DPE Sessions

DEAF PEER EDUCATION (DPE) SESSIONS

All of the Deaf children have a daily session in the Deaf Base classroom to work alongside their Deaf peers. These sessions are bespoke to the children’s needs and include topics they may need additional experience of, Deaf culture and language development activities.

In this term’s DPE sessions the children will be learning about:

Current affairs and news around the world.
Language development, 'collective nouns' and visual literacy.
'How to be extraordinary' - Famous and inspirational people.
Multi-channel signs.
Deaf role models - creating fact files about them and hopefully meeting some.
Black History Month

Friday 14th July

Today is our Summer fair. We are really excited!

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Thursday 13th July

Today we went on our Deaf Base trip to The West Midlands Safari park.

We all had a brilliant day and learned lots about habitats and all about animal living in the wild.

Abbas said "It's the best day"!!

Moday 10th July

Today in Homonyms we looked at 'jam'

Did you know that jam is in the words traffic jam? and doesn't mean the same as spreading jam on our toast.

Monday 3rd July

Today was our school tranisition day, We were all excited to meet our new teachers.

Friday 30th June.

Today in PUDs we carried on looking at road safety.

Do you know the rules when crossing the road?

Wednesday 28th June.

More of the picture has been revealed, look at all of our ideas..

a witch
birds
alien

Were so excited to see what was revealed!

What do you think could be revealed next?

Tuesday 27th June.

Lots of partner work, discussing what we thought was going on in the picture. There were some lovely ideas.

We looked at the 5 ws today.

Monday 26th June

In building imagination today this is the picture that we have. What do you think is behind the red door?

Ideas we have collected:

Bedroom, outside, new world, magical fairies, stables with horses.....

Watch this space to find out...

Friday 23rd June

In Puds today, we learned more about keeping safe when we cross the roads.

We know we must always stay with an adult to cross the road.

Monday 19th June

Today in idioms, we recapped some of the idioms we have previously learned. Such as:

it's raining cats and dogs. (Raining very heavily)

and

hold your horses. (have some patience)

Today's idiom is 'it's in one ear and out the other ear' (meaning they're not paying attention)

Friday 16th June

Our year 5 child was telling us all about her visit to Pakistan.

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Wednesday 14th June

Today, we held our annual inspire day where all the deaf children in the Walsall borough were invited to join us.

We had the animal man in and the children really enjoyed it.

Monday 12th June

Today in homonyms we looked at watch, Wow!

we didnt realise there were so many different meanings.

Friday 9th June

Today year 3 went to Dudley canals for their Geography trip.

Leo loved it.

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Thursday 8th June

In Geography we are learning all about tornados,

Here's our year 5 pupil telling you all about them.

Monday 5th June

Welcome back to school, we are in Summer term 2 now.

We hope that you had a wonderful time.

Friday 26th May

Today we celebrated the children's successes in achieving their targets, reading and 55 club. They were so happy.

Just to remind you that next week is half term .

The children return Tuesday 6th June.

Happy Holidays!

Monday 22nd May

Today Homonym is 'called'

an example:

I have 'called' my mum.

My dog is 'called' Hunter.

The children are beginning to understand that although some words are spelt the same they have different meanings.

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Our year 5 child will tell you why its not safe to cross behind parked vehicles.

Friday 19th May

Today in PUDS we were learning about safe places to cross the road, we then had a quiz to test our knowledge.

Monday 15th May.

Today in Homonyms we have been learning about the word cross.

I never realised that so there were so many words that sound the same and mean completley diffrent things,

Friday 12th May.

This afternoon in PUDs we learned about the green cross code.

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Our year 2 child will tell you what they think will happen in the story. This is called a prediction.

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Tuesday 9th May

Our year 3 child will tell you the features of our new book 'The Flower.'

To conclude this year's Deaf Awareness week, try this fingerspelling challenge.

Answer:

Deaf, Awareness, skill, practise

We can be anything we want to be!

Friday 5th May

Wednesday 3rd May

How lucky were we? For Deaf Awareness week we had a very special visitor. One of our Deaf role models.

Fletch came to our school to teach us a signed song, then our Deaf children got up in assembly and taught the whole school. Wow!!

Let's teach the world to sign.

Have a go at this fingerspelling challenge.

Answer:

School. fingers, sign. language

You can be anything you want to be.

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Tuesday 2nd May.

"When I was just a little girl, I wanted to be so many different things. An Air Hostess. A writer. A teacher. I was told it would be a challenge for me to do these jobs because I am Deaf. This just made me want it more. I had a wonderful Teacher of the Deaf named Sally Watson and I wanted to be just like her. She was my role model when I was growing up. I am now a LSA and work with Deaf children and I love it! " Miss Mitchell

Monday 1st May

Deaf Awareness week.

