This year the Otago Team have offered new learning environments at the Beacon School and Playgroup and continued quality Hub and Outreach Services.

The Beacon School gets off the ground at Halfway Bush. Ko Taku Reo students learn and play alongside hearing peers with the support of a full-time Resource Teacher of the Deaf, Communication Education Support Workers, NZSL tutor and class soundfield systems. The whole school learn about sign language and Deaf Culture.

Jamieson Skinley listens and watches Poppy

Janelle talks to school using Roger Technology with Poppy Interpreting

Classroom Soundfield Systems at Halfway Bush

Gemma Ellis and Beca Harper have enjoyed setting up the new playgroup which takes place every Thursday from 9am until noon. We have a growing number of families attending who enjoying coming together each week for music and stories and a chance to connect.

Beca Harper shows Charlotte Oliver her dog, Winston.

Gemma Ellis and Charlotte Oliver share a joke. 

Melanie-May Taylor-Connell enjoying the Halloween scavenger hunt.

Sadie Houston and Edison Moore playing with Duplo together. 

The Otago Hub has continued to provide the one day a week program. In Term 4, Turi Kids have great fun learning about the topic 'Transport'.

Turi Kids Otago Port Trip 

- Paige Clarke, Jorgia Bizco, Oliver Harper
Hunter Darling, Sio Tofilau, Betty Skinley, Jamieson Skinley, Emily Doidge
Linkin Soal, Zantos Marsh

Turi Kids Otago Truck Visit 

 - Linkin Soal, Hunter Darling, Jorgia Bizco, Betty Skinley, Sio Tofilau, Oliver Harper, Tristan Miller, Emily Doidge, Jasper Skinley

Exciting projects happen in the classroom too.

Hunter Darling and Oliver Harper upcycling our new Hub cupboard. (Photo).