
Show Racism the Red Card
The Educational Institute of Scotland is a sponsor of Show Racism the Red Card which is an anti-racism charity, which was established in January 1996.

The Educational Institute of Scotland is a sponsor of Show Racism the Red Card which is an anti-racism charity, which was established in January 1996.
Poverty invades every aspect of a young person’s life and cannot be left at the classroom door. The EIS supports the launch of CPAG’s School Shouldn’t Cost Manifesto and calls on the Scottish Government to end child and family poverty once and for all.
Current employer and trade union guidance for reducing teacher workload has not been effective – contractual changes are needed to guarantee workload reduction. Vote YES for the manifesto-promised contractual change, to less teaching time and more preparation time.
The EIS has noted today’s flurry of education statistic releases from the Scottish Government, and highlighted that the figures confirm the Scottish Government’s failure to meet its commitments on the employment of additional teachers as a means to tackle excessive teacher…

This booklet aims to provide secondary school teachers and college lecturers with some ideas for tackling the myths of immigration within their schools and colleges;…

This booklet aims to provide primary school teachers with some ideas for tackling the myths of immigration within their schools; myths such as “we have…

This booklet aims to provide nursery and early primary teachers with some ideas for discussing the myths of immigration within their schools and nurseries.

The EIS welcomes and values a diverse and inclusive society, and we welcome refugees and asylum seekers to Scotland.


The poem is written using a Scots dialect. Some of the words might be familiar to you.
These footnotes should help you understand to who’s who and who did what.


There’s a lot going on the story so this activity is to help you work out what happens in each part of the poem.

There’s a lot going on the story so this activity is to help you work out what happens in each part of the poem.