In June the Determined to Succeed team from Glasgow City Council launched a Speedway Challenge initiative and since then 200 children from nine different primary schools in the North Glasgow area have taken part.

The scheme has given the youngsters the opportunity to be involved in language, maths and ICT tasks based on speedway.

The children have also learned tips on how to produce PowerPoint presentations and their final 6 slide presentations entered into a competition - the winners being announced on Monday night (8 October) at a special graduation night.

Gary Condie, Enterprise Education Officer for Determined to Succeed said today: “This exciting venture has been great fun for the youngsters and has see the sport of speedway used as a way to motivate pupils, increase their self esteem and become more effective learners - but above all raise achievement.

“The PowerPoint competition has been very close and the work the youngsters have produced has been wonderful and far beyond all our expectations.”

Australian speedway riders Trent Leverington and Robert Kziesak who have met the children at workshops over the last few months will be at the presentation on Monday evening.

^{Winners were}

^{Saracen Primary and}

^{Ruchill AU winning PSPs from FSM Outdoor Advertising}

^{Ruchill Primary  and}

^{St Kevins School winning £75 from John Lewis}

^{The other 16 children won MP3 players from Glasgow Tigers Promotion and the STARs Speedway Supporters Group}