There are countless depictions of schools and teaching in the movies. In each episode of Film Schools: what we learn when cinema goes to school – a special Tes Scotland Podcast series for the summer – we speak to a teacher about a memorable cinematic depiction of a school and its staff. We look at what it gets right and wrong about teachers and schools – and whether any of the teaching approaches on display are remotely applicable in their own classroom.

In our third episode, teacher Athole McLauchlan talks about the classic documentary Être et Avoir, which immerses viewers in the ups and downs of life of a tiny French village school.