Such mischief!

Retired teacher, Edmund Irons, provides a new and amusing twist on classroom behaviour. At the outlandish Summer Skool it's the pupils that learn how to manage the classroom - using 40 specially-designed 'tactics' to slow down lessons and stress-test the education system.

Light holiday reading for all teachers and parents, Summer Skool may also guide readers new to teaching, forewarning them in a humorous way of the pupil antics they can expect during their early years. It may also act as an eye-opener to anyone outside the profession unfamiliar with a teacher's daily workload.

Behind Summer Skool's humorous approach to school politics and policies lies the serious argument that today's newly-trained teachers face tremendous workload pressures - pressures that currently result in 30% to 40% of new teachers quitting the profession within 5 years.