Languages- Auslan

 Communicating with the Specialist Team

We look forward to partnering with you in 2025, and welcome your input:

Amanda Oakley (Languages- Auslan) Amanda.Oakley2@education.vic.gov.au

Shar Stjerne (Languages- Auslan) Shar.Stjerne@education.vic.gov.au 

 Term Two 2025

Our Term Two focus is 'Travel and Transport'

Our display wall featuring the Year 5 and 6 posters

Foundation

Foundation students have spent the last couple of weeks revising the term's learning. We have been playing games and building with materials such as blocks, unifix, and lego to focus on number, colour, and travel signs. They have been enjoying the challenge of 'colour by number' in with Auslan numbers and have done an amazing job transferring their visual understanding of a number to the printed picture of the number sign.

Year One

Year One students have been extending their use of number signs by using manipulatives, playing 'I spy' and communicating with each other what number they have, and watching to understand what the other person has. They continue to expand their ability in expressive and receptive Auslan skills.

Year Two

The Year Two students have been working in small groups to sign information about their collections. They have been including colour and number in the information that they communicate in Auslan. They have been playing a range of games to revise all learning from Term One and Term Two through games such as 'card memory', 'I spy' and 'fishing' games.

Year Three and Four

The Year Three and Four students have built our townships with vehicles, streets, shops and packages. The students have been successfully delivering packages from different shops to houses with all of our learning from the term. They earned lots of house points and have had a great experience using their Auslan knowledge to describe packages, choose vehicles, and fingerspell addresses. Well done on a great term.

Year Five and Six

The Year Five and Six students have been creating posters in response to "Talk Under Water", a novel by Kathryn Lomer, in which a hearing boy meets a deaf girl and the challenges that they face in communicating. They have each made some excellent connections to the story and how it presents understanding different languages and communities. In the story, Will knows the language of sailing but doesn't know the language of cricket. The students were able to connect to this idea as a way of understanding how we communicate differently with different people, hearing, Deaf or otherwise.