Early Life and Education
Ennis was born in Grimethorpe, near Barnsley in Yorkshire, the son of a coal miner and educated at the Hemsworth Grammar School on Station Road (which became Hemsworth High School and since 2001, the Hemsworth Arts and Community College) before attending the Redland Teachers Training College near Bristol where he was awarded a Bachelor of Education degree in 1975. After leaving education he became a raw materials inspector with J. Lyons and Co. bakery in 1975 at Carlton, before becoming a teacher in 1976 initially at the Elston Hall Junior School in Fordhouses, Wolverhampton. In 1978, he moved to teach at the Burngreave Middle School in Sheffield, and from 1979 until his election he taught at Hillsborough Primary School in Sheffield.
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