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makaton help - sign for 'assembly'?

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nuru · 01/09/2009 17:19

hi there
am doing some teacher training at dd2's school tomorrow and wanted to teach them some basic school related signs. does anyone know the sign for 'assembly', please????
thanks!

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nuru · 01/09/2009 20:39

anyone???

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nymphadora · 01/09/2009 20:41

Open hands pointing up facing each other , then bring fingers down folding in to each other. Like everyone coming together ?

RaggedRobin · 01/09/2009 20:44

if no-one comes up with a makaton sign then the bsl sign is as follows:

both hands with palms facing towards the signer, moving towards each other and meeting at the middle of the body. fingers from both hands kind of merge in a downward and outwards motion. i think the fingers represent people coming together. hope that makes sense! i'm not very good at describing these!

RaggedRobin · 01/09/2009 20:45

woops! it took me so long to try to describe that, i see someone beat me to it. nymphadora's sounds like it might be better suited to makaton.

nuru · 01/09/2009 20:55

oh, that's great, thanks!
do the flat hands and fingers end up in a horizontal position (kind of like a 'sit down' sign - but not on top of each other)? otherwise it might look like praying (hopefully not?)

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nymphadora · 01/09/2009 22:31

Robins is prob same as mine but described differently!
Fingers end up going between each other

nuru · 02/09/2009 17:05

thanks a lot for the help! the training went really well and school are keen - great!

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