In December 2005, Education Secretary Ruth Kelly called for a shake-up of the methods used in primary schools for teaching reading to ensure that the system of using synthetic phonics is introduced & promoted as early as possible.

Teach Your Child to Read is a comprehensive reading primer based entirely on synthetic phonics. Separated into six easy-to-follow sections, it takes children step-by-step through the complexities of the English language so that they learn how to reason, analyse & work out its problems for themselves.

Easy to use & packed with stories, nursery rhymes & enchanting illustrations, this book will help ensure children have an early, trouble-free & confident mastery of reading
- their passport to a successful future.




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It's 1977 & Jack Sheffield is appointed headmaster of a small village primary school in North Yorkshire. So begins Jack's eventful journey through the school year & his attempts to overcome the many problems that face him as a young & inexperienced headmaster.

The many colourful chapters include Ruby the 20 stone caretaker with an acute spelling problem, a secretary who worships Margaret Thatcher, a villager who grows giant carrots, a barmaid/parent who requests sex lessons, & a five-year-old boy whose language is colourful in the extreme. & then there's also beautiful, bright Beth Henderson, who is irresistibly attractive to the young headmaster...

Warm, funny & nostalgic, Teacher, Teacher is a delightful read that is guaranteed to make you feel better, whatever kind of day you've had.



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It's 1977 & Jack Sheffield is appointed headmaster of a small village primary school in North Yorkshire. So begins Jack's eventful journey through the school year & his attempts to overcome the many problems that face him as a young & inexperienced headmaster.

The many colourful chapters include Ruby the 20 stone caretaker with an acute spelling problem, a secretary who worships Margaret Thatcher, a villager who grows giant carrots, a barmaid/parent who requests sex lessons, & a five-year-old boy whose language is colourful in the extreme. & then there's also beautiful, bright Beth Henderson, who is irresistibly attractive to the young headmaster...

Warm, funny & nostalgic, Teacher, Teacher is a delightful read that is guaranteed to make you feel better, whatever kind of day you've had.



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It was the biggest cycling team ever seen in Britain, supported by one of the world's most famous names. They took on the old-school Europeans in their own backyard, pushing a huge wave of support & excitement before them as they shook foundations of one of the world's most traditional sports. Then, on the brink of greatness, the house of cards folded. Now, for the first time, the full inside story of the Linda Mc Cartney Pro Cycling Team can be told. Peaks & troughs, mood swings & wheel spins, millionaires & bankrupts, they're all there. You can read the truth about the stars, water-carriers & fixers that make cycling such an enthralling game. TEAM ON THE RUN is the unique story of how the most famous vegetarian in the world came to sponsor the world's only vegetarian professional sporting team. Hear about how a small-time British outfit grew so quickly they elbowed their way into the Tour of Italy, putting a fair few Roman noses out of joint before returning home with a share of the spoils. Then delve into the mystery of how a team personally funded & endorsed by one of the world's richest men could dissolve into thin air virtually overnight, millions in the red. Taking an anecdotal ride from the team's birth in 1998 to its spectacular implosion in 2001, you will be able to picture Sir Paul Mc Cartney knocking out a quick ' Lady Madonna' for the boys on his 'old joanna' & David Mackenzie making the whole of Italy choke on its proscuitto & cabbage, until the boys limp home battered, bruised & penniless when the well runs dry. Written by the team's press officer, John Deering, TEAM ON THE RUN provides a revealing glimpse into the machinations & eye-popping realities of the cycling merry-go-round. ...

Charlie has a football mad family
- her mother gives a yellow card rather than a ticking off (because you can't argue with the
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At just six years old Tom Wilson fell prey to a predator of the worst sort. David Murphy was supposed to be his carer, instead he lifted his victims from their beds in the dead of night, & Tom was powerless to stop it.

Tom endured years of horrific abuse which led to years of silence & self-torture. He grew up to be a troubled man, stumbling through care homes, schools, borstal & eventually prison. The damage that was done to him in those early years had destroyed his life.

Then, one day, Tom read a newspaper article which unlocked the terrible memories he



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At just six years old Tom Wilson fell prey to a predator of the worst sort. David Murphy was supposed to be his carer, instead he lifted his victims from their beds in the dead of night, & Tom was powerless to stop it.

Tom endured years of horrific abuse which led to years of silence & self-torture. He grew up to be a troubled man, stumbling through care homes, schools, borstal & eventually prison. The damage that was done to him in those early years had destroyed his life.

Then, one day, Tom read a newspaper article which unlocked the terrible memories he



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