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 a real-life classroom.

In our second episode, teacher Sammy McHugh looks back at the beloved Scottish classic Gregory’s Girl with the benefit of expert knowledge – she actually worked at the Cumbernauld school where it was filmed.