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Principles and practice
Children come to Gàidhlig education from a wide variety of backgrounds from a household within a strong Gàidhlig speaking community to an environment where no Gàidhlig is spoken.
The principles and practice document is essential reading for teachers as they start working with the experiences and outcomes for literacy and Gàidhlig.
Experiences and outcomes
All curriculum areas contribute to the totality of the experiences that make up the new curriculum. You can download the experiences and outcomes for literacy and Gàidhlig.
National Qualifications
An introduction to the literacy and Gàidhlig National Qualifications with links to information on how they are changing.
Support materials
The Kist Scots language resource
This resource is an online version of The Kist / A' Chiste anthology which contains prose, poetry and drama in various dialects of Scots, and in Gaelic.
Gaelic thesaurus (Co-fhaclair Gàidhlig)
This online thesaurus makes it easy to find synonyms and related terms for Gaelic words. It also contains antonyms for some words.
Developing Gàidhlig language and literacy skills through numeracy
Carinish Primary School is developing language and literacy skills at early level through active learning approaches.
Developing listening and talking skills in Gàidhlig
Meadowburn Primary School is developing language and literacy skills through the medium of Gaelic in a situation where the vast majority of children are from non-Gaelic speaking backgrounds.
- See more support materials for literacy and Gàidhlig
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