Makaton Monthly, January 2021

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January 2021

Happy New Year!

Founders Membership | Workshop Gift Voucher | News | Your stories | Free resources

Last chance to become a Makaton Founder Member
Founders Membership is only available until 31st January 2021. After this date there will be no further Founders Memberships issued, so don't miss out on this exclusive offer.

Founders Membership gives you access to and download of the Core Vocabulary, plus an additional 700 signs and symbols from the Living and Learning resource, absolutely FREE! You will also gain access to MakaChat community support from our knowledgeable Ambassadors and Tutors, special offers in the shop, and more!

Living and Learning features the following topics:

Timetable Subjects
Geographical Features
Time, Seasons and Weather
Plants and Trees
Body Parts, Senses and Emotions
Structure of Buildings
Household
Energy and Lighting
Materials
Numbers, Portions, Measurements
Computing

Founders Membership

20% off Makaton workshops for Founder Members
We are offering 20% off to Founder Members for all Level 1 to 4 Makaton Workshops booked before the end of 31st January 2021. This discount can only be used on workshops that are run by The Makaton Charity. Access the 20% discount code when you sign into your Founders Membership account.

Workshop discount for Founder Members

Group Founders Membership webinars
On Wednesday 20th January we will be hosting two live webinars, giving a tour of the Group Founders Membership benefits.

Group Membership is perfect for sharing within a family and between professionals, with up to four individual logins. The four logins include all of the Founders Membership benefits plus the facility to share your favourite folders between Group Members, providing continuity of language between the support network and the Makaton User. Great value at £90 per year (£22.50 per year per person).

Join us on the 20th January to find out what Group Membership can offer you, including a Q&A.

Makaton workshop gift voucher now available
New in the Makaton shop! You can now purchase a gift voucher valid for all Level 1 - 4 Makaton Workshops run by The Makaton Charity worth £69. A perfect gift for that hard to buy for Makaton lover!

Workshop gift voucher

Wearing a face mask
Nic and Lily use Makaton to help explain wearing a face mask, including how to sign the UK government Covid-19 advice: Hands. Face. Space. Thanks to Makaton Tutor Nicola Pike for making this video.

Wearing a face mask

Countdown to Christmas: highlights and outtakes
A massive thank you to everyone who took part in our Countdown to Christmas. To help you get through the dark days of January we’ve put together a few highlights and outtakes. Enjoy!

Countdown to Christmas: highlights and outtakes

Head2Head Sensory Theatre
Head2Head Sensory Theatre, create multi-sensory, interactive and accessible theatre for young people with SEND; from curriculum-based installations, to their own take on well-known stories and traditional family pantomimes.

"Over the summer, we produced three separate multi-sensory shows, again all Makaton signed and with accompanying advance packs to help families prepare. For instance, in Beachcombers & Mudlarking there was mucking about in cereal-sand and chocolate-mud; in Toad’s Totally Awesome Adventure discovering slimy pondweed; and in Hatter’s Hectic Tea Dance buttering yummy scones."

Head2Head Sensory Theatre

Our free resources are now stored in the Makaton Library. To access them simply:

Go to makaton.org
Sign in (or create a free account)
Click on Free resources in the burger menu
Click on the Makaton Library button

Free resources