Gaelic in Scotland
| pre-primary education | primary education | secondary education |
| Glasgow Gaelic School |
Glasgow Gaelic School |
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Glasgow Gaelic School
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| Contactperson | Donalda McComb |
| Website | http://www.glasgowgaelic.glasgow.sch.uk/ |
| Total number of teachers | 32 |
| Total number of pupils | 451 |
| Languages taught as subject | Gaelic, French, English |
| 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) |
| 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 |
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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