Useful Links
NATT+
The National Association of Teachers of Travellers and Other Professionals. The Association was established in 1980 in order to address the isolation of teachers of Travellers and to support and encourage their work.
GyPSY Roma Traveller History month
Britain’s 300,000 Gypsies, Roma and Travellers (GRT) have lived, worked and travelled throughout Britain for over 500 years, yet have been almost entirely written out of British history. The result is a widespread ignorance about who the GRT community are. Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month aims to change that.
National strategies
The National Strategies have been successful in transforming the standards of teaching and learning in schools and settings throughout England.
www.nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk
appleby Fair Website
This is the official site for the Appleby Horse Fair. The Fair is an annual gathering of Gypsies and Travellers in the town of Appleby in Cumbria’s Eden Valley.
The Standards Site
Teachernet
The Online Publications for schools service links directly into the Department for Children, Schools and Families' ordering hotline and distribution centre.
www.teachernet.gov.uk/publications
Leeds Education Gypsy Roma and Traveller Achievement service
Multiverse initial teacher training professional resource network
A website for teacher educators and student teachers addressing the educational achievement of pupils from diverse backgrounds.
Cambridgeshire Education Portal
“Making Children Matter- strategy for closing the attainment gap for black, minority ethnic, Gypsy and Traveller children and young people”. Here you will find information on education and learning across the county for all ages, the very youngest children, those of school age, students and adults. Plus you will find links to other useful websites.
www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/education
Travellers Times magazine
Worth ordering for school, Travellers' Times magazine will be published again in December 2009, with a new look and a new subscriptions system. Between quarterly issues of the magazine, TT Online brings you weekly news, pictures, video, opinion and resources from within the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities.