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Home Art & Design Ballet, Dance & Drama Business Studies Childcare & Care Craft Deaf Studies - BSL ESOL Family Learning - Free Food Studies Humanities IT - Internet & Office IT - Web/Graphic Design Interpreting Languages Learning Disabilities Lipreading Maths & English Metal Work Motor Vehicle Music Older Learners & Agewell Health & Fitness Pilates, Yoga & Tai Chi Mentoring - Free Woodwork & Upholstery

Term dates

Autumn Term
Starts: Mon 13 Sep 2010
Half Term: Mon 25 Oct - Sat 30 Oct 2010
Ends: Sat 11 Dec 2010

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Our centres

Macbeth Centre (MAC)
Macbeth Street
W6 9JJ
020 8846 9090

Sands End (SAN)
59 Broughton Road
SW6 2LE
020 7736 1724

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British Sign Language

British Sign Language, (BSL) and Deaf Awareness

See Lipreading for: Lipreading

See Interpreting for: Diploma in Public Service Interpreting, (DPSI) and Bi-lingual skills

See Languages for: Modern Foreign Languages

See Learning and Physical Disabilities for: Personal Development, Café and Gardening Project, Pottery, Sewing, Computers, Dance, Drama and Music, Art, Drawing and Painting


Programme manager

Angelo Cappetta
angelo.cappetta@lbhf.gov.uk

For hearing, hard of hearing and deaf people.

Interviews for new BSL students are by appointment only.
Please call 0845 839 7912 to book a time, or alternatively book an interview online.

It may be possible to pay course fees by regular installments throughout your course, instead of paying the full amount at the start. Please ask about installment plans when you enrol.

Further education/qualification classes
Courses with a blue band are accredited and are aimed at those who would like to work towards a nationally recognised qualification. The exam fee is included in the course fee for all qualification courses.

Courses leading to a qualification will require an interview before you can enrol. Book an interview online.

Concessions
If you are entitled to a concessionary fee and join any accredited course, you will receive a £20 discount for every additional accredited course you join.

To help pay for course fees and materials, it may be possible to apply for the Learner Support Fund.

New Interview Dates available NOW

Tuesday 7 Sep 2010 - Mac
Thursday 9 Sep 2010 - Mac

Courses start in September 2010

Book an interview online.
  

Quick course list

 
BSL Level 1BSL 102
BSL Level 103BSL Level 2
BSL Level 2 (year 2)
 

Complete course list

BSL Level 1   (Interview required)
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This qualification, accredited by the Council for the Advancement of Communication with Deaf People (CACDP), is designed to enable learners to communicate with deaf people in British Sign Language on a range of topics that involve simple, everyday language. The specification has been designed to be consistent with the National Language Standards at Level 1. For full details, download the Qualification Specification from www.cacdp.org.uk  More information...
Fees   full £395   conc £224   non EU £836
Day   Time   Weeks   Centre   Start   End   Code
Mon   13:00-15:00   32   MAC   13/09/10   18/07/11   LZ1025
Tutor:  Linda Anne Brine   
Thu   18:45-20:45   32   TBC   16/09/10   07/07/11   LZ1026
Tutor:  Brian Davies   
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BSL 102   (Interview required)
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This qualification, accredited by the Council for the Advancement of Communication with Deaf People (CACDP), is designed to enable learners to communicate with deaf people in British Sign Language on a range of topics that involve simple, everyday language. The specification has been designed to be consistent with the National Language Standards at Level 1. For full details, download the Qualification Specification from www.cacdp.org.uk  More information...
Fees   full £200   conc £68   non EU £552
Day   Time   Weeks   Centre   Start   End   Code
Tue   18:45-20:45   22   PHO   14/09/10   29/03/11   LZ1035
Tutor:  Con McCormack   
Thu   18:45-20:45   22   PHO   16/09/10   31/03/11   LZ1036
Tutor:  Con McCormack   
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BSL Level 103   (Interview required)
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This qualification, accredited by the Council for the Advancement of Communication with Deaf People (CACDP), is designed to enable learners to communicate with deaf people in British Sign Language on a range of topics that involve simple, everyday language. The specification has been designed to be consistent with the National Language Standards at Level 1. For full details, download the Qualification Specification from www.cacdp.org.uk  More information...
Fees   full £100   conc £34   non EU £276
Day   Time   Weeks   Centre   Start   End   Code
Tue   13:00-15:00   11   MAC   14/09/10   30/11/10   LZ1045
Tutor:  Con McCormack   
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BSL Level 2   (Interview required)
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"This course is designed to enable learners to develop an ability to communicate with deaf people using BSL in a range of familiar contexts, participating in longer and more open-ended exchanges than at level 1. The course will develop functional communication in BSL about a range of real life, routine, and daily experiences. The learner will be able to deal with most routine language tasks and have sufficient grasp of grammar to cope with some non-routine tasks. The content of the CACDP level 2 award will contain four themes: about you; eating and drinking; shopping and spending; travel and holidays. All learners will study the first theme and two of the other three. The specification has been designed to be consistent with the National Language Standards at Level 2. For full details, download the Qualification Specification from www.cacdp.org.uk "  More information...
Fees   full £606   conc £281   non EU £1162
Day   Time   Weeks   Centre   Start   End   Code
Thu   13:00-16:00   32   MAC   16/09/10   07/07/11   LZ1050
Tutor:  Linda Anne Brine   
Fri   18:00-21:00   32   MAC   17/09/10   08/07/11   LZ1051
Tutor:  Brian Davies   
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BSL Level 2 (year 2)   (Interview required)
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"This course is designed to enable learners to develop an ability to communicate with deaf people using BSL in a range of familiar contexts, participating in longer and more open-ended exchanges than at level 1. The course will develop functional communication in BSL about a range of real life, routine, and daily experiences. The learner will be able to deal with most routine language tasks and have sufficient grasp of grammar to cope with some non-routine tasks. The content of the CACDP level 2 award will contain four themes: about you; eating and drinking; shopping and spending; travel and holidays. All learners will study the first theme and two of the other three. The specification has been designed to be consistent with the National Language Standards at Level 2. For full details, download the Qualification Specification from www.cacdp.org.uk "  More information...
Fees   full £210   conc £98   non EU £562
Day   Time   Weeks   Centre   Start   End   Code
Wed   18:45-20:45   22   TBC   15/09/10   30/03/11   LZ1060
Tutor:  Con McCormack   
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