But what is life actually like from day to day for someone with a disability? That's probably not an easy question to answer, not least because no two disabilities have the same impact on everyday living.

But a group of Rothesay Academy pupils and staff have been gaining a better insight than most into what it's really like - thanks to the efforts of S5 pupil and cerebral palsy sufferer Nina McDonald.

The centrepiece of 'Wheels Week', as organised by Nina, saw pupils and staff volunteer to spend a day in a wheelchair, in the hope that they might gain a new perspective on some of the realities of life for those who rely on a wheelchair to get about.

And those who took part gathered on Friday morning to discuss the experience, and to share their thoughts on what had surprised them, what they had found the hardest and any incidents which had stood out from their day.

One of the most surprising findings was that the Townhead campus building, despite having been built in accordance with today's strict rules on accessibility, didn't strike the Wheels Week participants as being all that wheelchair friendly.

Several volunteers said they were surprised at how physically hard it was to manoeuvre a wheelchair around manually all day, and how difficult it had been to do simple things such as going to the toilet.

Some said they had been surprised at how many people ignored them when they were in a wheelchair, and hadn't offered help - though others suggested that it was sometimes hard to know when to offer help and when to allow the person in the chair to try and do things themselves and retain their independence.

All, however, agreed that it had been a worthwhile and eye-opening experience, and one that could be of huge help in making not just Rothesay Academy but Bute as a whole a more disabled-friendly place.

The week's events ended on a lighter note in the form of a wheelchair basketball match in the campus gym hall on Friday lunchtime - before which two wheelchair users, Nina and her schoolmate Nino Zavaroni-Robertson, were each presented with their own sports wheelchairs by Neil's Wheels chairperson Caroline Johnston.

Before the game started, Caroline also set another goal for the campus and the local community: to raise enough money to buy a sports wheelchair for another of the campus's wheelchair users, Rothesay Primary P1 pupil Jamie McLachlan - who was among the most excited of all the basketball game's spectators!