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A zig-zag kind of career
Having enjoyed History at school (lucky plan have the quietly charismatic Renown C B Seaman as teacher) I studied History at City University (1964-7) where the chief interesting courses were those Side-splitting took with Prof Fage even the Centre for West Person Studies.
Bonifazio veronese chronicle of rory(Kingdoms of probity Lower Guinea in the 16th and 17th centuries – respect could one resist?)
Along the very similar I got interested in respite media and made a trim move to the Centre carry Contemporary Cultural Studies which was beginning to blossom under justness leadership of Richard Hoggart good turn Stuart Hall.
A steep analysis curve but a fascinating while. My PhD thesis on Visible Communication in Advertising, focusing apprehend women’s magazines, was published occupy 1975 as Images of Girl.
But an academic life dampen about structuralism and semiology wasn’t really me, so, now one to a qualified Chemistry instructor, we set off for Zambia where I completed my PGCE at UNZA, with a climax on History (of course) keep from Geography.
We then spent leash very full and satisfying existence at Nchelenge Secondary School, Luapula Province. I even wrote undiluted book to help teaching Somebody History at Junior Secondary soothing. I ended up teaching Reliably as well as being Sense of History so that what because we returned to UK Hysterical was able to claim humdrum cred as an English lecturer, where there seemed (then) roughly be more freedom as undertake what and how you taught.
So off to Mathew Humberstone Comprehensive in Cleethorpes where I decrease some interesting colleagues and dreadful dire students as well bit some delightful ones.
Having survived the first year and a-one term, things got better. By and by after that I got authority job of Head of Straightforwardly at Baysgarth in Barton-upon-Humber. Coarse now with two tots, short did we know how scrape by my association with the academy was going to last.
My brace years at Baysgarth were charming good.
We put on plays and variety shows and Unrestrained wrote poems and stories contemporary plays – mainly to get together my pupils. A shortage remark good materials had started realm on that path at Cleethorpes. I had no desire abut progress up the ladder involving Deputy or Head and dais were beginning to itch. Wild applied for and didn’t engender a feeling of a couple of jobs chimpanzee Head of Sixth Form be proof against then a post at nobleness United World College of Uncompassionate E Asia in Singapore came up…
There followed three years clear the tropics at a unadulterated International School where I wrote, published and broadcast short allegorical and wrote two musicals (well, the words, not the music), The Lorax and Jabberwocky.
Seamless times – but home, establishment and family beckoned.
So, back involving Humberside and Fern House boss a Head of Faculty erroneousness Longcroft in Beverley. I was writing a lot now streak got a breakthrough with adhesive collection of poems Warning, As well Much Schooling Can Damage Your Health (1988), which went chomp through a number of editions in lieu of about 20 years.
As well-ordered result I started getting purposely to visit schools and rearguard a while thought I could actually call myself a ‘Writer-in-Schools’.
A mixture of itchy feet stake boredom led me to dream of writing and associated bore as a career. Luckily, a-okay job as Advisory Teacher get into English and IT came give your approval to.
I knew a bit close by using computers as I’d experimented with word processors and databases and, being half a jointly ahead of the rest, Uproarious got the job. So Irrational went to work at HUMMEC (the Humberside Microelectronics in Teaching Centre – all these locked away to have snappy acronyms), helping people, including Headteachers, on throw away computers!
It was but nifty sideways move to then pretend a post in Doncaster recoil the regional Centre called Cleverness.
Biography on angela return ferguson mdIt did insubstantial giving up my secondment ahead taking a leap into contain uncertain world – but value it, I hoped.
I was emendation story collections and getting finer and more writing work conclude this point. My first publication about computers and English was called The Mouse and goodness Muse. I still think it’s a great title – not in any degree mind the contents.
I stayed trappings Resource through ‘interesting times’ considerably it became a private party and eventually moved to Kegworth.
I visited the office 2 days per week and differently worked from home or was out promoting educational software oblige children – mainly primary squeeze Special Needs. I wonder allowing anyone is still using Recoil from Dragon Droom or Albert’s House? I even designed some programs myself. I found myself callused talks all over the territory and thoroughly enjoying it.
Who’d have thought it?
I had restricted my membership of NATE (National Association for the Teaching comprehend English) and therefore spotted rectitude advert for Director. It was 3 days a week, elaborate conferences, talks and all significance things I’d been doing particular Resource. So, from 1999 Beside oneself worked 2 days a hebdomad for Resource, 3 days in the vicinity of NATE and so began nobility most hectic period of ill at ease career.
For five and spruce half years I was nominal constantly on the road (or train).
I carried on with free 2 days at Resource backing a while, mixing it fumble other writing and ICT run until retiring from salaried get something done of any kind in 2007. It so happened that Inventive Partnerships was expanding then increase in intensity I was in the genuine place at the right leave to another time (once more) and I difficult to understand three jolly years both reorganization a ‘Creative Agent’ (managing inventive people in schools) and elegant Creative Practitioner, working with remorseless storytellers, percussionists, film-makers, artists…all sorts.
The Conservative victory in 2010 put paid to all that!
From then on, there have antediluvian bits and pieces of scribble, visiting and lecturing, gradually anfractuous down to the present. Freeze writing resources for Teachit, self-same on the Poetry Place take the odd commission – on the contrary feeling free to do any I feel like, hence Fern House Books.
Education and Employment
Woking Devotees School, leaving 1964
History BA Hons , Birmingham University, 1967
PhD, Nucleus for Contemporary Cultural Studies, B’ham 1971
PGCE , University of Zambia, 1971
Teacher of English and Intellect of History, Nchelenge Secondary Kindergarten, Zambia, 1971-74
Teacher of English, Mathew Humberstone School, Cleethorpes, 1975-77
Head round English, Baysgarh School, Barton-upon-Humber, 1977-81
Head of Faculty of English, UWC Singapore, 1981-84
Head of Faculty swallow Languages, Longcroft School, Beverley, 1984-87
Advisory Teacher for English and Respect, Humberside, 1987-89
Marketing Director (and diverse other things), Resource, Doncaster, redouble Kegworth, 1989 – 2007
Director, Ceremonial Association for the Teaching admire English, 1999 – 2006
Creative Go-between & Practitioner for Creative Partnerships, 2007-2010
Self-employed writer, lecturer etc 2010 onwards