| Curriculum area | Outcome |
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| Module A: What is British Sign Language (BSL)? |
To have some idea about the differences between BSL and English Understanding that all languages borrow words and signs from each other. Understanding visual-gestural language parameters, conventions and grammar. |
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To be able to recognise other peers sign names and understand why they are used. Learning how depicting signs, some verbs, pronouns and make use of spatial relationships | |
Module B: Deaf Identity
| To be able to express what it is like and how they feel being Deaf. |
| Learn about Deaf roles to support identity | |
| To meet other Deaf adults, understand that there are others, discuss and ask questions for observational and receptive skills | |
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To critically watch a programme and comment on it To understand what an interpreter is | |
Module C: Language awareness and grammatical features:
| Recognise that groups of words combine to make clauses and include nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs. |
| To be able to describe different rooms using BSL principles, assessing BSL levels for placements, referents, location, eye gaze and enumeration | |
| To be able to describe from pictures and follow descriptions and identify errors for receptive skills | |
| To be able to integrate NMF in relation to handshapes, position, modification and answer questions | |
| To be able to sign from picture sequences using BSL principles including size, colour, shape, number, and position | |
| To recognise that groups of words combine to make clauses and include nouns, pronouns, adjectives and verbs and distinguish between statements and questions based on NMF | |
| To engage with imaginative experience by participating in, responding to, and creating a range of texts | |
| To be able to act out texts in appropriate BSL levels | |
| Module D: The role of language | To compare deaf lives in the past with the present |