own school days and to make them laugh.
NEW FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHORS OF HOW TO POO AT WORK From the excretion experts who brought you the global phenomenon How to Poo at Work comes Things to Do While You Poo. Specifically written to help those pooing on the job, this book is the ultimate guide to sedentary self-improvement. Expert authors Mats and Enzo share their scientific advice crafted over a lifetime of lavatory investigations to help improve every aspect of your life. From success in your career to a satisfying sex life, f...
"[C]harming and surprising. . . The work of Admissions is laying down, with wit and care, the burden James assumed at 15, that she - or any Black student, or all Black students - would manage the failures of a racially illiterate community. . . The best depiction of elite whiteness I've read."-New York TimesEarly on in Kendra James' professional life, she began to feel like she was selling a lie. As an admissions officer specializing in diversity recruitment for independent prep schools, she per...
The newest book in the popular Humor for the Heart series, Humor for a Teacher's Heart, is sure to become a favorite. This collection of humorous stories illustrates the lighter sides of the joys, challenges, and adventures of being a teacher. With best-selling authors like Martha Bolton, Marilyn Meberg, Teresa Bell Kindred, and Jeanne Zomes, this hilarious book will lift teacher's spirits on their roughest days and give them a renewed passion for their career.
At an elite prep school, the devil wears Lilly Pulitzer pink. When Wade Rouse, who grew up more Hee-Haw than Dynasty, was hired as the director of publicity at the prestigious Tate Academy, he quickly discovered his real job: to make the very pretty, very rich, very mean mommies of the elite students very happy. Enter Wade’s VIP volunteer and perfectly coiffed nightmare, former beauty queen and sports star Katherine Isabelle Ludington—Kitsy to her friends. In between designing Louis Vuitton–in...
For the second year at Downey House, it's getting harder and harder to stick to the rules ...It's about making them ...Now she's engaged to sweet and steady Stan, Maggie's just got to stop thinking about David McDonald, her opposite number at Downey Boys ...hasn't she? Can Maggie take a leaf out of the Well Behaved Teacher's exercise book - and stick to it? It's about breaking them ...But headmistress Veronica Deveral has more to lose than anyone. When Daniel Stapleton joins the faculty, she's f...
The Ladybird Book of The Nerd (Ladybirds for Grown-Ups)
by Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris
THE PERFECT GIFT for anyone who not only loves watching their favourite TV series over and over, but also enjoys reading online forums about their favourite TV series over and over.__________________________________'This is a nerd.He has a PhD and works in the biochemistry lab of a university hospital. But this is not what makes him a nerd.His catalogued and indexed collection of over 6,000 empty crisp packets does that.'__________________________________'These nerds have paid money to see a fil...
STUFFED WITH OVER 60 CLASSIC SCHOOL DINNER RECIPES. There aren’t any Turkey Twizzlers in this book (thanks, Jamie Oliver!) … Instead, there are bucketloads of tasty childhood favourites, like Sprinkle Cake, Roast Dinners, Cheese and Onion Pie, Chocolate Cake and Pink Custard, Butterscotch Tart, Sausage and Mash, Beef Stew, Jam Roly-Poly and much more. With simple instructions and stunning illustrations, this book is perfect for anyone wanting...