School children’s winning stained glass window design unveiled

Published: 9 July 2013

A stained glass window design created by pupils from Blairdardie Primary School in Knightwood was unveiled at the University of Glasgow on 25th June.

A stained glass window design created by pupils from Blairdardie Primary School in Knightwood was unveiled at the University of Glasgow on 25th June.

The design was the winning entry in a special award as part of the Molendinar awards held earlier this year at the City Chambers.

The school children won a special award given by the University of Glasgow’s residential services. Their entry represents a colourful visualisation of Glasgow to welcome International visitors coming to the University.‌Class from Blairdardie Primary School, with the winning design

Neil Campbell, Director of Student Residences said “Blairdardie’s Primary Three class have done a fantastic job of creating a vibrant and fun stain glass that I’m sure will be enjoyed by all for years to come.  We have over 25,000 international students that come from all over the world.  We are delighted to have it hanging in the Fraser Building which is used by many of them to find out information about the services the university offers.”

Councillor Stephen Curran, Executive Member for Education and Young People said: "The Molendinar Awards initiative is a great opportunity for our schools and every year more and more take part. We have some very creative and talented young people in our schools which this particular design illustrates.  The pupils from Blairdardie should be very proud of themselves.  They have created a lovely piece of work which will now be seen by the thousands of students studying here from all over the world. Well done."

Primary three class from Blairdardie Primary School in Knightswood are coming with Class teacher Erica Hughes to the University at 1100 to see their winning entry unveiled.

This is the third year of the awards which are named after the Molendinar Burn – the site which St Mungo founded his church in the sixth century and was the start of the development of the city of Glasgow.

 

 


For more information contact Cara MacDowall on 0141 330 3683 or email cara.macdowall@glasgow.ac.uk 

First published: 9 July 2013

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