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Eurocamp are once again helping us deliver an amazing 7-day holiday prize to one lucky sign2singer and their family. They have over 180 prime locations, from beach and city breaks, to stays amongst mountains and lakes.
There’s also loads of activities and entertainment on-parc, including epic pool complexes and free kids clubs. All sign2sing participants can enter here on our website for a chance to win.
Eurocamp are once again helping us deliver an amazing 7-day holiday prize to one lucky sign2singer and their family. They have over 180 prime locations, from beach and city breaks, to stays amongst mountains and lakes.
There’s also loads of activities and entertainment on-parc, including epic pool complexes and free kids clubs. All sign2sing participants can enter on our website for a chance to win very soon!
We have now selected our winner for 2018, a lucky individual who came to us from James Wolfe School!
Check back next year for more competitions and of course- sign2sing for 2019.
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We would like to take this opportunity to say a special thank you to the family of June Duckworth, who died on 28th March 2017 aged 84 years old. A collection was held during the memorial service and June’s husband Norman has very kindly decided to donate £500 of the money raised to sign2sing. This donation is gratefully appreciated and will be used to produce the sign2sing resource packs and DVDs. Many schools find it very difficult to access online resources and these DVDs are vital for making the event accessible to everyone.
June was a teacher and passionate about music, despite being partially deafened as a child, so her family felt that sign2sing would be the kind of event she would’ve enjoyed. June’s husband Norman has very kindly shared some information about June’s life:
June Lily Duckworth was born on 22nd June 1932 and enjoyed many adventures during her lifetime. June’s young life was somewhat disrupted World War II – she was evacuated for a while to Hampshire (near to Winchester) to stay with her uncle, a head teacher – and an event in 1944 effected June considerably.
When June was out walking with her father, a sergeant in the Home Guard, they both heard what had that summer had become the dreaded absence of sound with the cutting-out of a rocket engine overhead. As the Doodlebug plummeted to earth, Andrew threw himself and his daughter to the ground. While both survived the explosion of the rocket, June’s hearing proved to have been compromised and in later life she suffered from significant hearing loss.
June never let her hearing loss hold her back and she went on to study teacher training at a college of St Osyth at Clacton in Essex. She continued to teach in Essex for a number of years before moving to Corsham in Wiltshire with her husband Norman, where she taught in the local school.
Music was an enormously large part of June’s life – she was an accomplished cellist (who as a young woman secured a place at the Guildhall School of Music) and a pianist. She and her husband were great music lovers and attended concerts, opera and ballet performances in Bath or Bristol whenever they could.
You can read the full memorium here.
On 10th February 2017 over 400 pupils and staff from Grove Primary School and the Warren school in Lowestoft took part in a special sign2sing assembly, all via video link.
In early afternoon, 11 delegates from Grove made their way to the Special School in Lowestoft where they were warmly welcomed by their respective buddies. They were first showed round the school before being invited to take part in a range of sign language games and activities.
Just after 1.30pm children and staff from both Grove and Warren made their way to their respective Sports Hall before a Skype link was established at 1.45pm. Modern technology enabled children and staff from both establishments to welcome and greet each other using sign language as well as teach each other songs that they had learnt as part of the sign2sing challenge. The event culminated in a grand finale during which children and staff from both schools simultaneously signed and sang this year’s sign2sing anthem “We are better off together”.
The event was facilitated by David Baker (Head of Grove) and Jan Bird (Head of Warren) and jointly organised by Catherine Godet (Grove) and Elizabeth Bloice (Warren). “This was an amazing opportunity for all students and staff from both schools to share a wonderful experience” said Elizabeth. “It was an emotional and memorable moment for all involved and it was great to be breaking new grounds as the sign2sing team were not aware of any schools having ever done this before” added Catherine.
A big thank you goes to all the staff and pupils in both schools for their enthusiasm. We are particularly grateful to Emma, Tom and Kelly for their support.
You can see a video of the day here: https://youtu.be/m44z3Ri001A
Main photo: Mission Grove School in Walthamstow
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