Glasgow Gaelic School

The Gaelic School Glasgow (Scottish Gaelic: Sgoil Ghàidhlig Ghlaschu ) is a school in Glasgow, in which all subjects are taught in the Scottish Gaelic language. This type of teaching is called Gaelic medium education (education with funds from the Gaelic ).

Organization

Approximately 630 children attend school; it is divided into preschool, primary school and secondary school.

The school has no fixed catchment area, but the student body comes from the Greater Glasgow and from the south-west Scotland. A lot of students come from Kilmarnock, East Kilbride, Bishopbriggs, Cumbernauld and Greenock. There are no prerequisites to attend the school, neither entrance tests even a waiting list exists. There is no form of school selection. Every family that would like to register your child, please send a notification to the City of Glasgow ( Glasgow City Council). The pre-school can be attended from the age of 4 years, primary school from the age of 5.

The School is unique in Scotland, since all subjects are taught in Scottish Gaelic. Scottish Gaelic is also the colloquial language throughout the school. It also children are taken from the GMU - schools (schools with Gaelic medium education units) of the neighboring regions, especially from East Ayrshire, East Dunbartonshire, Inverclyde, North Lanarkshire and South Lanarkshire.

With increasing demand in the next few years the school board in Glasgow plans to expand the school.

History

The first Gaelic school was opened as a primary school in Glasgow 1999: Bunsgoil Ghàidhlig Ghlaschu ( Gaelic Primary School Glasgow ). As more and more parents anmeldeten their children for the classroom, the school with the help of the authorities had to move to a larger area. The present building stands on the site of the former Woodside Secondary School and was opened as the Glasgow Gaelic School ( Sgoil Ghàidhlig Ghlaschu ) in August 2006 and now includes a preschool, primary school and secondary school.