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This project has been really engaging for so many classes in our school. All our pupils have additional learning needs ranging from moderate learning difficulties, autism and ADHD to social and emotional behavioural difficulties. Each class that has been invited to join in the project so far has been so enthusiastic it has been over whelming. The effort that Year 9 put into learning the lines of the song “This is Me” was incredible. As Sharon knows, there was even a phone ringing in the background when they were recording and they didn’t flinch – they just carried on!!!

In terms of the weekly challenge, that has brought its own rewards. My form group of Year 10 pupils go out to a neighbouring school for pupils with physical disabilities. They are proud to be the first peer mentoring group that have done this. When we started practicing the “Good morning” and “Good afternoon” Makaton signing, they were so excited and told me that the pupils in the other school sign to them every morning and now they felt able to sign back!

This is indeed a truly inclusive learning project and one that I feel tremendously proud to be a part of 😊

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Whitehouse Common Primary, Sutton Coldfield, UK

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Whitehouse Common Primary, Sutton Coldfield, UK

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Although I'm the language specialist at WCPS, I teach one class of music each week. We've only had one 40 minute lesson to learn the song as their lesson this week was cancelled. After that one lesson the whole class signed parts of This is Me to the whole of KS2 in assembly. Some of the children gave up their lunchtime to record their line - and then stayed to sign the whole song.

Another class took on the Weekly challenge and all wanted to be in the video. Not only that, they taught their teacher the signs and greeted me with them all week. What's more, one of the boys in the class came and found me to say that he'd showed his mum who uses Makaton at work and she taught him how to sign toilet!

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Was it hard to learn Makaton?

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Have you ever used Makaton before?

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What age group does your school go up to?

Aoife St Paul's

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How many of your schools did the song?

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Do you speak English or Swedish? If you speak Swedish was it difficult to learn the song?

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How old are you guys ?

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How old were your students?

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where did you learn the dance moves from ?

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Which age group are you?

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How many children are in your class?

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Are you taking part in the next song?

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Haagsche Schoolvereeniging, The Netherlands 

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Haagsche Schoolvereeniging, The Netherlands 

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It was really hard to learn some signs from the song!!! Our class is an international class with boys and girls from all around the world. We had a lot of fun and at the end we all aced it together!

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Haagsche Schoolvereeniging, The Netherlands 

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Haagsche Schoolvereeniging, The Netherlands 

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We have really enjoyed taking part in the Hands of the world project so far. It was really exciting and I can´t wait to do more. I feel very proud to take part in such an amazing project!

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Why are there some many people in your class and which year group are you in ?

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Haagsche Schoolvereeniging, The Netherlands 

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Haagsche Schoolvereeniging, The Netherlands 

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I really enjoyed this project and learning the song. I thought it was very cool how multiple countries got to do one song. It was very awesome and I'm excited for more!

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Do you always wear uniforms?

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This is a really heartbreaking song and if you have seen the movie it is even more heartbreaking. I have high hopes for this one!

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Do you all understand english?

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Our Year 7 pupils really enjoyed being part of this project. A few pupils had used it before in Primary School but as a group it was a great activity to get them all involved in.
It was great to see a few leaders take over and teach it to the rest of the class. They were so enthusiastic! We are now going to try to get all Yr 7's involved and their 6th Form

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I have an ELT class studying for language departments of university. When I told them that we are going to take part in a project related to their field, they never guessed this. Because when we say language very few people think of sign language. Showing them that there is much more than they think is astonishing. My students were very interested in the topic. Thank you for giving them this unique opportunity. 

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I have an ELT class studying for language departments of university. When I told them that we are going to take part in a project related to their field, they never guessed this. Because when we say language very few people think of sign language. Showing them that there is much more than they think is astonishing. My students were very interested in the topic. Thank you for giving them this unique opportunity. 

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Can you, please, tell me how to change the privacy settings of the video, so that the video can be found only when shared?

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Hello from the USA! My students will be joining this project for the first time and I hope to start next week. Can someone please tell me how I learn our line in Makaton?

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Hello from the USA! My students will be joining this project for the first time and I hope to start next week. Can someone please tell me how I learn our line in Makaton?

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My 10 to 12 years old students are really motivated to take part in this project. They are working with music this year at school but it's amazing to combine music, English and Sign Language!. They are learning everyday new expressions using Makaton and the songs selected for the project are awesome!

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This project is becoming more and more noticeable around school.
Children are signing to me when they see me in the corridor, and even greeted me in Makaton at parents' evening on Tuesday which led to some discussions with parents about how much their child(ren) were enjoying learning it.

I've done KS2 assembly twice this week (I don't have my own class so I had everyone so their teacher could get ready for parents' evening) On Tuesday all 270 children signed Good afternoon and also learned how to sign How are you and the two responses. On Thursday they all signed without being reminded. They even reminded me of how to sign teacher! When I played the January song as they left, it took a looong time to clear the hall as they all walked really slowly so they could watch!
I need to get a GoPro mounted to my head though as I have no video evidence of any of this!!

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Kairouan ,Tunisia
The first time I saz Makaton sign was on TV new . I was trying to match between his signs and the speech to learn new things .But now due to this project I and my students learn many signs and we are happy to be part of this project

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I feel very proud to take part in such an amazing project! I show the final song

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Ukraine. My kids are 10 years old. And when I told them we're going to participate in such a fantastic project, the became extremely enthusiastic about it! Let us do this great on e together!

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Since graduating, I have been working in a school with a very high level of deprivation. Most children struggle with self-esteem and resilience is at an all time low. My p5/6 class, despite being lovely are a handful! One of my lower level children is selective mute. I have had the pupil for a year and a half now and the progress has been incredible. She is now talking in class much more but pictures and videos are still a huge hurdle. After putting in the work and seeing a connection between their selective mutism as well as children in the school that use makaton to communicate they felt obligated to be part of our first video and have taken on responsibility to make sure we have our line in A Million Dreams perfect! A proud teacher, proud parents and a child who has hit smashed a new challenge because they wanted to!

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St Paul's,

We have started to include all of our signs in our daily routine in French classes .

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St Paul's,

We have started to include all of our signs in our daily routine in French classes .

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tried the line with 3 groups of students 6,7 and 10 years old.The youngest ones thought it was a game. While the 10 years old got so enthusiastic and even learned at home a lot abput sign language

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This is the first time I have heard ''makaton''.When I talked about this project to my students ,my students were so excited.

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This is the first time I have heard ''makaton''.When I talked about this project to my students ,my students were so excited.

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I was so happy to participate on getting the Internationnal School award 2019 for our school from the Britch council in Tunisia. I have shown our songs of january and february for the ambassadors who were presents to evaluate. They were amazed by our work