Makaton Friendly School –15/6/2015

We are proud to announce that Deerpark Primary School has been awarded Makaton Friendly School Status.

Makaton is a language programme using signs and symbols to help people to communicate. It is designed to support spoken language and the signs and symbols are used with speech, in spoken word order.

For the last year, Primary 2 children have been learning different Makaton signs, singing songs with Makaton signs and teaching two signs of the week to the whole school during assemblies. Click here to see who our signers of the week are.

We also recognise signers of the week from each class. Children are now using Makaton signs throughout the school day with each other and staff. Visit our Makaton Sign page to find out what our sign of the week is.