{"id":13208,"date":"2016-04-16T13:15:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-16T12:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/?p=13208"},"modified":"2016-04-18T13:15:22","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T12:15:22","slug":"an-exceptional-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/an-exceptional-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"An Exceptional Teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/files\/2016\/04\/Tom-McBrearty-and-Bishop-Keenan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13209\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/files\/2016\/04\/Tom-McBrearty-and-Bishop-Keenan-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Tom McBrearty and Bishop Keenan\" width=\"230\" height=\"307\" \/><\/a>It is with great sadness that we heard that Mr. Thomas McBrearty died early this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Tom was Principal Teacher of Chemistry, until he retired two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>He was a highly respected teacher who loved being a classroom teacher.<\/p>\n<p>He was one of the first teachers appointed in 1984 to Saint Ninian&#8217;s High School\u00a0and his service to our school community\u00a0of pupils (past and present),\u00a0staff, and parents\u00a0 was\u00a0outstanding.<\/p>\n<p>The success of\u00a0Saint Ninian&#8217;s\u00a0owes much to the commitment of exceptional teachers such as Tom McBrearty.<\/p>\n<p>Tom&#8217;s\u00a0passion for teaching young people was inspiring to all who knew him and who had the privilege of being taught by him.<\/p>\n<p>Tom was a great family man and we remember in our prayers and thoughts Tom&#8217;s family &#8211; his wife, Patricia, and children, Laura, James and Claire, and his\u00a0new grand-daughter, Katherine Margaret.<\/p>\n<p>May the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph\u00a0watch over\u00a0them at this time.<\/p>\n<p><em>Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him, may he rest in peace, Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>May his soul, and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with great sadness that we heard that Mr. Thomas McBrearty died early this morning. Tom was Principal Teacher of Chemistry, until he retired two years ago. He was a highly<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/an-exceptional-teacher\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16187,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16187"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13210,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13208\/revisions\/13210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}