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By Sign And Shine
Please note: This training is delivered by a third party Tutor NOT The Makaton Charity. For any workshop information, to book, or to make payment please contact the Tutor directly. Level 1 & 2 Combined Workshop (F2F) Level 1 Workshop is the starting point for your Makaton journey, with Level 2 building on the knowledge you gained in Level 1. It is recommended for people who need to use Makaton at home and in their work, to develop the communication skills of others. Content Level 1 & 2 training provides a practical introduction to the Makaton Language Programme and a wider understanding of learning and communication difficulties. The Workshop includes how to start using Makaton in everyday situations; immediate needs, home, familiar people, food, events, activities and objects. You will also discover hints and tips for effective signing and symbol use to maximise communication. Vocabulary will also be introduced which is ideal for the school environment and work places. You will begin to learn more abstract concepts such as spatial locations, attributes, pronouns and actions. Duration Level 1 & 2 combined face to face workshops comprise of a minimum of thirteen learning hours, (minimum of six and a half learning hours per level). Workshops generally will take place over two full day of training. * Deliver method: Venue based. * Maximum number of participants: 12 Accessibility Please indicate if you have any challenges or additional needs, so reasonable adjustments can be made to support your learning and participation. Entry criteria There is no entry criteria for this Workshop. Study materials You will receive a Participant's Manual, which includes the Makaton symbols and signs that you learn in the workshop. You will also be given a certificate of attendance. Please remember to keep your Level 2 training certificate in case you want to attend further Makaton training. Next steps After completing Level 1 & 2 combined training you can continue on your Makaton journey by attending Level 3 or Level 3 & 4 combined training. INSTRUCTIONS This is a combined Level 1 and 2 course. This venue is within walking distance to Guildford mainline and bus stations. The park and ride stops outside this venue and there are several car parks within a 5 minute walk. Refreshments provided throughout the day and plenty of shops and cafes nearby for lunch. Invoice option available for Organisations on booking page. Tutor is also available for in-house workshops - email laura@signandshine.co.uk [laura@signandshine.co.uk] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Privacy Statement [https://files.bookwhen.com/7toh9efoxzta/gzdgqa4sd5q6/uploaded_file] 📎 Privacy_Statement.pdf Terms And Conditions Updated 2022 [https://files.bookwhen.com/7toh9efoxzta/qyoyc9m5ir9w/uploaded_file] 📎 Terms_and_Conditions_updated_2022.pdf
Safeguarding, Guildford (in-person)
By Sign And Shine
Please note: This training is delivered by a third party Tutor NOT The Makaton Charity. For any workshop information, to book, or to make payment please contact the Tutor directly. Safeguarding (F2F) The Makaton Safeguarding workshop is designed to support professionals and carers of children and adults with severe communication and learning disabilities. The workshop builds on existing knowledge of signs and symbols from Level 1 and 2 training, and provides instruction for extra signs and symbols specific to safeguarding situations. Participants are invited to consider differing protocols and practice. The workshop will enable participants to consider how the vocabulary may be safely applied to promote communication for people who use Makaton within a range of levels and contexts. Content This unique workshop provides signs and symbols for a range of vocabulary covering a number of topics: 1. People: family, relationships and people around us 2. Body parts and clothes 3. Places 4. Feelings: feelings, thoughts and behaviours (including bullying and abuse) 5. Sexual behaviour By the end of the workshop you will be able to: 1. Develop a ‘Safeguarding through Makaton’ plan for implementation in your own setting. 2. Demonstrate an understanding of the range of people Makaton users could come into contact with at different ages and stages in their lives; 3. Demonstrate how Makaton can be personalised and used at different levels of complexity to meet individual needs; 4. Identify vocabulary required by a Makaton user and be able to apply the principles of this analysis to the user’s own setting; 5. Demonstrate an understanding of the difference between comments and questions, and an appreciation of how to maintain an interaction with a Makaton user; 6. Describe strategies or methods appropriate to use with a Makaton user to help them understand and use vocabulary or concepts; Duration The Makaton Safeguarding Workshop is made up of 13 learning hours, and is commonly delivered over 2 full days. Alternatively, the Workshop comprises of 4 modules and can be delivered flexibly over a number of weeks to suit participant’s needs. Maximum number of participants: 12 Accessibility Please indicate if you have any challenges or additional needs, so reasonable adjustments can be made to support your learning and participation. Entry criteria Prior to attending the Safeguarding Workshop you must have attended a