Let' s kick off Deaf Awareness week with a lovely story 'Can Bears Ski?'

(signed by Rose Ayling Ellis on BBC bedtime stories)

Click on the link below.

https://youtu.be/1EjR1tNxyeA

Friday 28th April.

We are learning all about road safety.

Do you know how to cross the road safely?

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The children telling you all about road safety.

Tuesday 25th - Thursday 27th April.

The children are learning all about Sir David Attenborough.

What do you know about him?

Monday 24th April.

The children are really beginning to understand and were able to give examples of Homonyms.

Friday 21st April.

Today we have looked at pupil voice, the children gave their opions about 3'o clock time.

Leo said how he likes learning about 'Deaf Role Models'

Tuesday 18th - Thursday 20th April.

This week we have been looking at characters and predictions about the story 'Meerkat Mail'.

Monday 17th April

Today we have started learning about Homonyms. The children really enjoyed this.

Happy Easter everyone.

We hope everyone has a lovely Easter.

Monday 27th March - Friday 31st March

It' s our Deaf role model week, the children are really excited to learn all about Laurentia Tan. Do you know who she is and why she is inspirational?

Friday 24th March

In PUDS the children created the inside of our ears. Abbas created the bones and showed us how it worked.

Tuesday 21st - Thursday 23rd March.

This week we have been learning about a person called San Lau Wu.

She lived in Hong Kong and was a scientist.

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Monday 20th March.

Today's multi channel sign is 'take no notice' watch our year 5 child explain.

Saturday 18th March

Happy 10th Birthday!

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Friday 17th March

Our year 5 children went to the Think Tank today in Birmingham, I'll let our year 5 child tell you all about it.

Wednesday 15th- Thursday 16th March.

Mr Page signed the story 'Meerkat Mail' to the children.

Have you ever read it?

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Monday 13th March

Today in Idioms we learned the idiom for stop pulling my leg.

Do you know what that means?

Our year 5 pupil will tell you.

It means stop teasing me.

Wednesday 8th March

The children were desperate to go and touch the snow, so we ran round the area by the Deaf base for 1 minute. They loved it.

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.

Tuesday 7th - 9th March

This week we have been learning more about animals and their habitats. We then did an animal sorting activity.

What's your favourite animal?

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Monday 6th March

Today in multi channels we learned the multi channel sign fantastic. Watch our year 5 child signing and explaining the multi channel sign.

Friday 3rd March

We had a lovely afternoon walking up to King Charles Primary to use the immersion room. Year 5 signed their Ancient Greek reports, Year 3 their story about 'The secret of Black Rock'. Our year 2 child read his non-chronological report about inuits.

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Tuesday 28th February - Thursday 2nd March.

This week we have been learning about different types of animals.

Monday 27th February.

Today we had an Idioms session,

We learned what the idiom 'don't let the cat out of the bag means'.

Friday 17th February

Today we concluded our Ancient Greek History topic. Our year 5 children have loved learning about the Ancient Greeks. Here is a picture of Abbas 's work. He told me that he liked Zeus as he was the god of the sky.

Thursday 16th February.

In our PSHE lessons we have been learning about helping others, we collected some food and took it to our local food bank. The children were amazed at the process.

Have a wonderful half term!

Tuesday 14th - Thursday 16th February.

This week we are looking at healthy minds. We have been looking at different feelings and the children made a cube with them on.

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Monday 13th February

Today was multi- channels.

We learn't the multi channel sign for 'gained knowledge'.

Our year 5 child explains it lovely.

Wednesday 8th February -

Friday 10th Febraury.

Building Imigination

This week we have been making predictions about a picture. Our year 5 child will tell you all about it.

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Tuesday 7th February

'Building imagination'

The children were guessing what was in the suitcase, they gave lots of ideas about clothes and shoes.

Monday 6th February

This week we are working on building our imagination.

Can you guess what this picture is about?

The children gave their ideas and said:

windy, tree swaying, maybe in Africa,

Friday 3rd February

Today we have labeled parts of the ear.

Do you know where your Pinna is?

Thursday 2nd February.

Today we continued learning about vehicles and their signs.

Tuesday 31st January

Today in Deaf peers Education we looked at vehicles and their signs.

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Monday 30th January.

Today in multi channels, we reacapped what we have previously learned. We then learned the new multi channel sign for

'oh I see'

Watch the video below.

