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This Is Your Own Time You’re Wasting

Classroom Confessions, Calamities and Clangers
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This Is Your Own Time You're Wasting offers a humorous and heart-warming glimpse into the challenges and quirks of primary school teaching during and after the pandemic. Podcast hosts and teachers Lee and Adam Parkinson, known as the Two Mr Ps, share hilarious anecdotes from their classrooms, from the trials of online teaching to the unpredictable antics of young pupils.
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Ideal for parents, teachers, and fans of light-hearted memoirs who appreciate a candid and funny perspective on education and lockdown experiences.

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

The side-splittingly hilarious and heart-warming new book from your favourite teacher duo and hosts of Two Mr Ps in a Pod(cast)

The SUNDAY TIMES bestseller from the hilarious teacher duo and podcast hosts, the Two Mr Ps

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Preorder the new Mr Ps book How to Survive the School Year – out 29/08/24.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

The side-splittingly hilarious and heart-warming book from your favourite teacher duo and hosts of Two Mr Ps in a Pod(cast).

Remember the distant days of lockdown and those futile attempts to homeschool distracted, disinterested kids?

Parents rejoiced to send them back to school, while teachers prepared to face them all again … Five. Days. A. Week! Coming out the other side of the pandemic years, podcast sensations Lee and Adam Parkinson – aka the Two Mr Ps – bring you the most hilarious, ridiculous anecdotes from inside our primary schools.

Join in on the classroom antics as they share the unexpected pitfalls of online teaching, all the reasons you need a strong stomach to take on Early Years and why not every household item makes a suitable Harry Potter wand …

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780008508388

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 21 July 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: HarperCollins

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 34.0mm

Width: 141.0mm

Height: 222.0mm

Weight: 440g

Pages: 336

About the Author

Lee and Adam Parkinson are two brothers from Manchester who work in primary education. Together in 2018, they set up the hugely successful Two Mr Ps in a Pod(cast), sharing light-hearted and hilarious tales from the classroom and reminiscing on their own school days. The podcast has since amassed over 3 million listens with sold-out live shows across the UK. Put A Wet Paper Towel on It is their first book.

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