Nursery’s, Children Centres and Pre-Schools

What makes Communicating-Hands classes and workshops different and unique? All our instructors are either qualified BSL interpreters, or hold a BSL qualification and have been specially trained by qualified interpreters. Some of our instructors have teaching qualifications and one has a diploma in childcare. Those with children have taught their own children sign and therefore have the right educational expertise and personal experience to share.

Using Signs from British Sign Language (BSL) can be a compliment to your existing curriculum. BSL gives children an extra tool to facilitate communication and language development.

With so many languages spoken in Peterborough/Cambridgeshire Schools today, childcare professional face a daily challenge. When it comes to communicating with many of the children whose first language is not English, BSL acts as a ‘visual bridge’ between cultures and can help a child understand English much quicker.

By integrating signs from BSL into a preschool curriculum it enhances literacy skills needed for school success in reading, vocabulary and spelling. In addition centres that use sing language to aid communication find that:

A child’s frustration, tantrums, biting and screaming are reduced because they can express their needs and wants.
Helps integrate children with disabilities and language difficulties
Facilitates visual and kinaesthetic learning
Adds fun to daily routine and music activities
Helps meet the criteria required by OFSTED for the key principles of the EYFS framework. (Our workshops will show how)

Host our programme at your centre and earn some money!

If you hold our fun and educational 6/12/or 18 week programme at your centre we will split the money 80/20. This means if you were able to get just 12 people interested in a six week programme Cost £42) you could earn your centre £108 just for giving out our leaflets and registration forms and getting people interested.