One of our Year 5 pupils signed what it means.

Friday 27th January

Today in PUDS we learnt all about the ear, we looked at the inside of the ear and learnt how sound is carried.

Wednesday 25th January

Mr Page shared the story 'Whatever Next' with the children.

There was lots of discussion about where the bear was going and what the children thought was happening in the pictures.

Monday 23rd January.

Today we looked at features of a book and made predictions about what our new story book is about.

The story book is 'Peace at last' by Jill Murphy.

Friday 20th January

We are learning about sounds in PUDS.

Tuesday 17th January - Thursday 19th January.

This week we are learning all about David Notts.

Did you know that he was a surgeon?

Another interesting fact is that he gave his services for free.

Friday 13th January

Today in PUDS we talked about the particles in sound and how sound moves.

Thursday 12th January

Today we created our fact files about Nikita and put our pictures in our books.

Wednesday 11th January.

Today we welcomed a very special visitor into our Deaf Base as part of our Role models topic.

Meet 'Nikita Hitchen' an absolute inspiration to Deaf children everywhere. She has been so busy lately, winning the World Cup in Italy. She plays futsal for the England Deaf Ladies Futsal Team. What's amazing is that she found time to come and see us at Bentley West! Thank you Nikita.

We're very proud of you Nikita! Nikita came to Bentley West School as a child and had lots of favourite memories to share.

If you would like further information about England Deaf Futsal Team, then click on the link below.

https://englanddeaffutsal.co.uk/

Tuesday 10th January

Guess what?

We're so excited to announce that we have our next Deaf role model coming into school tomorrow.

Have a guess and think who it may be? There are clues on the picture.

Monday 9th January

Today in Idioms we looked at the Idiom 'he has butterflies in his stomach' Do you know what it means?

It really means 'he is really nervous'

Did you get it right?

Friday 6th January

This afternoon we looked at pupil voice.

Leo said how he likes DPE sessions.

Abbas said how he likes meeting our 'Deaf role models'

Thursday 5th January

Today we went to Wolverhampton Grand Theatre to see the performance of Aladdin.

Abbas said he "was happy and excited, I liked it"

Arooj said she enjoyed the panto "laugh and funny"

Leo said "liked boo, boo was funny"

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Wednesday 4th January

We have been learning about Aladdin in preparation for the pantomime tomorrow.

We're of to see the Wizard, the wonderful wizard of Oz ....... oh no were not.

Tomorrow we are going to the pantomime to watch Aladdin.

Were very excited!

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Wednesday 4th January

Happy new year!

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Merry Christmas Everyone.

Tuesday 20th December

Happy 7th Birthday!

Friday 16th December

Elfis the elf brought our children a gift.

See you next year!

Thursday 15th December

Today our Elf left us some some decorations to paint for our tree.

He's being really good now.

Monday 12th - 14th December.

We have been learning about the Christmas story.

Did you know that Jesus was born in a manger?

Wednesday 7th December

The children liked the panto.

Leo said '"ts was very funny"

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Tuesday 6th December

Oh my goodness me!

Our year 3 child will tell you what happened!!

Oh no, he has used all the toilet paper. He's in trouble now!

Monday 5th December

Well what a morning it has been! We very very shocked and cross at our elf Elfis this morning. He wrote all over our display and took pictures of the wall. The children were not impressed.

What has your elf been up to?

Friday 2nd December

Happy 10th Birthday to you!

We hope that you have a lovely day.

Friday 2nd December

Oh no!! looks like Elfis is trying to climb up the wall and into year 5.

Thursday 1st December

Happy 8th Birthday to you!

We hope you have an amazing day today!

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Thursday 1st December

Our elf on the shelf Elfis has made a return. It can only mean one thing.... Christmas is nearly here.

What is your elf getting up to?

Wednesday 30th November - Thursday 1st December

During our DPE session we are building our imaginations. The children have come up with lots of ideas about what is happening in the snippet of the picture.

Did you have any predictions to what was happening?

Tuesday 29th November

What do you think is happening in this snippet?

(Building imagination)

Monday 28th November

We are starting to get ready for our next Deaf role model visit.

Can you think of any questions?

Do you know who this is?

Friday 25th November

Wow! What a celebration it has been today, celebrating IEP targets being achieved and Stage words. Well done Abbas and Leo.

The children also celebrated their successful week at school saying what they have enjoyed most.

We're really proud of you all.

Tuesday 22nd November

We have started learning about Michelle Obama in our DPE session. Do you know who she is? Do you know where she lives?

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Monday 21st November

This week we recapped previously taught multi-channel signs. Do you know what this one means?

