Kinning Park Nursery School, which dated from the 1860s and was attended by 80 part-time and eight full-time pupils, was gutted on the night of 26 November in a suspected arson attack.
Children were relocated two weeks later. Part-time pupils were moved to an old school building at the nearby Kinning Park Complex, a former school building used for community activities, and children who attended full-time were placed at a voluntary sector nursery next door.
t Dobie, the council's senior education officer for pre-fives, said, 'The initial feeling was pretty awful and it was a horrible time for everyone. We had the choice of splitting the children up across the city or trying to keep them all together in the local area. The children were very resilient and adapted, but the adults took longer to get over it.'
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