Bun-sgoil Shlèite is a primary
school
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on the
Sleat
Sleat ( ) is a peninsula and civil parish on the island of Skye in the Highland council area of Scotland, known as "the garden of Skye". It is the home of the clan '' MacDonald of Sleat''. The name comes from the Scottish Gaelic , which in tur ...
peninsula of the island of
Skye
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in
Scotland
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. It is Scotland's only
Gaelic Medium School with an English department. It was established in August 2007 though the building originally opened in November 1983.
Gaelic medium education
In January 2006,
Highland Council
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History
The Highland area had been created as an administrative a ...
decided to conduct a formal consultation on a proposal to change Sleat Primary School to a dedicated Gaelic school. The responses indicated that community and parents' views were polarised between those preferring exclusively English and Gaelic educations. The Education, Culture and Sport Committee of the Council met on 21 September 2006 to make a final decision, opting for the compromise of a Gaelic medium school with an English department.
Visual arts project
In 2009, pupils from the school, along with pupils from Tollcross Primary School in
Edinburgh
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started an 18-month visual art and nature project, designed to link the children who experience Gaelic Medium Education in very different environments with Tollcross being in urban Edinburgh, with a Gaelic unit within an otherwise English-speaking school, and Bun Sgoil Shlèite being on the rural Sleat peninsula of Skye, with all the teaching in Gaelic, apart from its small English department.
See also
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Gaelic medium education
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Gaelscoileanna
A Gaelscoil (; plural: ''Gaelscoileanna'') is an Irish language-Medium of instruction, medium school in Ireland: the term refers especially to Irish-medium schools outside the Irish-speaking regions or Gaeltacht. Over 50,000 students attend Gaels ...
for Irish-gaelic medium education in Ireland.
References
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Primary schools in Highland (council area)
Educational institutions established in 2007
Scottish Gaelic education
Buildings and structures in the Isle of Skye
2007 establishments in Scotland