I was educated at St Joseph's Convent , Boarding School, Girvan in the late Fifties and Sixties.
I moved to Glasgow, in 1968, to train in the West of Scotland College of Domestic Science (affectionately known as the Dough School). I then attended Jordanhill Teacher Training College ! Life as a student was poor, cold and fun.

I returned to Girvan,The Academy, my first teaching post in August 1974. Teaching in the Seventies and Eighties was amazing, staff were fun.

During the Seventies and early Eighties, I had my best "results", I had my four wonderful daughters, without whom, I would not be where I am today- they are, in Sixties speak, "FAB".

After teaching in several South Ayrshire schools, in particular Mainholm Academy, the school which is closest to my heart, with a fantastic staff and where I met Andy, my husband of 29 years.

I was promoted in the Eighties to Loudoun Academy as APT Home Economics. I was then promoted to Ardrossan Academy on the 10th of December 1989 by Brian Cunningham the then head teacher. On arriving my first introduction to the department was a 'wall' of cereal boxes, full of S/Grade work sheets ! ( the saying at the time was " kill an H.E. teacher , save a forest").

My time here over the last twenty two and a half years, has allowed me to make many friends, that I still keep in touch with. Now the coffees and lunches will become more frequent.

It has been a privilege to have been a teacher.
Pupils and young people are a valuable 'package' and one we need to look after.