Dear Parents/Guardians,

Jordanstown School is delighted to offer to parents a free 8-week introduction to BSL. The program will run on Wednesday afternoons from 2-3 p.m., starting on Wednesday 6th March (with a break for Easter).

If any parent has a child who finishes at 2 p.m., the child can be supervised in Primary until 3 p.m. Although this initiative aims to support parents of deaf children, parents of children with a vision impairment are most welcome.

The teachers will be members of the school’s BSL support staff, Mr Trevor McCormick and Ms Colette McMahon. The topics covered will be (in no particular order):

• Greetings
• Family
• School life
• Days of the week
• Numbers / Time
• Hobbies
• The weather
• Asking questions

We hope this will be a good opportunity for parents with no (or very little) BSL to enjoy learning along with other parents in a relaxed environment over a cup of coffee.

If you already have a basic level of signing, please feel free to come along for the practice and to meet other parents. We hope that in future we can run courses to support parents to develop their signing to the next level, so if you would be interested in more advanced classes, please let us know.

If you would like to attend, please let us know so that we can organise the refreshments.

Looking forward to seeing you there!