There were learning opportunities at every turn for children at Hertford Barns Day Nursery in Hertford as they marked Deaf Awareness Week with a series of educational activities.
Inspired by the Coronation of King Charles, pre-schoolers from the award-winning setting on Cole Green explored picture books of the royal family, all whilst learning signs for family members, including ‘grandmother’ for the late Queen and ‘father’ for Prince William.
At the setting, children each have their very own ‘family book’, complete with pictures and labels of family members and their relationships, helping to comfort and aid settling in, as well as support cognitive development and communication and language skills, with tailored books for hearing impaired children, featuring British Sign Language imagery.
As part of the activities, children showcased their creativity by making musical shakers, discussing the sounds they could hear and learning about the power of instruments and their vibrations in helping those with hearing loss to experience music.