Scottish Traveller Education Programme
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Positive Images – Towards Curriculum for ExcellenceIn 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.
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 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 |
| STEP: Scottish Traveller Education Programme tel: 0131 651
6444; fax: 0131 651 6511
page updated 8 July 2010 |