S4 Barrhead High School pupil Brooke Robinson chatting with Paul Wheelhouse MSP, Minister for Community Safety and Legal Affairs. 

Brooke is part of the ‘Looking Forward, Not Back’ project, which is a joint initiative between Barrhead High, St. Luke’s High and East Renfrewshire Council’s Young Persons Services department.

The pupils have been learning about the historical background to sectarianism and about how it has impacted on Scottish life.  Some of them attended a national conference in Stirling last Thursday as representatives of the group. They had to make a presentation about the work they have been doing over the last nine months and had the opportunity of meeting the minister.

Our pupils represented both themselves and the school very well and made a great impression.