A Different Class of Kids ; Glasgow's Schools Are Used to Bad Publicity Over Poor Exam Results and Pupil Attainment, but Every Now and Again Success Stories Emerge That Show the Positive Side of the City's Education. Here, We Look at Two Such Stories - That of Two Former Tearaways Who've Turned Their Lives Around and Are Now Mentoring Younger Pupils, and an East End Primary School That has Scooped a Coveted Green Award.

Evening Times › March 12, 2004

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IT'S hard to believe that Eastbank Primary School's "outdoor classroom" was once a barren Glasgow yard full of mud, rubble and weeds.

Now it's a haven of picnic seats and plants, where frogs live cosseted lives in a carefully constructed log pile near a pond.

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A Different Class of Kids ; Glasgow's Schools Are Used to Bad Publicity Over Poor Exam Results and Pupil Attainment, but Every Now and Again Success Stories Emerge That Show the Positive Side of the City's Education. Here, We Look at Two Such Stories - That of Two Former Tearaways Who've Turned Their Lives Around and Are Now Mentoring Younger Pupils, and an East End Primary School That has Scooped a Coveted Green Award.

Clumps of snowdrops overlook the site for a herb garden. A compost heap recycles fallen leaves and apple cores, and children can study beasties and botany, knowing they are setting standards for every school in the country.

That's just one...

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