Makaton is one way in which Mapledene supports children with hearing or speech impairment. Makaton uses speech with signs (gestures) and symbols (pictures) to help people communicate.
 

Increasingly, Makaton is being used in an inclusive way with all children, not just for those with communication difficulties. It includes using facial expression, eye contact and body language to give as much information as possible. It supports the development of essential communication skills such as attention and listening, comprehension, memory, recall and organisation of language and expression. It uses signs and symbols to help people communicate and is designed to support the development of spoken language primarily. 
 

Makaton enables all children to feel ‘Safety, Commitment, Aspirations’.

Congratulations to our Makaton Champions this year! You have been chosen to share a new sign in assembly each week and champion Makaton throughout school.  

Learn how to sign each weeks new word with Mrs Mason by clicking on the words below:

Each week we learn a new sign: 

We are currently recapping the signs for Colourful Semantics that we use when saying, constructing and writing a sentence.