Sign Language Week
This year Sign Language Week is on March 17th to March 21st. Sign Language Week is an awareness week for British Sign Language (BSL).
Sign Language Week is celebrated every year in March to remember the first time BSL was acknowledged as a language in its own right by the UK Government on 18th March 2003. It aims to celebrate and educate about BSL and to encourage more people to start learning it and preserve BSL for future generations.
BSL is the preferred language of over 87,000 Deaf people in the UK for whom English may be a second or third language.
BSL helps to build a sense of community and belonging for Deaf people and highlights Deaf culture and identity.
All children participated in BSL activities and they had great fun joining in with signing with their deaf peers. Here are some of the activities pupils at Girlington have been carrying out during Sign Language Week.
Reception children learning to sign greetings in BSL
Year 1 practicing their hand shapes for the competition
Years 2 and 3 learning the BSL alphabet
Year 4 practising the BSL alphabet and their handshape
Years 5 and 6 enjoying a variety of BSL activities
