Wednesday
May182011
"Ian was such an awesome teacher..."
Comments"The website made me smile so much. Ian was such an awesome teacher and his stories never failed to bring a smile to anyone who heard them.
The class room picture is of my 5th year Higher geography class, which was taken either in 1999 or 2000, and as it turns out we where the last Higher class that Ian ever took, which is something that at the time we all felt immensely proud of, although we where all very sad to see him go.
The second photo is again of my 5th year Higher class and was taken outside the Dynamic Earth exhibition in Edinburgh. The original plan for this trip was Ian was going to drive us all through in the school mini bus but on the day of the trip as we where about to leave the bus broke down, never one to let us down, Ian managed to get a bus booked through a local bus company, although the only bus they had left was a 52 seater coach. So for the journey there and back to had me and my class mates sitting up the back while Ian sat down the front talking to the driver!"
- Andrew McKinnon
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I've just today found out that Mr Barr passed away. Please accept my most humble condolences. Mr Barr taught me geograpy at PGHS through the years '87-'91 and he always made his classes very interesting while simultaneously gaining a lot of respect from his pupils. He was a teacher who cared very much about his pupils, who wanted them to succeed in life and his stories about his adventures never failed to make me smile.
I have very fond memories of him from school and the world is a sadder place without such a great man being in it. May he rest in peace.