ANNETTE Street Primary has won a top award from the First Minister's Reading Challenge 2018.

The school has a high proportion of pupils who have English as a second language, making the prize all the more impressive.

Youngsters were the national winners for School Reading Journey.

In 17 categories there was only one other Glasgow school to be listed.

Scotstoun Primary took the prize for Pupil Reading Journey, thanks to the efforts of P4 Eden McKinnon.

Ms Sturgeon said: “I’d like to congratulate all the schools and pupils who have taken part in this year’s challenge.

"They’ve all worked really hard over the past year and are a credit to their local communities."

Winners were announced at an event in Edinburgh and include pupils from Killermont Primary School in East Dunbartonshire.

The First Minister’s Reading Challenge was launched in 2016 for Primaries four to seven and following the success of the first year was expanded to include all primary age pupils.

Scottish Book Trust, the national charity changing lives through reading and writing, delivered the reading initiative on behalf of the Scottish Government and every school in Scotland was invited to take part.

This year almost 1000 schools, from 29 local authorities, registered for the challenge.

Marc Lambert, CEO of Scottish Book Trust, said: “Reading for pleasure boosts children’s creativity, mental well-being and performance at school and beyond, and is one of the most important things we can instil in children.

"These awards recognise some amazing work from schools and pupils who have shown a real commitment to building and sustaining a reading culture.”

Following the success of the second year and the expansion to include lower primary, the First Minister’s Reading Challenge is being extended further and at the beginning of the new term the challenge will be open to secondary schools, libraries and community groups.