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Authentic Images of Textiles and Fabrics

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Authentic Images of Textiles and Fabrics

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https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ogH8Lbkwamz2bUsbDNmsgTkNwN4oUb7h

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Diversity and Rights throughout the Calendar

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Diversity and Rights throughout the Calendar

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Exploring different celebrations throughout the year and connecting these to children's rights and the UNCRC articles. Could these be shared and highlighted in the welcome area?

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Mud Kitchen Utensils from Different Places

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Mud Kitchen Utensils from Different Places

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Are children able to choose how they eat their food? With their hands, with cutlery, with ladles or chopsticks, for example? Does the equipment reflect the eating methods used in the homes of children? Do children sit on the floor, at tables or at benches to eat at home, or example? Are rich opportunities for learning about each other explores in this space?

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Our children will experience a curriculum that meaningfully recognises and fairly represents the rich and diverse communities in Scotland and beyond.

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Our children will understand and enquire into Scotland’s role in historical world events, including trans-Atlantic enslavement and colonial histories, and their continuing impact today.

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Or children will learn about and investigate past and present events in a way that amplifies under-represented perspectives and stories.

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Our children will feel safe and confident to co-design their curriculum from their personal perspectives and those of the wider world.

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Our children will be critical thinking global citizens that challenge discrimination and prejudice through an understanding and awareness of the behaviours, practices and processes that create injustice in the world.

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Our children will learn the difference between individual and systemic racism, their impacts, and how they intersect or connect with other types of injustice.

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Our children will be supported to reflect on positionality, privilege and power, and to unlearn bias, prejudice and divisiveness.

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Our children will learn that everyone has a right to be safeguarded from racism and discrimination, and will be empowered to challenge any infringement of this right.

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Our children will be empowered to bring about new ways of being together in the world by valuing and promoting empathy, solidarity and shared humanity that is often disrupted by systemic racism.

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Provide a Range of Everyday Materials for Children to Make Instruments of their Own 

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Provide a Range of Everyday Materials for Children to Make Instruments of their Own 

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Can children work together to construct and discover the power and benefits of working collaboratively to create something great? Perhaps they have different strengths, ideas and ways of doing things but these can all add to a unified outcome?

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Carry out an audit of the books in your book corner. It is important to offer children a range of books about people like them and their family, as well as about people who are different from them and their family. All of the books should be accurate and appealing to young children. Use the Book Audit tool in the Tools for Whole Setting resources section of the website to help you. Further guidance can also be found here.

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Mirrors & Windows: Developing anti-racist education through books

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Mirrors & Windows: Developing anti-racist education through books

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Mirrors & Windows: Developing anti-racist education through books – Highland One World

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Books have the power to shape the way children see themselves and the world. They can act as mirrors that reflect what we know about ourselves and the world we live in. They can also act as windows into worlds and experiences that are different to our own.

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The (incomplete) Lit in Colour Book List for Early Years 

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The (incomplete) Lit in Colour Book List for Early Years 

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Please ensure photo permissions have been sought before uploading images containing children. Thank you

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Are examples of cards celebrating different occasions displayed in mark-making areas?

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Cooking and Eating Utensils from Different Cultures

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Cooking and Eating Utensils from Different Cultures

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Are there opportunities for children to touch, experiment with, share experience of different cooking and eating utensils? What are they made from? How are they used? What foods do they help prepare? Is a range of tools on offer that reflect those used in children's homes? Are children given the opportunity to eat with their hands if this is the way they eat with their family at home?

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Parents/carers are invited into the Nursery to share with the children some traditions associated with Eid, including delicious food, wonderful music and Mehndi. Children are invited to wear clothes reflecting their cultural identity on this also, with tartan, Fair Isle sweaters and Sarees all present!

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Writing our names bilingually with parents to meaningfully represent the diversity in a setting.

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Often parents enjoy being asked the meaning of their child’s name

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Creating a hello display personalised to your room. The hellos are not transcribed into English  as this can detract from the status of other languages.The phrase “Languages sound different but talking is the same “ is a good starting point for beginning a poster.

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Work in progress on diversifying book corner. Children choose titles from pre-selected categories. Dual language texts always available.

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Loose parts. Parent donated bangles and moons for play and exploration during Ramadan.

