Gervase Phinn

Professor Gervase Phinn taught in a range of schools for fourteen years before becoming an education adviser and school inspector. He is now a freelance lecturer, broadcaster and writer, a consultant for the Open University, Honorary Fellow of St. John's College, York, Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) of the University of Leicester, Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) of The University of Hull and the Fellow and Visiting Professor of Education at The University of Teesside. In 2005 the highest academic award of Sheffield Hallam University, Doctor of the University (D.Univ.) was conferred upon him by the Chancellor, Professor Lord Robert Winston. In 2006 he became President of The School Library Association.

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Don't Tell The Teacher
Gervase Phinn
Children love nothing better than doing things they know their teacher would rather they didn’t. These poems are full of fun and a bit of cheek too.
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Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 03/08/2006
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Don't Tell The Teacher
Gervase Phinn
Age 7+ Brilliantly observed as always, family, teachers, pupils and the dreaded school inspector all leap to life in this wonderfully warm and witty, brand new, poetry collection from Gervase Phinn. New kids, disobedient deputy heads, school reports and fireworks,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/08/2006
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What I Like!
Gervase Phinn
This engaging first poetry book is absolutely the best one for the very very young. It celebrates all those things closest to a young child’s heart from food and family to animals and play. Gervase Phinn has written a corker...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 30/08/2004
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