Red Oaks Primary School - Sign Bilingual Inclusion

April 10: NDCS Listening Bus Visit

The NDCS Listening Bus visited on 22nd and 23rd April.
All the children in Miss Stratford, Miss Menzies and Mrs Major's classes had sessions on the bus. Click here to see more
April 10: NDCS Listening Bus Visit

Nov 09 - Sign a Story

Sign a story with Year 2
As a class we worked together to write a story about a boy who likes fishing and who found a surprising, magical creature at the school pond. We learned the story by heart, using some pictures and BSL signs to help us remember the important parts.
We are not reading any words!
Click here or on the image to see

Dec 08 - 'Awards for All' Success 'Awards for All' Success: Dec 08

Red Oaks is delighted to have been awarded £10,000
by 'Awards for All - England' to promote Deaf awareness and British Sign Language across the school community, purchase resources to support the learning of BSL, and to establish a Deaf-hearing theatre project and signing choir.
More information to follow shortly...

Thanks to Mrs Menham and Miss Parker for their hard work in putting together the successful bid

Click here to read the news article in the Swindon Advertiser and here for an online version

and here for the original newspaper article

Sam Wollaston, a journalist, who write for the Guardian spends 24 hours with one of the Red Oaks families

Aut 08 - Being Deaf

Sam Wollaston, a journalist who writes for the Guardian, spends 24 hours with one of the Red Oaks families: Ramon Woolfe, Louise Fitzgerald and their three children, all of whom are deaf, and discovers what it feels like to be the one who can't understand.

Linda Woolfe, Ramon's mum, is our BSL tutor.

Click here to read the full article on the Guardian website
or here for the article on the Red Oaks site