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Learning together

Paisley's Castlehead High School was a class apart in this year's Herald Society Awards as Young People's Project of the Year.

There were many reasons why judges were blown away by the school’s paired reading scheme, but Jackie Killeen, director of the Big Lottery Fund in Scotland summed it up. “The concept of young people helping one another was fantastic. It was carried by young people in a way others weren’t.”