Certain traits run in the family, and that’s certainly true of the Thompsons in Aberdeenshire.
Westhill Academy head teacher Derek Thompson is proud of his two daughters, who have followed in their parents’ footsteps in training to be teachers. Mum, Margaret, is a maths teacher.
Derek, 58, has been a head teacher at Westhill Academy since 1999, and his wife, and principal teacher of mathematics, Margaret, 57, has taught at the school since 1988.
Recently, daughter Shona Thompson, 21, has been on a placement at The Gordon Schools, Huntly, and younger sister Lisa, 19, has been developing her teaching skills on placement at Dunecht Primary School, which both she and Shona attended as a pupils.
