Our day out

... Willy Russell was born in Liverpool in 1947. At school Willy was a failure, which made it harder for him to become a writer. When he left school with one English O' level he became a hairdresser. After that had found a temporary job stacking boxes in a warehouse. He returned to school and got A' Level while training to be a teacher. He wrote and produced his first stage play. After 18 months the success of his musical 'John, Paul, George, Ringo and Bert' enabled him to write full time resulting in many stage, television and screen plays including 'Stags and Hens', 'One for the road', 'Educating Rita', 'One summer' and 'Shirley Valentine'. The types of pupils that attend the innercity secondary school are children with a poor lifestyle and with unemployment in the family. I think the school is an old building with very little modern resources and

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