Over the past 6 weeks The Wren School students have been partaking in the 6x1hr BSL series with Signsource facilitators Anthony Sinclair and Paula Clarke. The school said “They have loved it, thank you to all the facilitators.”
Over the six weeks we have covered :
Introduction to BSL and general Deaf Awareness; Introduction to Deaf Awareness, BSL alphabet/fingerspelling, introductory questions and phrases, lip-reading and fingerspelling activities
Family; An introduction to correct hand-shapes, facial expressions and BSL grammar, basic conversational topics, family relations, describing a person including appearance, describing where people live, related short phrases
Numbers; 1-100, language relating to money, talking about age, time, related short phrase
Weather and School/College Subjects; The weather, short weather related phrases, school subjects, school life, describing classrooms, related short phrases to school
Life at university/college – Basic language involving FE/HE courses, related phrases, how to discuss career aspirations, introductory language regarding the social life – joining clubs
Applying for a new job – Basic language involving applying for jobs, related phrases to help with the application process
Huge thanks to Andy at The Wren School for putting on our workshops this academic year, it’s been a pleasure!
