Memories of teaching in Primary schools
James Ellis
- Regions:
- England, Surrey
- Notice Period:
- Short (maybe less than one month's notice)
- Type:
- Professional /Teaching . Hobby/streptocarpus culture
- Fee:
- Paid: £100
- Category:
- Uncategorised
- Updated:
- 13th November 2026
All the talks are of true incidents that happened during my career teaching in Primary schools in some of the most deprived areas of Leicester. They are a miscellany of tales from a teacher's view of life in schools that present problems that are not only academic but also cultural and social. They are about schools that often ill equipped and in need of repair, of schools where the children are ill fed {if at all } and often poorly clad, where language development is limited and cultural and social differences cause difficulties and sometimes divisions. Yet there is care and humour, fun and enjoyment and safety.
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Although I qualified as a PE teacher at Loughborough College, I taught in primary schools in central Leicester for over thirty years as a class teacher and latterly as a head. Most of the teaching was in schools in deprived areas of the city which presented numerous social, cultural and academic problems for the children and staff. All the talks are of true incidents, humorous, distressing and worrying.
From 1984 I have grown streptocarpus, exhibited at numerous shows, propagated and hybridised my own varieties. I have given numerous illustrated talks to clubs round them Midlands but have now returned to Surrey where I spent much of my wartime youth as a type of family evacuee.
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