Manx on the Isle of Man
| pre-primary education | primary education | secondary education |
| Bunscoill Ghaelgagh |
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| Contact person | Paul Rogers |
| p.rogers@bunscoill.sch.im | |
| Website | http://www.sch.im/Bunscoill/index.htm |
| Total number of teachers | 3 |
| Total number of pupils | 54 |
| Languages taught as subject | English (as first language of children but only for two hours a week in upper keystage 2, and one hour in lower keystage 2, French (1h/wk) |
| Languages of instruction | Manx 100% keystage 1, English (see above) |
| Languages used outside formal lessons | English |
| Skills trained in the minority language | reading, listening, speaking, writing, mediation |
| Availability of the teaching material | Reasonable; we now have an in house resource creator who translates and produces resources for us. Other than that there are no resources apart from those that individual class teachers produce. |
| Quality of the teaching material | Reasonable |
| Developers of the teaching material | Teachers in the school or colleagues, translations or adaptations from other languages. |
| Remarks | Main problem: resources. English is majority language of community and media. Links with other primary schools, especially those who don't have English as a main language so that our children appreciate that not every one speaks English and so it is important to learn other languages too. It would be great if a counterpart to our Irish Club (the children learn Irish through the medium of Manx and explore the similarities) could be established in an Irish school, i.e. a Manx Club. |