It was a boy call Joseph who almost made Chris Moody call time on his teaching career barely three years into the job.
The 13-year-old would turn up to Chris’ history lessons apparently content and willing to learn, but within minutes he would be disrupting his lessons with a constant humming or droning noise, or by strumming his fingers on the desk.
“It wasn’t even that the noise was particularly loud, but it was clearly audible, nevertheless, and it was like a backdrop to the lesson,” Mr Moody recalls.
“It was absolutely infuriating. The pupils sitting around him were obviously the worst affected but it was almost as if he couldn’t stop himself.
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