Cheryl Peebles
Senior Features Writer, Schools and Family at The Courier and Evening Telegraph (Dundee)
Senior features writer (schools and family) The Courier and Evening Tele. Scottish Specialist Reporter of the Year 2024. Enthusiastic (but not speedy) runner.
Articles
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5 days ago |
thecourier.co.uk | Cheryl Peebles
“Walk with purpose,” Lee Walls tells us, demonstrating a confident stride. “Or like you’re rushing for a bus or really need a pee!”I’m among a very nervous group of people preparing for a firewalk and instructor Lee Wall’s humour is relaxing us. As we arrived for our coaching a fire was roaring outside. There are some anxious looking faces around the room. Including mine. I’d been trying my hardest over the last few days not to think of this moment.
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6 days ago |
thecourier.co.uk | Cheryl Peebles
Alex Johnstone has been a competitive bodybuilder for 10 years and reckons perfecting poses is the toughest challenge. The 34-year-old is performing some bicep curls as he prepares to go on stage at the Mr and Miss Scotland contest in Glenrothes, Fife. Elsewhere Shelley Morgan, also 34, is battling to control her nerves ahead of her first competition.
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1 week ago |
thecourier.co.uk | Cheryl Peebles
It’s all fun and games to little Hannah Lyle and her friend Nathanael Burke. But for the students and academics watching them from behind a two-way mirror their play has an important function. Located in the university, the nursery appears the same as any other. There is a reading corner, a water table, a construction area and a den. It’s open to families in the university and wider community. Behind the mirrors in Psychology KindergartenBut behind a mirrored wall is an observation suite.
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2 weeks ago |
thecourier.co.uk | Cheryl Peebles
A Fife school has made huge gains to reach the top two in The Courier’s secondary schools league of 2025. Dunfermline High School was surpassed only by Dunblane High School in our ranking of 52 schools in Angus, Dundee, Fife, Perth and Kinross and Stirling. Schools are ranked on the percentage of leavers with five or more Higher qualifications (or equivalent). An impressive 60% of pupils to leave Dunfermline High in 2023/24 have five or more Highers (or equivalent) compared to 43% the year before.
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2 weeks ago |
thecourier.co.uk | Cheryl Peebles
Dundee Rugby Club hopes shifting youth training to new pitches at Drumgeith Community Campus will boost its squads. The club wants to agree lets for the floodlit 3G pitches at the £100 million campus which includes new Greenfield Academy. Director of rugby Colin Sangster says the new facility would make training more attractive to young players and less susceptible to inclement weather. Youth players currently train on the grass at Alloway Place.
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Jon will be a familiar face among @dundeeunitedfc fans and his guide dog Sam widely missed. His book about their relationship and tour of SPFL stadiums comes out May 1 @PitchPublishing @alanftemple @JimSpenceDundee https://t.co/PIcBtTC5ZC
I've read Taylor Swift's poetic and metaphor-rich lyrics can be used to teach English. Any teachers in Courier country doing so? Hope it's not folklore. Speak now and tell me if Taylor's made it into your classroom.
It was prom night last night for @BerthaParkHigh's first cohort of S6 leavers. We had a photographer there and here are the results. Good luck Class of 2024 in whatever paths you take! https://t.co/fvUYiXzYaT via @thecourieruk
