Dancing on the Tables

When seven year old Pamela consistently forgets her PE kit, her teacher comes up with a novel approach to change her behaviour: he will dance on the tables if she remembers the next time. Drawing on thirty-eight years in primary school classrooms as a teacher and, for the last eighteen years, as a headteacher, Bartholomew Peters shares many of the amusing and sometimes strange things children say and do, as well as describing some of the fixes he and his colleagues have found themselves in....