Silent Night
Number 8 in the Series
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It’s 1984 and Jack Sheffield returns to Ragley village school for his eighth year as headteacher.
Four-year-old Dallas Sue-Ellen Earnshaw uses some choice vocabulary, Ruby the Caretaker finds a special friend, Nora Pratt hosts a belly dancing evening in her Coffee Shop and eight-year-old Rosie Sparrow leads the school choir to television fame.
It’s the time of the miners’ strike, Trivial Pursuit, Band Aid, Moonboots, cabbage patch dolls . . . and a final goodbye to the pound note.
Meanwhile Jack is finally faced with the most difficult decision of his life.
Reviews
“I have read all the Ragley Books, I love them, if you are a teacher or headteacher who started their career in the 80's you will love these books. A real blast from the past , reflective,funny and so true to children and schools.”
— Amazon Review
“Jack Sheffield's books are a wonderful look back at times gone by. He evokes the seventies and eighties with the news of the day and all the things that made life good for young children. The stories of the school and the children are so heartwarming and funny. ”
— Amazon Review