EAST END school pupils are aiming to make their entire community active.

Sports leaders from St Mungo's Academy have been working in the area to encourage uptake of sport.

And they celebrated their achievements with a day-long Olympic-themed event at Glasgow's Emirates Arena - St Mungo’s Academy Get Set for Community Action.

PE teacher Fiona Sullivan said: "The whole event has been organised by our young people - from fundraising, to hiring the venue and carrying out risk assessments, they've planned the entire thing by themselves.

"And they have been promoting the event to around 200 primary and ASL children who came along on the day.

"Our sports leaders were interested in finding out an answer to 'what can you do in the east end during the holidays and after school?' and then finding out the answer for other young people."

The sports leadership group has been working with ASL and primary schools to encourage younger pupils to take part in sport.

And to mark their efforts at levels five and six of the sports leader course, they took over the Emirates Arena for a day themed on the Rio 2016 Olympics and Paralympics.

Some 200 pupils from local schools took part in basketball, athletics – sprint and jump, dance, tennis, badminton, boccia, gymnastics/air track and wheelchair rugby.

Local Community groups such as Active East, Peek, Glasgow City basketball and Shettleston Harriers also got involved.

The event is the launch of a Get Set for Community in Action project where the school will aim to link with the local community over the coming months.

As well as the laucnh, another highlight of the year-long course saw pupils recently travelled down to Loughborough University to take part in an inclusion and disabled sport seminar.

Fiona added: "I have seen a real change in the young people who have taken part in the course.

"You have some that when they started in first year they wouldn't put their hand up to ask a question in class and now they're leading younger pupils in sport and they're doing public speaking.

"Their confidence has gone through the roof.

"It's also really exciting for us as a school to link up with community clubs and take theses partnerships further.

"We want to raise levels of good health in the school and the wider community as well as giving our young people life long leadership skills."