Gervase Phinn

Gervase Phinn taught in a range of schools for fourteen years until, in 1984, he became General Adviser for Language Development in Rotherham. Four years later he was appointed Senior General Inspector for English and Drama with North Yorkshire County Council and was subsequently made Principal Adviser for the county. He is now a freelance lecturer and adviser, and Visiting Professor of Education at the University of Teesside.

He has lectured widely in this country and has published many articles on the use of English in education. He has published collections of his own plays and stories and has contributed to several anthologies; his own anthology of poems, Classroom Creatures, has also been published.

Gervase Phinn is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is widely sought after as a speaker and recently was an immediate star on Esther Rantzen's television show, Esther, appearing a second time due to public demand. He is married with four children and lives in a village just outside Doncaster. 

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Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Stars Gervase Phinn Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 4 December 2008. A delightful anthology with stories taken from Phinn's books about his teaching in the Dales but also some of his poems from his popular poetry books for kids. We... Format: Hardback - Released: 07/11/2008 Lovereading Price: £7.50 - Saving £2.50 (25%)

A Wayne in a Manger Gervase Phinn 12 stories of infant Nativity plays and Christmas message this now famous School Inspector witnessed over his years of visiting schools in the Yorkshire Dales. In fact most appear in his three delightful volumes of memoirs but are brought together... Format: Hardback - Released: 27/10/2005 Lovereading Price: £7.50 - Saving £2.50 (25%)

Up And Down In The Dales Gervase Phinn Mr Phinn is an Inspector of English in the Yorkshire Dales, he is also a great raconteur and his audience cannot help but be warmed, delighted, amused and touched by his seemingly inexhaustible fund of anecdotes. Yorkshire gave us James... Format: Paperback - Released: 31/03/2005 Lovereading Price: £6.74 - Saving £2.25 (25%)