It means 'At last', were you right?

Tuesday 15th - Thursday 17th November

This week we have been learning the signs for lots of different jewellery.

Monday 14th November

Multi-channel signs

This week we have looked at the multi-channel sign 'Give it a go/have a go/try it'

Here's our year 5 pupil telling you all about it.

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Friday 11th November

We have been working on Pupil Voice. The children have had a lot to say.

Abbas said how he was good at football, music and playing computer games.

What are you good at?

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Wednesday 9th - Thursday 10th November

Story time with Mr Page, our story was Emily Brown and the thing. There was lots of noises in the story.

Did you know that a noise that is the same as the word are called Onomatopoeias?

The children are showing you splish splash and rumble.

Tuesday 8th November

Today Mr Page discussed Remembrance Day with the children, they spoke about why it was important for us to remember.

Friday 4th November - Monday 7th November

We have been looking at pupil voice, we discussed school and looked at areas such as:

What makes us happy?

What a good day looks like.

The children enjoyed expressing their views.

Friday 4th November.

What a Star!

A big well done to Abbas who was star of the week.

Wednesday 2nd - Thursday 3rd November.

We have been learning all about Bonfire night and Guy Fawkes. Did you know that they used gunpowder to try and blow the Houses of Parliament up?

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Wednesday 2nd November

Happy 10th Birthday!

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Tuesday 2nd November.

The children were so keen to share their holiday news.

What did you do last week?

Monday 31st October.

It's Halloween today and the children were really excited about the Halloween disco. (no session due to assembly)

What did you dress up as? drop us a comment in the comment section.

Happy Halloween!

The children closed their eyes for the big picture reveal.

3,2,1 open your eyes!

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Thursday 20th October

The anticipation has been building over the last few days about what we predict the picture is about. The children were amazed and so excited.

Were you right with your prediction?

What prediction can you make from this picture?

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Tuesday 18th - Thursday 20th October.

This week we are learning how to build our imaginations. We are making predictions from a picture.

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Monday 17th October

Today the children looked at our reading recommendations. Leo decided that he wanted to read Supertato.

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Friday 14th October

Well what a wonderful week we've had in the Deaf base!

We're going to let Arooj tell you all about Fletch, please have a look.

Well done to all the children they remembered lots of facts about Fletch and wrote a fact file.

Wednesday 12th October.

Today we welcomed a very special visitor into our Deaf Base as part of our Role models topic.

Meet 'Fletch' an absolute inspiration to Deaf children everywhere. Fletch is a Deaf BSL teacher and a sign sing performer she has been so busy lately working with Ed Sheeran.

What's amazing is that she found time to come and see us at Bentley West! Thank you Fletch.

Fletch came to Bentley West School as a child and had lots of favourite memories to share. Thank you Fletch.

If you would like further information about Fletch, then click on the link below.

https://www.fletchbsl.co.uk/signsong-performer

Tuesday 11th - Thursday 13th October

This week in our Deaf role models session, we have been learning all about Fletch, She is one of our role models and is coming in to school to see us. The children are preparing lots of questions to ask her.

We're so excited to meet Fletch.

Monday 10th October.

Today we looked at the Deaf base book recommendations. The children are really excited to look at our recommendations and had some of their own. Leo said he liked Peppa Pig.

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Friday 7th October

Sound.

We have been learning about hearing and how sound travels.

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Tuesday 4th October - Thursday 6th October

This week we are starting to learn about Black History Month and what it means.

Monday 3rd October

Today we have learnt the multi-channel sign for 'i don't understand'.

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Friday 30th September.

What an exciting Friday!

Its Celebration time!

Leo was so excited.... He got his stage 7 spellings certificate and completed 2 of his IEP targets.

WOW!! well done Leo!

Tuesday 27th - Thursday 29th September

We have been learning all about Mo Farah, we now know lots of information about him.

What do you know about him?

Our sign for Mo Farah.

Learning all about Mo Farah.

Monday 26th September

Can you remember these multi-channel signs?

Sound - PUDs

Friday 23rd September

The children continued to think about the sounds around them this week. They sorted them into loud and quiet sounds. The children were very confident with their answers.

Sound -

Personal Understanding of Deafness (PUD)

Friday 16th September

In this module of PUDs we are discussing sound. The children were thinking of things around them that made noise. We listen to some of the sound the children listed. The sound made by fast cars was Abbas' particular favourite.

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Monday 12th September

This week we have recapped some of the previous multi-channel signs we learnt last year. Can you remember what this one was?

it means 'gobsmacked'.

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