Published:
4:00 PM May 8, 2021
Children at Rushmere Primary School all took part in Deaf Awareness Week by wearing green
- Credit: Sarah Lucy Brown
An Ipswich school, which teaches the greatest number of deaf children in Suffolk, is taking steps to ensure all their pupils grow up with deaf role models and a positive outlook.
Rushmere Hall Primary School teaches 13 pupils who are deaf and has specially trained teachers of the deaf (ToD) as a specialist resource base, as well as British Sign Language (BSL) clubs and classes.
Children showing us the word love in sign language
- Credit: Sarah Lucy Brown
Published:
4:00 PM May 8, 2021
Children at Rushmere Primary School all took part in Deaf Awareness Week by wearing green
- Credit: Sarah Lucy Brown
An Ipswich school, which teaches the greatest number of deaf children in Suffolk, is taking steps to ensure all their pupils grow up with deaf role models and a positive outlook.
Rushmere Hall Primary School teaches 13 pupils who are deaf and has specially trained teachers of the deaf (ToD) as a specialist resource base, as well as British Sign Language (BSL) clubs and classes.
Children showing us the word love in sign language
- Credit: Sarah Lucy Brown
Published:
4:35 PM May 7, 2021
Children at Sprites Primary Academy in Ipswich wore green to support Deaf Awareness Week
- Credit: Sprites Primary Academy
Children at Sprites Primary Academy in Ipswich had a Green Day for Deaf Awareness Week.
Youngsters were allowed to come to school in non-uniform and asked to wear a green item, in return for a £1 donation to Ipswich Deaf Children s Society.
Children at Sprites Prime Academy on their Green Day for Deaf Awareness
- Credit: Sprites Primary Academy
Sprites Primary Academy took part in the national week, which this year runs from May 4-9, with lessons and activities to raise awareness of the lives of people with hearing loss and their families.
Published:
11:30 AM May 7, 2021
Updated:
12:15 PM May 7, 2021
Gusford Primary School reception class, with teacher Sarah Vines and Bobby Hambling in the middle row, right in the centre wearing blue glasses and blue long sleeves under his t-shirt.
- Credit: Gusford Primary School
An Ipswich primary school took part in deaf awareness day in support of a classmate, who suffers from mixed hearing loss.
Bobby Hambling inspired all 30 pupils in his reception class at Gusford Community Primary School to wear Ipswich Deaf Children’s Society t-shirts on Monday, May 3.
Laura Hambling, Bobby’s mum and a nurse at Ipswich Hospital, said: “Bobby’s dad and I are really happy that the school gives Bobby the opportunity to stay in mainstream education like his siblings.
Published:
11:30 AM May 7, 2021
Updated:
12:15 PM May 7, 2021
Gusford Primary School reception class, with teacher Sarah Vines and Bobby Hambling in the middle row, right in the centre wearing blue glasses and blue long sleeves under his t-shirt.
- Credit: Gusford Primary School
An Ipswich primary school took part in deaf awareness day in support of a classmate, who suffers from mixed hearing loss.
Bobby Hambling inspired all 30 pupils in his reception class at Gusford Community Primary School to wear Ipswich Deaf Children’s Society t-shirts on Monday, May 3.
Laura Hambling, Bobby’s mum and a nurse at Ipswich Hospital, said: “Bobby’s dad and I are really happy that the school gives Bobby the opportunity to stay in mainstream education like his siblings.