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Data from the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) suggests that children and young people of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) heritage consistently achieve the lowest of all ethnic groups. And yet the attention given to challenging their underachievement is patchy.
The Achieve Network has been working with local authorities (LAs), schools and teachers to explore and develop practice to promote GRT equality. The resources collected here include:
GRT learners are consistently identified as underachievers. Like all children, they need opportunities to discover, to enjoy and to grow. How can teachers support these learners? (Spring 2008)
As a result of the impetus provided by Achieve’s March 2007 event, Gloucester LA supported schools to develop Traveller community and school partnerships and a ‘missing children’ protocol. (Spring 2008)
After the Achieve conference, Leeds TES set up a project to look into the absence of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) children in Sure Start support projects in Leeds. Achieve interviewed Sue Gold, who led the project. (Spring 2008)
Durham LA has developed a number of tools and resources to ensure that schools and teachers were better able to support GRT children and their families. (Spring 2008)
The work of the Sutton and Merton Traveller education service. (Spring 2008)
Read about the experience of a Romany Gypsy parent whose daughter is entering secondary school. (Spring 2008)
This project developed an inclusive approach to the Key Stage 3 secondary art curriculum. (Spring 2008)
There are 20 children of GRT heritage at this school, aged between 11 and 17. Flexibility is the key to its success. (Spring 2008)
In 2001 Guildford’s Children’s Centre acquired an early years play bus to provide outreach to GRT sites. (Spring 2008)
This resource file details useful and relevant websites and provides an annotated bibliography of relevant publications, research and reports.
Meeting the education needs of children of Traveller heritage is a complex issue. These case studies show how teachers are meeting this challenge successfully in two very different contexts: Bexley local authority (LA) and Crays Hill School in Billericay, Essex. (Spring 2007)
A case study of a group set up to tackle underachievement of traveller children and challenge the hostility of the settled community towards them. (Autumn 2005)
A summary of the event with downloadable resources. (Spring 2008)
