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Thursday, 22nd May, 2008

Published: Friday, 25th April, 2008 16:30

School's fantastic progress

By Stuart McMillan

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LAST weekend I attended the SNP spring conference in Edinburgh.

The event was an opportunity to meet up with friends and colleagues and discuss moving Scotland forward.

During conference I chaired a fringe meeting on behalf of RNIB Scotland (I am a vice-chair on the parliamentary cross party group on visual impairment).

This was an opportunity to discuss appropriate educational material being readily available for people who are partially-sighted or blind.

The Minister for Schools and Skills, Maureen Watt MSP, attended and took questions from the packed audience.

Fringe meetings at conference are an excellent way of raising the profile of campaigns and getting issues on the agenda.

On Wednesday I was a panellist at the St Stephen’s High School BBC Question Time event. St Stephen’s have once again reached the final of the BBC Question Time schools competition, being the winner of the competition in Scotland for the second year running.

It proved to be a thoroughly interesting and thought-provoking evening and I commend the pupils of St Stephen’s for all their hard work and effort.

By winning the Scottish competition two years in a row, they are a credit to themselves, their families and their school.

This has been a fantastic achievement and I hope we on the panel lived up to their high standards.

Wouldn’t it be great for Inverclyde if St Stephen’s won the BBC Question Time competition?

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