Polyglot pupils turn to signing
02 10 08 - 13:21 Staff and pupils at a primary school where the children speak 26 languages have turned to sign language to ease their communication problems.Lithuanian, Polish, Arabic, Farsi, Japanese, Mandarin, Wolof and Shona are among the mother tongues of the 55 pupils at Fairlight primary school in Brighton for whom English is not their first language.
Now all the school's 300 children - and their teachers - are learning to finger-spell words in British sign language and communicate their emotions and feelings using the signing system Makaton. Since the start of the new term assemblies have begun with a signed "good morning".
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What a mess! Pity the poor English students who have to try and learn sign language to understand their teachers now.
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