Level 1 and a Level 2 workshop. In... [Read more] [https://bookwhen.com/signandshine#] Instructions This is a Makaton Safeguarding course. This venue is within walking distance to Guildford mainline and bus stations. The park and ride stops outside this venue and there are several car parks within a 5 minute walk. Refreshments provided throughout the day and plenty of shops and cafes nearby for lunch. Invoice option available for Organisations on booking page. Tutor is also available for in-house workshops - email laura@signandshine.co.uk [laura@signandshine.co.uk] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Privacy Statement [https://files.bookwhen.com/7toh9efoxzta/gzdgqa4sd5q6/uploaded_file] 📎 Privacy_Statement.pdf Terms And Conditions Updated 2022 [https://files.bookwhen.com/7toh9efoxzta/qyoyc9m5ir9w/uploaded_file] 📎 Terms_and_Conditions_updated_2022.pdf
READ AND DISCUSS THIS UPLIFTING STORY ABOUT THE FIRST (AND BEST!) FEMALE PRIVATE DETECTIVE IN BOTSWANA HIGHLIGHTS * Develop your English by reading and speaking about this fun, lively book * 5 hours of live classes to help your spoken fluency and accuracy in English * Read this light, engaging story and discover Africa and African culture * Be corrected by an expert English teacher to remove errors and mistakes Practise and develop your English online in this 5 week upper intermediate book club course using the first book in the The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency series. Each week you read some chapters, discuss them in class and improve specific areas of vocabulary or grammar while also examining literary aspects of the novel. Personalised feedback improves your grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation. THE BOOK CLUB BOOK This book follows the story of Precious Ramotswe who has just started as Botswana's first and only lady private detective. We follow her solving a number of cases - a missing husband, a con man, a problem daughter, and most of all the case of a missing eleven-year-old boy. This is a charming book - a light, comfort read set in Africa, and offering a glimpse into Botswanan life and culture. Among the greatest comfort-reads of all time ― Sunday Times The Miss Marple of Botswana ― New York Times Book Review A rare pleasure ― Daily Telegraph A publishing phenomenon ― Guardian Geoff says: > "This is a best selling and much beloved series of books, and the first novel > is great - introducing us to a wonderful character in Precious Ramotswe.
READ AND DISCUSS TWO GREAT NOVELLAS BY AWARD-WINNING IRISH WRITER CLAIRE KEEGAN HIGHLIGHTS * Join this book club course and gain extra motivation to read in English * 5 hours of live classes to help you develop fluent speaking in English * Read two books and discuss one of Ireland's best contemporary writers * Be corrected by an expert English teacher to remove errors and mistakes Use and improve your English in this 5 week English book club course using Claire Keegan's two short novels Small Things Like These, and Foster. Each week you read some chapters, discuss them in class and improve specific areas of vocabulary or grammar while also examining literary aspects of the novel. Personalised feedback improves your grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation. THE BOOK CLUB BOOK Small Things Like These - in 1985, in an Irish town, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, is coming into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering to the local convent, he makes a discovery which leads him to confront both his own past and the silence of a town controlled by the church. Foster - A girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm, not knowing when she will return home. Here she finds the warmth and comfort she is not used to. But when a secret is revealed, her perfect new existence comes under threat. '[Claire Keegan] creates luminous effects with spare material, so every line seems to be a lesson in the perfect deployment of both style and emotion.' Hilary Mantel 'Exquisite.' Damon Galgut 'Masterly.' The Times 'Miraculous.' Herald 'Astonishing.' Colm Tóibín 'Stunning.' Sunday Independent Geoff says: > "Small Things Like These is an unforgettable story of hope, quiet heroism and > tenderness. Foster is a heartbreaking, haunting story of childhood, loss and > love. Both books are touching; highly recommended"
READ AND DISCUSS POSSIBLY THE GREATEST EVER AMERICAN NOVEL; BOTH HUGELY INFLUENTIAL AND A GREAT READ HIGHLIGHTS * Join this book club course to read & discuss one of the greatest books in English * 5 hours of live classes to help you develop fluent, accurate speaking in English * Read this world-famous novel & discuss the American dream * Be corrected by an expert English teacher to remove errors and mistakes Join this online English language book club course featuring the novel "The Great Gatsby" in this 5 week Zoom course. Each week you read some chapters, discuss them in class and improve specific areas of vocabulary and grammar. You also receive personalised feedback to improve your grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation from an expert English teacher from the UK. The Book Club book The Great Gatsby is a much loved novel covering the themes of the American Dream, responsibility and class. Through the narrator, Nick Carraway, we meet his mysterious neighbour, Jay Gatsby, and relive the dramatic events of the summer of 1922. Gatsby is a triumphant creation, beautifully written by author F Scott Fitzgerald. Geoff says: "This is one of those "must read" novels. The original text is short, poetic and with beautiful imagery and a powerful melancholic tone." >
