PUPILS are to set up a permanent memorial to remember a popular teacher who died after spending nearly 33 years teaching at the same school.
Jim Wyllie – a teacher of craft, design and technology at Leith Academy – died at the Western General aged 53 after suffering a stroke last weekend.
He had spent his entire working life at the Academy, where news of his death left pupils in tears.
A Facebook page was set up in his honour by pupils and plans are now under way for a permanent memorial. More than 850 people have already signed up to the page and left messages of condolence.
Mr Wyllie was treated for a brain haemorrhage in February which left him blind. He was later transferred to... read more