Child Care Practitioner Baby Sign Workshops
Sign and Smile offers training to childcare practitioners in a childcare setting. Our workshops are designed to help settings implement baby signing into their everyday play and care routines.
We run three workshops in total each last 2 hours and we cover the following sign topics in our workshops:
THEORY
Learn the history of signing- studies, practices and methods of signing in the UK
Research of signing and its findings
Learn the scientific findings of signing
Importance of facial expressions, body language etc
Theory of how to sign- this knowledge enables settings to sign themselves, to teach the children in their care how to sign and how to implement signing into their everyday play and care routines
What is baby signing?
The benefits?
Why sign?
What is BSL- history and use
HOW TO TEACH SIGNING
What methods to use- singing, musical instruments, stories, messy play activities, puppets, story sacks, nursery rhymes etc
How to sign with books
Make up your own songs and rhymes
How to engage the little ones with props and puppets etc
The importance of repetition and refreshing
How signing meets EYFS standards and requirements
SIGNS
You will learn 100 sign's and we will cover topics such as:
Family
Feelings and Emotions
Food and Drink
Nappy Changing, Toilet Training and Hygiene
Animals
Transport
Weather
Do Often/Say Often
Plus you will learn the fingerspell alphabet and numbers 1-10
AGE RANGES
Learn what age groups can learn how to sign
Learn how and why you can teach babies, toddlers and preschoolers
Workshop Prices
The total cost for all three workshops is £TBA
Included in the cost of both workshops you will receive the following benefits:
Space to accommodate up to 12 members of staff
A training manual to include sign graphics and information handouts to support the training in the workshop(s)
Members of staff will receive workshop completion certificates
Settings will receive workshop affiliate certificates to place in their setting
You will be given the Baby Sign Hotline telephone number for ongoing telephone support, even once the workshops have ended
You will be eligable to join our Baby Sign Forum where you can ask our Baby Sign Training Teacher questions, share your experiences and progress, receive up to date Baby Signing information, receive hints and tips on how to make the most of your baby signing interactions and receive information on where to get useful signing resources
Optional Extras
If you require more than twelve members of staff to attend our workshops, price per additional head thereafter would cost just £TBA
Where and When?
We run all of our workshops out of hours either weekday evenings or on Saturday's and they can be held at your setting or at a venue of your choice.
(Please note Sign and Smile are not liable to pay venue hire costs should you wish to hold your workshop outside your setting.)
Sign and Smile believes in providing a flexible service, with this in mind, if you have any specific requirements that you feel would be beneficial to your setting, we are happy to discuss these.
If you require any further information or you would like to arrange a no obligation informal meeting, please do not hesitate to contact is either via email signandsmile@live.co.uk or via telephone 07506 683 524.
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