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Scottish Traveller Education Programme
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Positive Images – Supporting Curriculum for ExcellenceSTEP’s aim in highlighting ‘positive images’ of and 'good practice' with Scotland’s Travelling families; Gypsies/Travellers, Showmen’s families, New Travellers, and more recently, European Roma, is to counterbalance the frequently negative media images of these families and their cultures. Curriculum for Excellence provides a way of including Travelling children’s and young people’s diversity within education. Teachers of Travelling children and young people welcome Curriculum for Excellence as its flexibility allows for their learning experiences and outcomes to become part of mainstream education. STEP keeps regular contact with teachers of Travelling children and is aware of many examples of 'good practice' in schools, and in other areas. STEP is really keen to hear from you (whether a teacher, a parent or young person) about your learning experiences and outcomes. STEP hopes you will take this opportunity to present your ‘good practice’ with Travelling children and young people. By presenting e.gs. of ‘good practice’ of your working with Travelling families the website can show what an education authority’s teachers and youth workers are achieving with children and young people with interrupted learning. We keep in contact with teachers of Travelling children and young people to ensure that their ‘good practice’ is acknowledged and celebrated. Contact Pauline Padfield at 0131 651 6440 or email pauline.padfield@ed.ac.uk or any of STEP’s staff.
Parental Engagement and GIRFEC – good practice with Gypsy/Traveller families. Download ‘Literacy and numeracy through sewing and craft with Gypsy/Travellers’ (PDF format)“It’s a Wonderful Life”: Showmen’s Children and Families Exhibition at Thorntree Primary SchoolSouth Lanarkshire’s Gypsy Traveller Creative Learning Group at Universal Connections LarkhallCooking in a College – Gypsy/Travellers making changes in Inverness, describes one way of responding to the life long learning needs of Gypsy/Traveller communitiesWe are the Gypsy Kids - Gypsy/Traveller Video Project, and a tribute to Rachel HiltonPositive Practice - well done Fife!"Past and Present - The Travelling Way of Life - a Gypsy/Traveller Child's View"Gypsy/Traveller child attends art classesLaptop Computers for Occupational (Fairground) Traveller Pupils |
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| STEP: Scottish Traveller Education Programme tel: 0131 651
6444; fax: 0131 651 6511
page updated 5 September 2010 |