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We created a children's songbook inviting parents/carers to share with us the songs & rhymes from home that were special to them and their child. These included a diverse range of songs from various cultural and religious backgrounds which were shared with the whole Nursery and sang & played throughout the year.

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Cloakroom names written in children's home languages creates a sense of belonging.

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Parents comment very positively on these and often offer to write and record children’s voices using audio recording tools such as the one found below. This can support practitioners, children and parents in pronouncing names accurately. 

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https://namedrop.io/

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Multilingual digital texts. Easy to use in settings and share with families. Choose your chosen language from the options bar at the top of the webpage.

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Unite for Literacy provides free digital access to picture books, narrated in many languages. Literacy is at the core of a healthy community, so we unite with partners to enable all families to read with their young children.

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Equality and Diversity Picture Books: Highland Literacy

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Equality and Diversity Picture Books: Highland Literacy

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Highland Council's Equalities Improvement Group and LGBTI+ sub-group have published a series of lesson plans in December 2017 to support the development of Equality and Diversity across the curriculum. 18 picture books have been selected; for each picture book there have been lessons created for Early - Fourth Levels (Curriculum for Excellence) driven by the...

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Play | Embracing Inclusive Celebrations Toolkit (Lisa Kane)

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Play | Embracing Inclusive Celebrations Toolkit

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Mochara Goes to Nursery: Free picture book translated into 5 languages about ups and downs of Mochara's first day at nursery and reassures children about what to expect.

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Mochara Goes to Nursery: Free picture book translated into 5 languages about ups and downs of Mochara's first day at nursery and reassures children about what to expect.

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‘Mochara Goes to Nursery’ is available to all refugee and migrant children. Distribution of all Welcome to Scotland packs are arranged directly via local authorities, who should get in touch directly with the EIS to notify them of numbers required. There are 5 versions of the book, each containing a separate translation into the languages below –

French

Polish

Arabic

Dari and Pashto

Russian and Ukrainian

For more information, please contact John Harris in the Education & Equality Department.

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To celebrate Refugee Week, EIS Ex-President Paula McEwan reads ‘Mochara Goes to Nursery’.

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Mother Tongue Other Tongue Poetry Collection

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Mother Tongue Other Tongue Poetry Collection

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An electronic flipbook of poems written and read by children celebrating the creativity, linguistic diversity and cultural heritage of young people across Scotland.

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This year marked a fresh chapter for the Mother Tongue Other Tongue (MTOT) multilingual poetry competition as it returned to a renewed focus on the written word after a year's break. Now over a decade since the original Glasgow pilot in 2014, MTOT continues to celebrate the creativity, linguistic diversity and cultural heritage of young people across Scotland.

We were thrilled to receive over 150 entries, representing 37 different languages - including first ever submissions in Seychellois Creole and Amharic. The range was extraordinary: acrostics, diamantes, raps, humorous pieces, and deeply moving reflections on identity, family, nature and belonging. Additionally, this year's competition included a special prize category inspired by the National Poetry Day theme of Play. We were delighted by the enthusiastic response, with poets exploring the theme in imaginative and unexpected ways. The richness of voices this year was further uplifted by the support of the new Scots Makar, Peter Mackay, whose encouragement helped inspire learners to share their stories with confidence.

Our online awards ceremony, held on 24 March 2026 to mark International Poetry Day (21 March), brought together pupils, teachers, families and special guests for a joyful celebration of Scotland's multilingual landscape. Expert judges from the Universities of Strathclyde, Glasgow and Edinburgh - alongside the Development Manager at the Association for Language Learning, the UK's major subject association for those involved in teaching foreign languages - faced an exceptionally difficult task. The standard was so high that, after much deliberation, they not only selected winners in each category but also chose to recognise several additional entries with highly commended awards.

Where permission was granted, the winning and highly commended poems are available to view in the presentation flipbook below.

SCILT is immensely proud of every participant. MTOT continues to show how powerfully young people can express themselves when given the space to explore language, identity and imagination. We look forward to seeing even more languages, more creativity and more courageous voices in the years ahead.

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Award winners and highly commended entries for the Mother Tongue Other Tongue (MTOT) multilingual poetry competition in Scotland 2025-26