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• Science Glossary Workshop

  Fri 19 Mar 2021 Katherine O'Grady

  We had Science Glossary workshop delivered by Dr Audrey Cameron from Moray House, Edinburgh and Rachel O’Neill, Senior Lecturer in Deaf Education. It was a valuable session where we learnt the key signs for Science Glossary. Many thanks for them for their time in delivering the workshop.

  

• Maths Census Day

  Fri 19 Mar 2021 Dani Sive
  We have been learning about the National Census to be held on Sunday 21st March 2021. The children have been doing their own census in school all day today with different 'Let's Count' activities, and applying their Maths skills. Each class had a theme to count and analyse their data into pictograms, bar graphs and pie charts: favourite fruit;  favourite things; the local area; the school population - gender, deaf/hearing, ethnicity, religion. We'll be posting photos in the Gallery soon! Thank you to Catherine Drew for organising the day. 

• BSL Recognition Day

  Thu 18 Mar 2021 Dani Sive
  Today we celebrated 18 years since the UK government recognised British Sign Language (BSL) as an official language in our country. (18th March 2003). We enjoyed a watching a fantastic presentation by Dr Kate Rowley about the BSL marches and the campaign to get BSL recognised in the UK. We also enjoyed some fun BSL games and activities and ended the day with a BSL birthday cake! Happy Birthday BSL! Many thanks to our Deaf Instructor, Mischa Cooke, for organising the day so brilliantly!

  

• Sign Language Week

  Mon 15 Mar 2021 Dani Sive

  We are celebrating Sign Language Week this week and started with an assembly this morning to introduce the week. This year's theme is Sign Language For All. Check the BDA website for more information http://signlanguageweek.org.uk/ There will a different topic each day. Monday's theme was Sign Language in the home. Tuesday's theme was Sign Language at school - check out the vide on the signlanguageweek.org.uk website - Frank Barnes is featured!

  Happy Sign Language Week everyone! #SignLanguageForAll  #SignLanguageWeek

  On Thursday 18th March, we will be celebrating our annual BSL Recognition Day to celebrate 18 years since our UK government recognised BSL as a language!

  

• British Science Week

  Mon 15 Mar 2021 Dani Sive
  We celebrated British Science Week on Friday 12th March, with a demonstration of Science experiments performed via Zoom by Mr Derek Rodger from Heathlands School, and Dr Audrey Cameron from Moray House, Edinburgh. Cerf and Maginn classes loved learning about different types of energy and how these change. Perhaps a few budding future Deaf scientists in the making! Thank you to Heathlands for inviting us.