Auslan Report

Welcome to our final Auslan newsletter for 2025! All students have been busy learning their last topics and revising content for the year. During the last few weeks Grade Preps have covered topics and learned Auslan signs for Time, Jobs, Seasons, Handshapes, Storytelling and Celebrations. Grades 1-6 students learned signs about On the Weekend, Opposites, Handshapes, Going to the Beach, Sign Language and Parties. All students will do reflections and revise the Auslan signs learnt throughout the term and the year. 

Grade Preps engaged in learning that included constructed action, combining signs to expand Auslan communication, extend on previously taught handshapes, the use of depicting signs and constructed action in storytelling and understanding and issues related to deaf culture and the Auslan language. The activities to support their learning involved working in groups to do the seasons and weather signs, signing the handshape poem and forming the handshapes correctly, enacting and retelling the Little Green Frog story with Auslan, playing the ‘guessing the celebration signs' game and ‘the four corners game’. All tasks provided opportunities for Grade Preps to develop confidence in building their skills in Auslan communication. 

Grade 1-6 students worked on developing their skills by engaging in activities that focused on revising their knowledge of signing the days of the week and family signs, working with a partner to assist in completing Auslan tasks, relating handshapes to signs, using mime/constructed action, learn that English-speaking countries have different sign languages from each other, understand the use of Auslan phrases by combining known signs and being receptive by reading back known signs. Tasks supported learning by including group and partner work, playing games to encourage practising signs, watching videos for visual support when learning the signs and extending Auslan vocabulary. 

Auslan will continue as a LOTE subject in 2026 for all students at Melton West Primary School. Students will be exposed and experience learning more content and new topics. They will continue to consolidate learning, build skills in communicating and expressing in Auslan and understand the significance of having knowledge to communicate with the deaf community. Well done to all students for participating in their Auslan learning this year! We look forward teaching and learning Auslan in 2026.