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Positive Images – Towards Curriculum for Excellence

In the light of Curriculum for Excellence, STEP is amending the ’Positive Images’ page. Teachers of Travelling children and young people have welcomed Curriculum for Excellence as a way of including Travelling children’s and young people’s diversity within education.

STEP’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.

STEP keeps regular contact with teachers of Travelling children and is aware of many examples of 'good practice' in schools, and in other areas.

  • By working with you, STEP hopes to present examples of Curriculum for Excellence with Travelling children and young people.

  • By putting together a case study of an aspect of your work with Travelling families we will use the web to show what can be done with some input by an education authority’s teachers and youth workers.

STEP is really keen to hear from you (whether a teacher, a parent or young person) about your experiences and outcomes with Curriculum for Excellence. We will keep in contact with teachers or Travellers and schools to ensure that such good work is acknowledged.

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 School

South Lanarkshire’s Gypsy Traveller Creative Learning Group at Universal Connections Larkhall

Cooking in a College – Gypsy/Travellers making changes in Inverness, describes one way of responding to the life long learning needs of Gypsy/Traveller communities

We are the Gypsy Kids - Gypsy/Traveller Video Project, and a tribute to Rachel Hilton

Positive Practice - well done Fife!

"Past and Present - The Travelling Way of Life - a Gypsy/Traveller Child's View"

Gypsy/Traveller child attends art classes

Laptop Computers for Occupational (Fairground) Traveller Pupils