Mr Majeika (Mr Majeika, 1)

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With Mr Majeika in charge, suddenly life at school become much more exciting - there's even a magic-carpet ride to Buckingham Palace! Moira accepted that he was gay and allowed him to bring men home for sex, [13] despite homosexual acts being illegal in England and Wales until the passing of the Sexual Offences Act 1967 16 years after their marriage. Mr Majeika is a warm, funny and inventive story for children aged 8 to 11 to read in the classroom or at home. Hamish, the class pest, soon finds that he has more than met his match in the wizard-turned-teacher.

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It also includes two of the feature films he made with James Robertson Justice The Fast Lady and Father Came Too! Other Mr Majeika stories include Mr Majeika and the Haunted Hotel, Mr Majeika Joins the Circus, Mr Majeika and the School Caretaker and Mr Majeika Vanishes. He wrote plays for radio and theatre and founded the children's drama group The Mushy Pea Theatre Company. This is possibly due to ongoing rights issues after the production company, TVS, dropped out of the ITV network in 1992 and subsequently went through a number of take-overs. He later stated that he had wanted to retire after his spectacular hour-long shows had been cancelled and that the move to children's television was a "purely financial" arrangement.

Humphrey Carpenter lived nearly all his life in Oxford and was a broadcaster, author, prolific biographer and keen jazz musician. The stories are not all that well written, but there is a certsain charm associated with the series.

At home materials Year 3 Week 1 to 4 - Herne Junior School

Humphrey Carpenter is a keen musician, who founded the jazz band Vile Bodies, which is still resident at the Ritz Hotel in London. Baxter remained a great favourite on the Scottish pantomime circuit, especially at the King's Theatre, Glasgow, up until his retirement in 1992. The reading is followed by a series of activities aiming to develop children’s retrieval, explanation, inference, prediction and summarising skills.Five years before then, Baxter had been arrested for cottaging and contemplated suicide for fear of scandal causing an end to his career. It was very mysterious because Hamish bigmore keeps having chocolate for lunch instead of the food in his lunch bag. He teaches Class 3 and everybody in the class really likes him apart from Hamish Bigmore, the class nuisance who is very naughty.

Mr Majeika (Chapter 1) English Home Learning Y3 Week 3 – Mr Majeika (Chapter 1)

He has written several plays for theatre and radio and founded the Mushy Pea Theatre Group, a children's drama group based in Oxford, which premiered his Mr. He thereafter astounds them with magical trickery which bring lessons to life, whether it is providing chips during dinner for all the children, or turning the nasty Hamish Bigmore into a frog for his insolence. Baxter sought to maintain the secrecy around his sexual orientation, with his biography describing how he had taken legal action over the posthumous publication of Kenneth Williams' diaries after Williams, a long-time friend, died in 1988.He has been a wizard for years and has forgotten most of his spells, so he wants to be an ordinary teacher and asks three boys to help him. The alien teacher Mr Majeika was played by well known British comedian/impressionist/actor Stanley Baxter. Baxter appeared in a number of films, including Geordie (1955), Very Important Person (1961), The Fast Lady (1962), Crooks Anonymous (1962) and Father Came Too!