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Still Game Isa lands new job as a teacher and reckons Jack and Victor would say 'poor weans'

Still Game's Isa has gone back to school - as a teacher.

Craiglang's biggest gossip is teaching kids with additional support needs after landing her latest role.

Actor Jane McCarry, 50, from Glasgow played Isa Drennan in the classic Scots comedy.

But unknow to many, she's kept her hand in as a secondary school teacher for 20 years.

Now she's thrilled to land her new job at Craigmarloch School in Port Glasgow.

Kids have already recognised her from appearing at the panto in nearby Beacon Arts Centre in Greenock, where she alongside fellow Still Game star Mark Cox, who played Tam Mullen.

Jane said: "Whatever job you do, panto, Still Game, or teaching, it's important to have a laugh and smile every day.

"It's so important to enjoy what you do.

"I've been a secondary teacher for 20 years and have been in and out of schools all the time, until Covid came.

"I've always done both to survive.

Jane McCarry has taught for 20 years (Daily Record)

"I love Inverclyde - every year I look forward to working with Pauline Kane and the team at the Beacon, and being in the rehearsal rooms upstairs and watching the ships sail up and down.

"It's a beautiful wee theatre to play."

It was through Marie Byrne, a panto chaperone and whose husband David works at the school, that she found out about the vacancy.

Jane said: "Marie told me there was a supply job at Craigmarloch.

"She told me it was a wonderful school and that I would love it here.

"Lots of kids know me as Isa but also know me as a bad witch from the Beacon pantomime.

"Some ask me questions about being on TV and the panto.

"I am having great fun here with the staff and pupils.

"All the staff are so lovely and they work as a team."

Jane also joked about what Still Game leads Jack and Victor would make of her teaching job, adding: "I think they would say: 'poor weans, having to listen to Isa'."

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