New collaboration with e-Sgoil
Videos of our previous sessions are available to view below. Information on each guest can be downloaded from the sidebar on the right hand side of the page.
Beairteas 1: Margaret MacLeod (na h-Òganaich) & Norrie ‘Tago’ Maciver
Beairteas 2: Morag MacLeod & Emma MacLeod
Beairteas 3: Dolina MacLennan & John Carmichael
Beairteas 4: Mary Ann Kennedy & Babs NicGriogair
Beairteas 5: Ceitlin Lilidh & Jayne MacLeod
Beairteas 6: Hamish & Iain MacLeod
Beairteas 7: Joy Dunlop & Calum MacLean
Beairteas 8: Angela MacEachen & Allan MacDonald
Registration Forms
All Beairteas sessions for the 2021-22 school year have now passed. Information on sessions in 2022-23 coming soon!
Strengthening the Gaelic skills of young people
- Do you speak Gaelic?
- Do you have personal or professional knowledge of a specialist subject or an interesting pastime?
- Do you have a story to tell about Gaelic in your daily life?
- Would you be interested in helping to strengthen young people’s Gaelic skills?
Through our Fèisgoil service, with support from the Scottish Government, Fèisean nan Gàidheal is now seeking assistance from Gaelic speakers to establish Beairteas.
What is it?
Beairteas is an intergenerational programme to match community-based fluent Gaelic speakers with schools and community groups. Their richness of language, specialist knowledge of Gaelic culture and many other subjects about which they could speak in Gaelic, would provide a valuable resource for pupils. This would complement the sterling work being done by teachers in Gaelic education.
Why?
Gaelic education is very successful and an essential component in growing a new generation of Gaelic speakers. Teachers work extremely hard to immerse children in the language and deliver a range of subjects through the medium of Gaelic.
Gaelic speakers involved in almost any walk of life have a tremendous amount to offer Gaelic education. The Curriculum for Excellence encourages work and engagement with people in communities.
Beairteas aims to complement schoolwork, offering opportunities for children to communicate in Gaelic with people other than their teachers. Engaging them with Gaelic speakers with specialist knowledge of the work they do or have done, as well as any interesting pastimes in which they may have been involved, will strengthen the language skills of the young people giving them a breadth of vocabulary they may not pick up through their daily schoolwork.
You may be a police officer, involved in the health service, community work or a trade. You may have specialist knowledge of Gaelic songs, history, traditional stories, war, sport or working in other countries. You may be involved in fishing, crofting, gardening, photography, weaving, cooking or almost anything in which you could engage young people through the medium of Gaelic.
Would you be willing to be involved?
If you would enjoy working with young people and are passionate about the revitalisation of Gaelic, we would like to hear from you. Work will be paid, but dependent on schools engaging with the Beairteas scheme. As a first step we would like people to register to be part of Beairteas by filling in this form.
A leaflet can be downloaded from the right hand side of the page. If you have any questions, please call Eilidh Mackenzie, Fèisgoil Manager on 01463 225559 or e-mail any queries to beairteas@feisean.org.
