{"id":6504,"date":"2025-01-08T11:26:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T11:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/uigschool\/?p=6504"},"modified":"2025-02-12T21:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T21:55:11","slug":"foghlam-gaidhlig-gaelic-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/uigschool\/2025\/01\/08\/foghlam-gaidhlig-gaelic-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Foghlam G\u00e0idhlig\/Gaelic Education"},"content":{"rendered":"

Below you will find some information on what Gaelic Medium Education is and the Comhairle’s ‘Gaelic First’ Policy. Please refer to our Gaelic Education Policy for full information on how Gaelic Education is valued within Sgoil \u00d9ige. Gaelic Policy Jan 25<\/a><\/p>\n

FOGHLAM TRO MHEADHAN NA G\u00c0IDHLIG (GAELIC MEDIUM EDUCATION)<\/strong><\/p>\n

G\u00e0idhlig language and culture are key to the local community and identity. As a school, we embrace and promote the language and culture in a wide variety of ways. The majority of our pupils are taught through the medium of G\u00e0idhlig, and those who are not join their peers in experiencing aspects of the culture and learning the language. Sgoil \u00d9ige is a \u2018Gaelic Rich\u2019 environment where Gaelic can be seen throughout our school wall displays, celebrating children\u2019s work and achievements, and can be heard across the school through whole-school events and a broad range of experiences across the four contexts of learning. We encourage all our children to explore and experience the G\u00e0idhlig language out with the classroom and school environment as much as possible. We have strong links with our local Comunn na G\u00e0idhlig (CnaG) officer who runs a local Sradagan youth club and supports the school with a range of Gaelic activities such as sports festivals and FilmG. Promoting the Gaelic community of our school is vitally important and we ensure this through Gaelic Singing lessons for all, a Gaelic Ceilidh band and participation in local Gaelic sports activities and the M\u00f2d. Our Comataidh na G\u00e0idhlig have recently started up a \u2018Cupan agus Ceilidh\u2019 G\u00e0idhlig Community Caf\u00e9 which we hope to run once a month to bring together all members of our community to enjoy the Gaelic language and culture in a relaxed and enjoyable way. These cultural events and extra-curricular activities give the parents and pupils opportunities to meet with other GME learners and help strengthen G\u00e0idhlig as a family language. We recognise that the majority of children who go through GME do not have Gaelic at home. Therefore, we encourage parents to listen to Gaelic radie and watch Gaelic TV programs.<\/p>\n

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WHAT IS GAELIC MEDIUM EDUCATION?<\/strong><\/p>\n

G\u00e0idhlig medium education involved the use of the G\u00e0idhlig Language for all teaching and learning across the school curriculum. Gaelic medium education is one of the main ways of achieving or maintaining fluency in Gaelic. This is especially true of children from a non-Gaelic speaking background. The children follow the same curriculum as their peers in the English stream of the school (known as Gaelic Learners). It must be noted that it is not a requirement that parents must speak Gaelic in order to choose Gaelic Medium Education for their child\/ren. The aim is to bring our GME pupils to the stage of \u2018broadly equal\u2019 competence in G\u00e0idhlig and English by the end of primary 7. Gaelic Medium Education is open to everyone, those who speak Gaelic and those who do not. Pupils who are not Gaelic speakers to start with, indeed who come from non-Gaelic speaking homes and communities, can be brought to fluency in the language through what is referred to as \u2018total-immersion\u2019.<\/p>\n

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GAELIC TEACHING METHODOLOGY<\/strong><\/p>\n

From Sgoil-\u00c0raich\/P1 until the latter stages of Primary 3, the children are in their total immersion phase of learning where all their class work and homework is completed in Gaelic. Therefore, it is towards the end of P3\/the beginning of P4 that English is introduced. In P4 and P5, learning and teaching will mostly be in Gaelic as well as English, in P6 learning will be 60% in Gaelic and 40% in English and in P7, pupils will be learning 50% in Gaelic and 50% in English. All curricular areas are taught through the medium of Gaelic and we make daily use of Active Learning straetgies to develop the children\u2019s language skills. Teachers utilise all available opportunities to develop pupils\u2019 Gaelic skills \u2013 through songs, stories, rhymes, games and structured play. Learning is promoted through eye contact, body language, facial expressions and head movement. An oral Gaelic language framework is in place from the Sgoil-\u00c0raich to P7. This is in accordance with the CfE outcomes and helps us monitor and assess the progression of the children\u2019s Gaelic language skills.<\/p>\n

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GAELIC FIRST POLICY<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our local authority has adopted a \u2018Gaelic First\u2019 policy, where there is a presumption of pupils being enrolled in GME unless parents specifically request otherwise. Over the past six years, 100% of new entrants to P1 in Sgoil \u00d9ige have enrolled in GME. We support parents who are not fluent speakers in a variety of ways.<\/p>\n

Pupils who are not in Gaelic Medium Education are known as \u2018Gaelic Learners\u2019. This is to bring unity to the school, where all children receive their entitlement to learn the Gaelic language and engage in Gaelic activities and experiences together.<\/p>\n

Parents who are interested in educating their children through G\u00e0idhlig are welcome to contact the school and learn more about it from the Head Teacher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Below you will find some information on what Gaelic Medium Education is and the Comhairle’s ‘Gaelic First’ Policy. Please refer to our Gaelic Education Policy for full information on how Gaelic Education is valued within Sgoil \u00d9ige. Gaelic Policy Jan 25 FOGHLAM TRO MHEADHAN NA G\u00c0IDHLIG (GAELIC MEDIUM EDUCATION) G\u00e0idhlig language and culture are key … Continue reading Foghlam G\u00e0idhlig\/Gaelic Education<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaidhlig-gaelic","eportfolio_category-none"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/uigschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/uigschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/uigschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/uigschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/uigschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6504"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/uigschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6634,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/uigschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6504\/revisions\/6634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/uigschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/uigschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/es\/uigschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}