Gypsy, Traveller, Roma, Showmen and Boaters: supporting Traveller learners
The University of Sussex has pledged to provide an environment where students from Traveller backgrounds can feel welcome and thrive. Our Access, Participation, and Progression Plan endorses this commitment.
Supporting Traveller learners
Our support for Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller learners is held in high regard nationally. Our practice is to seek to work with Sussex-based schools who have a ‘higher-than-average’ intake of learners from a Traveller background. We seek to scaffold existing practice, provide guidance, and improve educational outcomes for Traveller-heritage learners at your school; this is a critical area of support as Traveller-heritage learners continue to have the poorest educational outcomes of any measured group.
Friends, Families and Travellers (FFT) and Widening Participation, University of Sussex, combine to offer in-school support and increase knowledge as part of our work for the forthcoming five years. Working alongside our Local Authorities we seek to position schools to access and secure The Pledge; an education institutional kitemark expression of good practice and commitment to this group of learners and their families.
The Access, Participation and Progression Plan offers:
- continued, and student-informed, school resources
- specialised careers support for your Careers Leads
- curriculum-inclusion focused content
- continued delivery of L2 Health qualification
- discussion supporting securing The Pledge
- support for Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller History Month
- a practitioner’s network meeting
- additional support from the University of Sussex that aligns with the school’s Career Strategy.
For more information or a conversation please contact c.j.derbyshire@sussex.ac.uk.
Contact
If you have any queries, email participate@sussex.ac.uk.