Gaelic Learner Education: Gaelic in the primary school – live lessons

Wed, 28 May 2025, 15:30-16:30
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P4–7 practitioners teaching Gaelic (Learners) are invited to an information session on 28th May about FREE Gaelic Live Lessons.

Offered by Argyll and Bute and The Highland Council, this opportunity is open to all Scottish teachers.

Lessons run during the school day via Glow Teams, ensuring accessibility. The aim is to engage pupils and support teachers in confidently delivering Gaelic as an L3 language through interactive, team-taught online sessions. Teachers and pupils learn together in real time, with structured support and autonomy that many say boosts their confidence in language teaching. A valuable professional learning experience not to be missed!

Education Scotland aims to have an inclusive environment for all participants, by identifying and removing barriers in our practices.

Target audience

Please be aware that the target audience for this event is for professionals within the Education Sector in Scotland. To register, please enter either a school/establishment/setting/local authority or Glow email address. We understand not all education professionals have access to a school/establishment/setting/local authority or Glow email address, if this is the case, please email esevents@educationscotland.gov.scot with the name of your setting or service, to request a place. Thank you for your understanding.

Ticket Allocation

It is not possible to transfer your booking to anyone else. If you are unable to attend, please cancel your booking to free up a space for another participant. Please remember that for security purposes it is very important that you do not share event information with anyone else to provide them access to this event.

Code of Conduct

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Accessibility Information

If you have specific accessibility requirements (e.g. if you need the slides or more information to be sent to you in advance or need breaks at specific intervals) we would welcome more information about this beforehand. Whilst it is your choice to disclose this information, doing so will help us to better understand your needs and plan how to best support your engagement. Our aim is to make appropriate adjustments to our programme delivery to ensure the best possible experience for our delegates.

The use of third party AI notetaking apps is only permitted for accessibility reasons where they have been pre-authorised by Education Scotland. If you are planning to use such an app you can tell us this during the registration. Education Scotland have the right to reject unauthorised use of any AI notetaking app.

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Online Team Teaching - ‘Live Lessons’ Supporting Teachers to Deliver Gaelic in the Primary School Lessons

Why?

To motivate pupils and support teachers to deliver Gaelic confidently as L3 by facilitating fun and engaging online team-teaching. Teachers receive live, on the job professional learning in Gaelic and language pedagogy and lead the learning for chunks of the live lessons. This building of confidence then enables teachers to consolidate the language learning in their own class time using suggested follow-up resources and activities.

So why this model?

  • To increase teacher confidence in languages and language pedagogy.
  • To provide on the job professional learning to alleviate workload pressures.
  • To demonstrate in real-time what progression in language looks like.
  • To help teachers make the time for languages in a crowded curriculum.

What?

We offer Gaelic L3 courses to P4-7 classes. We provide a 6-week Gaelic Absolute beginners’ course and a 6 week Gaelic extension course. Both these courses are offered twice over the school year which provides two opportunities to participate. During these lessons, teachers learn alongside their pupils in real time and lead language learning games in their own class.

How?

How do we deliver the live lessons?

  • We use Microsoft Glow Teams to deliver the lessons. This means all teachers across Scotland can become a member of the Team and access the lessons and resources.
  • Each lesson lasts 40 minutes.
  • We offered the same lesson twice weekly to provide flexibility for attending.
  • The lesson structure alternates between short bursts of direct teaching from the online teacher followed by the class teachers leading their own class in a game.
  • We provide suggested follow-up activities and resources to consolidate the learning.

Lessons for 2025-26

Come along to our information session on the 28 May 2025 to find out more about these lessons and decide whether you would like to sign up for lessons next/session.

Gaelic Absolute Beginners Course: Commencing week beginning 25 August 2025

Gaelic Extension Course: Commencing week beginning 27 October 2025

These courses will be repeated in Term 3 & 4

Read about a Pilot case study

Watch video clips from the live lessons.

Download promotional PDF.

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