READ AND DISCUSS THIS INCREDIBLE TRILOGY OF DETECTIVE STORIES - UNLIKE YOU HAVE EVER READ BEFORE! HIGHLIGHTS * Join this English book group course and gain extra motivation to read in English * 5 hours of live classes to help you develop fluent speaking in English * Discuss detective fiction and ideas of writing, identity, language & reality * Be corrected by an expert English teacher to remove errors and mistakes Improve your accuracy and fluency in this 5 week advanced English book group course featuring the collection of Paul Auster's groundbreaking novellas, The New York Trilogy. Each week you read some chapters, discuss them in class and improve specific areas of vocabulary or grammar while also examining literary aspects of the novel. Personalised feedback improves your grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation. THE BOOK CLUB BOOK The New York Trilogy is an astonishing work. It composes three interconnected short novels written in a standard detective fiction style, which collectively manages to be both a gripping read and full of interesting philosophical ideas. It is like reading a cross between Raymond Chandler and Franz Kafka. Our private investigator investigates a case, following clues which lead to some profound conclusions. The New York Trilogy is the modern novel at its finest: bold, astounding, unforgettable. 'Marks a new departure for the American novel.' Observer 'A shatteringly clever piece of work . . . Utterly gripping, written with an acid sharpness that leaves an indelible dent in the back of the mind.' Sunday Telegraph 'The New York Trilogy established him as the only author one could compare to Samuel Beckett.' Guardian GEOFF SAYS: > "Paul Auster died recently and the world lost one of its great authors. This > is three books in one, and almost certainly unlike anything you have ever > read. Great ideas about the self, identity and language, all within the > structure of detective stories. Highly recommended!"
READ AND DISCUSS THIS UPLIFTING STORY ABOUT THE FIRST (AND BEST!) FEMALE PRIVATE DETECTIVE IN BOTSWANA HIGHLIGHTS * Develop your English by reading and speaking about this fun, lively book * 5 hours of live classes to help your spoken fluency and accuracy in English * Read this light, engaging story and discover Africa and African culture * Be corrected by an expert English teacher to remove errors and mistakes Practise and develop your English online in this 5 week upper intermediate book club course using the first book in the The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency series. Each week you read some chapters, discuss them in class and improve specific areas of vocabulary or grammar while also examining literary aspects of the novel. Personalised feedback improves your grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation. THE BOOK CLUB BOOK This book follows the story of Precious Ramotswe who has just started as Botswana's first and only lady private detective. We follow her solving a number of cases - a missing husband, a con man, a problem daughter, and most of all the case of a missing eleven-year-old boy. This is a charming book - a light, comfort read set in Africa, and offering a glimpse into Botswanan life and culture. Among the greatest comfort-reads of all time ― Sunday Times The Miss Marple of Botswana ― New York Times Book Review A rare pleasure ― Daily Telegraph A publishing phenomenon ― Guardian Geoff says: > "This is a best selling and much beloved series of books, and the first novel > is great - introducing us to a wonderful character in Precious Ramotswe.
READ AND DISCUSS CENSORSHIP AND THE POWER OF WORDS IN THIS DRAMATIC, PROPHETIC CLASSIC SET IN THE NEAR FUTURE HIGHLIGHTS * Join this online book club to improve your ability to use English effectively * 5 hours of live classes to help you develop fluent & accurate speaking in English * Discuss this story of censorship and the burning of books * Be corrected by an expert English teacher to remove errors and mistakes Use and improve your English in this 5 week online book club in English course featuring Ray Bradbury's classic work, Fahrenheit 451. Each week you read some chapters, discuss them in class and improve specific areas of vocabulary or grammar while also examining literary aspects of the novel. Personalised feedback improves your grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation. THE BOOK CLUB BOOK Fahrenheit 451 is said to be the temperature at which paper catches fire and burns. The book is a powerful story of one man's struggle with his conscience as he performs his job - burning books. Guy Montag is a fireman - tasked with finding and destroying books which are forbidden, and killing those who preserve and read books. This classic novel is, with Orwell's '1984' and Huxley's 'Brave New World', a powerful critique of aspects of Western civilization, media and politics. Ray Bradbury's powerful and poetic writing still has the power to make us think and reflect on our freedoms. GEOFF SAYS: > "This is a must read novel - a culturally important work that is also a fine > thriller."
