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On the move with Scotland’s Travelling Communities:
Supporting learning and teaching; Connectinglearners and teachers.
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Gypsy and Traveller Communities across the UK
• Scottish Travellers - Gypsies/Travellers Scotland’s oldest indigenous ethnic minority
• Irish Travellers, Romani or Romanichals from England & South Wales
• European Roma Gypsies - 20th & 21st centuries (EAL)
• Occupational Travellers; Fair and Show Travellers, circus Travellers
• New Travellers
• People not belonging to any of above who live in caravans
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Where do Travellers live?
• Local authority sites, private sites, roadside encampments, yards and houses
• Many Traveller families live in houses for all or part of the year, but retain their diverse cultural identities and family-based lifestyles
Where do Travellers live?
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How many Gypsy and Traveller pupils attend Scottish schools?
• National statistics on ethnicity
• Unreliable figures due to non- disclosure
• Why Traveller families hide their cultural identities?
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Gypsies and Travellers barriers to education
• Many non-Travellers still view discrimination of Travellers as socially acceptable racism
• Shared feature of differentiated histories, cultures and family based life-styles - mobility-experience of interrupted learning
• Traveller pupils’ learning needs are as diverse as many mainstream pupil population
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• Standards in Scotland’s Schools etc. Act (2000) –entitlement to ‘a school education’
• National Guidance- Inclusive Education for Gypsies and Travellers (2003)
• Additional Support for Learning Act (2004) & Code of Practice (2006)
• HMIe’s HGIOS -Taking a closer look at Inclusion and Equality: Meeting the needs of Gypsies and Travellers (2005)
• Race Relations (Amendment) Act (2000)
Highly mobile children may find it difficult to access a ‘school-based’ education
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Encouraging families to send children & young people to school?
Outreach working with families to make and maintain trust between families and:– Designated teachers (also called
dedicated)– Site managers– School staff– Colleagues from other agencies offering
supportInteragency working within a local
authority and across local authority boundaries
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The long way round – a case study
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Good communications are vital!
• Designated staff– accompany school staff to home visits– accompany parents to meetings at school
• School staff- establish direct communications between Traveller family and school staff- Travellers may not read or understand written communications - including school booklets - Pick up the phone - be a good listener -respect privacy of information - regularly update emergency contacts
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Multi-agency working
• Clearly identify role• Issues that impact on education• Facilitate access to information and
services• Networks of support – local and national• Sharing of information• Transference of trust
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Traveller parents’ concerns about schools
• Personal experience • Their own lack of literacy• Security of children away from family• Social exclusion, bullying and racism• Different values and expectations • Cultural differences
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Enrolment - flexible beginnings
Offer help (sensitively) if required with the following:
• Which school? • Transport from site• Form filling for uniforms for meals• Attendance and absence (STEP DVD)• Let family know that school staff
understand about travelling lifestyles • & that child’s return is welcomed by the
school
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Curriculum for Excellence
• Be aware of and celebrate skills valued by Gypsy and Traveller families
• Many pupils within their own communities are well on their way:
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successful learners
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confident individuals
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responsible citizens
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effective contributors
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Assessment is for Learning - reflecting
achievement
Would children from non-Traveller
communities be able to identify • A lurcher• A Weippert• A screeve
• Standard formal testing often inappropriate as culturally irrelevant & insufficiently flexible
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Mismatch between learning priorities & skills
• Formal literacy/numeracy - shaped by age/stage approaches - clash with Oral cultures
• Interrupted learning or learning difficulties?• Ask a pupil “what do you feel you need to learn?”• Children learning formal skills at a later stage may
progress quickly - prioritise • Place according to ability rather than level of
attainment - RELAX many ways to record success!!!
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Inclusive educational approaches
Class teachers support? • Colleagues at school• Learning Support• Support Services - designated teacher• Scottish Traveller Education Programme • Traveller Education Network (TENET)• LTScotland - Inclusive education • HMIe
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Inclusive educational strategies
• Relax and allow a settling in period• Assessment is for Learning - specialist
resources e.g. IRAG• Flexible placing & timetabling, regardless
of age/stage• Working with others - buddies • explaining the school day, scribing, helping
with reading instructions, paired reading, sharing ICT literacy support - just what you would do for all pupils
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Children feel included if lifestyles are reflected in class room resources & displays
• Resources representing Gypsy and Traveller cultures available for all pupils
• Resources to meet differences between age and stage available for all pupils with interrupted learning
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Homework - additional support needs?
Offer same opportunities as for other pupils, BUT -
• Be understanding about non-completion– Family not able to support– May not have resources for homework
• Opportunity for school to be creative in use of Additional Support for Learning - good practice- Review homework help for all pupils- Homework club on site?
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Alternative provision
• Learning in out of school settings• Avoidance of racism – safe environment• Learning seen as relevant• Limited provision – dependant on time
provision and resources• Maintain contact – lifelong learning• Access to accreditation?
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Distance learning - ICT supported futures
• Gypsy and Traveller learners (and others with interrupted learning)
• Gypsy & Traveller families• class and designated teachers of Travellers
(TENET)• ICT development and support officers • Education Authorities• GLOW services • LTScotland• Scottish Traveller Education Programme• Voluntary Organisations supporting Travellers• Scottish Government
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Useful websites
www.scottishtravellered.net(STEP’s website providing contacts, networks, publications, papers, cultural information and resources for teachers)
www.natt.orgProfessional organisation of teachers of Travellers sharing good practice, information and resources.
www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006/02/28083932/0 (for statistics)