A SHAMED prankster pupil was sent home in disgrace from an Inverclyde school after dropping a STINK BOMB within the building.

The sixth-year student was caught up in a flurry of pre-exam high jinks at Port Glasgow High, which is said to have included the smearing of fish on staircase bannisters.

Sources at the school said that classmates hurled egg and flour mix around the £44 million pound campus and also sprinkled glue and glitter on the floor.

But the fun stopped when the putrid stench of the stink bomb began to fill the air before the culprit was caught and told to leave the premises.
Unimpressed Port Glasgow councillor David Wilson today spoke out against the end-of-year capers.

He told the Telegraph: “I think this shows utter disrespect for a £44 million pound school.

“If you are going to do this, go to Coronation Park or Birkmyre and throw the flour and eggs on the grass. Don’t mess up a brand new school.

“There is a time and a place for this kind of behaviour.”
Depute Provost Mr Wilson added: “I would though trust the head teacher to act in an appropriate way.”

The Telegraph understands that the stink bomber was told to go home and ‘reflect’ on his ‘silly actions’. 

One source said: “It was a bit crazy. Fish were smeared on the bannisters, which was smelly enough.

“Then people were walking over glue and glitter on the floor and getting the soles of their shoes covered in it.

“But when the stink bomb was dropped from the top floor the stench was just horrendous.”

This is not the first time sixth year pupils in Inverclyde have found themselves in trouble because of the traditional end-of-year larks.

Previously at Clydeview Academy a first year boy was taken to hospital for treatment after he had an adverse reaction to the egg and flour mix thrown around the school canteen.

In the end, dozens of pupils were ordered out of the school for the day.

Before that Inverclyde Academy took a hardline when pupils had a water fight outside the building to mark the end of their school year.

A number of pupils ended up barred from the school prom, including a former dux of the school.

Inverclyde Council played down the latest round of pranks and praised the discipline in local schools.

A spokesman for the local authority said: “Our schools have discipline policies in place which work every day of the year, not just the last day of school. 

“Young people should celebrate this milestone but clearly within the bounds of what is acceptable, particularly in a school setting. The vast majority of our young people do that.

“By focussing on antics of a very tiny minority, we lose sight of the fact that schools handle disciplinary situations as the circumstances arise and do that well and our young people are working hard, doing well in their studies and exams, and they are good citizens within our community.”