Category: Key documents

This booklet explores some of the main learning and teaching principles intended to close the attainment gap for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller pupils.

This booklet focuses on the vital role that Gypsy, Roma and Traveller parents play, as partners in the education and achievement of their children. It identifies factors unique to these communities, which need to be considered in developing partnerships with Gypsy, Roma and Traveller children, their families and communities, to enable these pupils to optimise their educational opportunities.

The materials in this guidance are intended to help schools respond to the above factors and to take urgent action to shift Gypsy, Roma and Traveller pupils from the periphery of the education system to the very centre.