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Glasgow Gaelic School
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| Contactperson |
Donalda McComb
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| Website |
under construction
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| Total number of teachers |
32
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| Total number of pupils |
451
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| Languages taught as subject |
Gaelic, French, English
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| Languages of instruction |
Gaelic, English |
| Languages used outside formal lessons |
Gaelic, English |
| Skills trained in the minority language |
Reading, listening, speaking, writing and mediation (= all sorts of communication in which a language user acts as an intermediate, e.g. translation, paraphrase, summary)
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| Availability of the teaching material |
Reasonable; we have an inter-authority resource production base. The funding is allocated by the Scottish Government and resources are produced depending on priorities and sector. |
| Quality of the teaching material |
Good, we now have resources that are of the same quality as resources available in English. |
| Developers of the teaching material |
Teachers in the school or colleagues;
Translations or adaptations from other languages;
Publishing houses. |
Remarks
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Our main problems relate to staffing and recruitment. We face a lack of suitably qualified experts e.g. psychologists, speech and language therapists.
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