Sign languages

Teacher notes

This lesson is aimed at KS2 but is easily adaptable for KS1 /KS3 or any age range and supports inclusive practice. The charity SENSE runs ‘Sign School’ online. You can learn a few basic greetings to teach your class here: https://www.sense.org.uk/sense-sign-school/ (requires sign up), or see this YouTube tutorial here: https://youtu.be/-2O_ymoCIR0 **Lyfta core themes:** Culture and Identity, Equality and Human Rights, Learning and Growth, Professions and Entrepreneurship, Relationships. **Lyfta core skills and values**: Communication, Empathy and Understanding Others, Growth Mindset, Human Rights. **SDGs:** 8, 10, 11, 14. **National Curriculum objectives:** KS2 PSHE L26. that there are a broad range of different jobs/careers that people can have; that people often have more than one career/type of job during their life L27. about stereotypes in the workplace (particularly gender and disability related), and that a person’s career aspirations should not be limited by them L28. about what might influence people’s decisions about a job or career (e.g. personal interests and values, family connections to certain trades or businesses, strengths and qualities, ways in which stereotypical assumptions can deter people from aspiring to certain jobs). KS2 Citizenship to learn that differences and similarities between people arise from a number of factors, including cultural, ethnic, racial and religious diversity, gender and disability; KS1/2/3 English and wider communication skills - an introduction to sign languages, their diversity, and be able to introduce themselves in BSL.