Gaelic Medium Primary Education (GMPE) is an option within Scottish schools that gives children and young people the opportunity to become proficient in both Gaelic and English.
GMPE offers your child the opportunity to achieve fluency in another language at an early age.
Classes start at Primary 1 where children are fully immersed in the Gaelic language. The curriculum in the GMPE classroom is identical to that of the all-English speaking classroom.
English is introduced from Primary 4 onwards so that pupils are bilingual by the time they reach Primary 7.
The benefits of bilingualism are well documented. Research by neurologists, psychologists and linguists reveals a wide range of potential benefits for bilingual children:
- Improved cognitive skills which impact on the brain's executive control system (the ‘command centre’ which takes care of higher order thinking, multitasking and sustained attention)
- Improved performance on spatial working memory tasks
- Enhanced verbal memory and verbal learning
From 1st February 2017, parents of a child who is under school age and has not commenced attendance at a primary school have the right to request an assessment of the need for Gaelic Medium Primary Education in Dundee.
To read Bòrd na Gàidhlig’s full Statutory Guidance on Gaelic Education, please click here
To submit a request to assess the need for GMPE in Dundee, please complete this assessment form and send to accessibility.inclusion@dundeeschools.scot
FOGHLAM TRO MHEADHAN NA GÀIDHLIG SA BHUN-SGOIL (GMPE)
Tha GMPE na roghainn ann an sgoiltean na h-Alba agus a’ toirt cothrom do chlann agus do dhaoine òga fàs ealanta san dà chuid Gàidhlig agus Beurla.
Tha GMPE a’ tabhann cothrom don phàiste agad fileantachd ann an cànan eile a choileanadh aig aois thràth.
Tha clasaichean a’ tòiseachadh aig Prìomh 1 far a bheil clann air am bogadh gu h-iomlan ann an Gàidhlig. Tha an curraicealam ann an clasrum GMPE co-ionann ris a’ churraicealam sa chlasrum a tha gu tur Beurla. Tha Beurla air a thoirt a-steach ann am Prìomh 4 agus às a dhèidh agus mar sin tha sgoilearan dà-chànanach mun àm a ruigeas iad Prìomh 7.
Tha buannachdan dà-chànanais air an deagh chlàradh. Tha rannsachadh le niùro-eòlaichean, saidhc-eòlaichean agus cànanaichean a’ foillseachadh raon fharsaing de chomas shochairean dha clann a tha dà-chànanach:
- Sgilean inntinneil leasaichte a bheir buaidh air siostam smachd gnìomha na h-eanchainn (an ‘t-ionad òrdachaidh’ a bhios a’ gabhail cùram de smaoineachadh àrd-ìreil, ioma-ghnìomhadh agus aire sheasmhach).
- Coileanadh leasaichte air gnìomhan cuimhne le obair spàsail.
- Cuimhne labhairteach is ionnsachadh labhairteach air a neartachadh.
Bho 1 Gearran 2017, tha a’ choir aig pàrantan le pàiste a tha fo aois sgoile agus nach eil air tòiseachadh anns a’ bhun-sgoil air measadh a shireadh a thaobh an fheum air Foghlam tro Mheadhan na Gàidhlig sa Bhun-sgoil ann an Dùn Dè.
Gus an làn Stiùireadh Reachdail air Foghlam Gàidhlig aig Bòrd na Gàidhlig a leughadh, gliogaibh an seo.
Gus iarrtas airson measadh air an fheum air GMPE ann an Dùn Dè a chur a-steach, lìonaibh an fhoirm measaidh seo agus cuiribh e gu accessibility.inclusion@dundeeschools.scot