Traveller Child in Education Action Framework - Early Years

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My 17yr old is happy he is going back to learning in school as 2-3 other boysfrom the estate are going to do it with him.iv. Career / Educational Ambitions and Expectations Do timber wood work. Need to give choices for electrical work, joinery and the children would stayon at school (x 6 parents). Our children need to know they can do anything not just hairdressing. Other subjects that represent Travellers for Traveller kids would be good likedriving lessons and horse riding. Be whatever they want to be. Help them go to college. Help children get out and about more. Sew the seeds for career paths in primary school. Traveller children shouldbe inspired and driven to do well at school so they can get exams, get a joband not rely on benefits. Provide guidance on transition from secondary school to training andemployment. Boys don’t want to do cookery. I have spoken to the school and the board ofgovernors in school and they said “could they not just do it and the otherswouldn’t find”. The boys get a slanging and it causes fights, the year headsaid, “When traveller children don’t cook we don’t have the staff to look after. Move vocational subjects to an earlier age. Cookery, the children don’t want to do it (x 6 parents). Can they do something extra instead of attending cookery? (x 6 parents). Children not attending school on the days they have cookery, missing out onother lessons if they don’t attend on the days they have cookery. Do better courses stonemasonry. Even tarmacing and construction. Boys doing boys classes not cookery, dancing or playing the tin whistle (x 2parents). Target younger age (13-15yrs) for Careers advice (x 8 parents). Out of school service for older children educating on life skills and other i.e.NVQ’s (x 4 parents). After school sessions. Offer the children a skill or a trade at a younger age to encourage them tostay at school longer instead of classes of no benefit to the travellers science,languages (x 5 parents). The boys have to learn to do something and that’s the only way they canlearn to make a living (x 6 parents). I would like my children to go as far in education as they want. To be doctorsor teachers. I want them to do well. Young Traveller boys won’t go on to be doctors or that, they have to learn thetrade, that’s Traveller culture. There has only been one boy in the north thathas gone on to be a doctor, it’s very rare for boys to go on.20
I would want my child to get jobs (x 6 parents). My child has no interest in the books but he loves going to C.T.S. becausetheir learning how to make things so more classes like that” (Training schemebetween the school and the local training services). Look I could lie to you but at 14 our children are seen as adults and they wantto be doing practical things not just sitting in a classroom. I think it would be great to get some other subjects that the boys would like todo like driving (x 6 parents). Children learn from other children, so the bigger children could come and talkto the younger ones before they start the big school. I would like my child to follow their dreams and achieve more than I did andnot be discriminated against.v. Inclusion Traveller children need to experience both ways of life (x 6 parents). Have a better understanding of a Travellers life. Just that they understand that if the child isn’t in school there's maybe awedding or that and realise these things is important to us. Schools/settings made to do Cultural Awareness and anti racism training. More cultural awareness training for all involved (x 4 parents). More cultural awareness to overcome barriers in schools. Stop the bullying (x 4 parents). Help others to understand our culture more so the bullying of traveller childrenstops. There should be more CCTV cameras in schools to stop bullying (x 2parents). Teachers should be able to check the children’s text messages to help stopbullying (x 2 parents). Transport needs to be supervised. More understanding for teachers and pupils about traveller culture. Providemore information about their lifestyle and culture (x 5 parents). Provide more opportunities to spend with other travelers. Use the extra money the schools get for having travellers to educate theteachers better about travellers culture, lifestyle and beliefs (x 3 parents). Make travellers more visible within the school. During pastoral care week inmy daughter’s school they covered all the different ethnic minorities in theschool e.g polish, Chinese, indian but left the travellers out! Reluctant to send my daughter to school due to the reputation of the school,what the other children get up to. Have no identity not even allowed studs or holy necklaces. Ears close over bythe weekend. Put Traveller Culture into the Curriculum for Teachers and all children inschools Because they don't understand or accept that we are different eventhose who live in houses, we are still traveller.21
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