Local teacher Edmund Irons details the tricks of the trade when it comes to classroom antics

Summer Skool is Edmund Irons humorous story of a group of misbehaving schoolboys inspired by his own teaching experiences.During the first year of his teaching, Edmund was a supply teacher, working in over a dozen schools from Redhill to Sevenoaks, from East Grinstead to Crowborough. ‘I found that, no matter which school I taught at, the pupils seemed to use the same tactics during lessons to distract them from learning.’ It was the idea that they must be learning these tactics from somewhere that gave rise to the book, Summer Skool. Having spent over 20 years working in advertising,