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Teachers at Scottish Youth Theatre’s professional development session for early years drama will soon be delivering Oscar-winning classes, writes Douglas Blane

Remember the smell of hydrogen sulphide up your nose? A generation of students missed it, but now it’s back, writes Douglas Blane

School of Sport at Bellahouston Academy creates young athletes good enough to represent Scotland in the Olympic and Commonwealth Games. But physical prowess is only part of it

The number of pupils classed as overweight or obese has dropped sharply since East Ayrshire switched to fresh, local, home-cooked food in its primary schools. Douglas Blane explains how under the new regime everyone appears to be a winner

Headteacher is not a job that can be shared – or so they told Fiona Lowson, who has made just such an arrangement work with Ruth Billingham. So what are their secrets and what do staff and pupils think?

The principal teacher of PE at Stonelaw Academy won the 2010 TES Lifetime Achievement Award. Here he reveals how his subject has changed, how to rein in the naughty kids – and why his own PE teacher did nothing to inspire him. Photography by Chris James