I don’t know. Requiat in Pace Mr B, whoever you may have been.
Some teaching unions are seeking a ten per cent pay rise:
https://inews.co.uk/news/scotland/sc...huge-majority/
It seems likely that there will be strikes in 2019, if no pay agreement is reached with their employers. Councils are not exactly rolling in money these days, in fact some councils are already planning big spending cuts. So as far as I can see, if the teachers get their ten per cent pay rise, that will mean further cuts to council services and jobs.
I was online recently and saw the following local music link about Caithness bands in the nineteen sixties:
http://rgcgraphics.com/OPTrail2/GaleForceEight.html
I noticed Will Murray, one of my old teachers playing a trumpet. Can anyone remember him? He taught Economics and Modern Studies at Thurso High School in the 1970s. He was a first class Economics teacher, he really brought a difficult subject to life. If I remember correctly although he was from Thurso, he left Thurso High School in 1979 to go to work at a school down South.
I remember Will Murray, used to go to his classes in the huts behind the main block, a good teacher and easy to get on with. He was great with another economics/modern studies teacher, Fraser Smith, if I mind right. Saw Fraser not long after I started work in Edinburgh (late 80s, maybe): he was teaching in a List D school at the time (they don't exist any more, used to be for "difficult" pupils) and was still in touch with Will. Haven't seen either since. I'd forgotten about his trumpet-playing days, nice to see the old photo. Thanks, ecb.
I was looking at an old film called on "Scotland on Screen" called "Atom Town" at
https://scotlandonscreen.org.uk/brow...-000-002-559-c
recently, there was a bit about Thurso Technical College and there is a student at 3 minutes 56 seconds in to the film who looks a bit like one of the Science teachers whose face I remember (I can't remember his name) from Thurso High School. Can anyone else recognise the man, if so did he become a teacher at Thurso High school, please?
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News story in the Groat:
" 100th birthday celebrations for retired Wick PE teacher
A FORMER Wick High School teacher will be celebrating his 100th birthday this weekend with a special afternoon tea at the Mackays Hotel along with friends and family.
Allan Abernethy, who was born on September 22, 1919, was a physical education teacher in Wick for almost 30 years.
He taught alongside his late wife Margaret, who was also a PE teacher. ... "
https://www.johnogroat-journal.co.uk...eacher-183057/
They were my neighbour for many years, lovely family.
Hope they have a great celebration
I was sorry to see recently that one of my old teachers, Mrs Bradstreet, had passed away. She taught at Thurso High School and Wick High School for many years:
https://www.johnogroat-journal.co.uk...a123456-v1-56/
Sorry to hear that, I remember her at Thurso High in the 70s, a nice soul. Hadn't seen the announcement as the Groat doesn't reach Edinburgh till the start of the week. Thanks, ecb.
Does this funeral notice relate to Mr Stevenson who was an English teacher at Thurso High School in the 1970s?
https://www.johnogroat-journal.co.uk...a178566-v1-66/
I believe so, the spelling of Steuart's unusual, and the family details are right. Pre-Covid, I'd come home in the summer, but hadn't seen him for some years. I mind his wife had passed away shortly before. Enjoyed his English classes, and he was a real character. We're getting old, ecb.
He certainly was a character, Stumpy. I remember him saying in one of his English classes that he worked in a biscuit factory when he was a university student in Edinburgh (I think). When I went to university (also in Edinburgh) there was a biscuit factory about a mile away and when the wind was in the right direction, the smell of cooking biscuits would envelope the campus, that used to bring his English classes to mind.
" I mind his wife had passed away shortly before. ... " - I was sorry to read that his son Douglas was also mentioned in the funeral notice as having predeceased him, I slightly knew Douglas who was two years below me at school.
Does this funeral notice relate to Mr Cameron who was an Religous Education teacher at Thurso High School in the 1970s?
https://www.johnogroat-journal.co.uk...a280708-v1-08/
I think it does, I recognise the family names and I remember hearing he'd retired to the South-West. 80's a good age, but still sad to hear.
I see from the Groat that a Mrs Barbara Smith has passed away, it says that she had been a teacher. Am I correct in thinking that she taught at Pennyland Primary School back in the 1970s?
https://www.johnogroat-journal.co.uk...a297672-v1-72/
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