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Deaf Awareness Week: Belfast schoolboy involved in BBC SignSong
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A seven-year-old Belfast schoolboy has been involved in a BBC accessible music project for Deaf Awareness Week 2021.
Jensen Rea, who is deaf in one ear, was asked to be involved in the BBC SignSong after appearing in a BBC News NI video in January.
The Dundonald Primary School pupil helps teach British sign language (BSL), often dressed in elaborate costumes, to other children on YouTube.
The BBC music project, which was recorded remotely over lockdown, involves almost 100 people signing to Sing, a song by Gary Barlow and Andrew Lloyd-Webber.
Topping the table is Dundonald Primary School, with 93 percent of students meeting the expected standard. Information is based on The Department for Education (DfE) published list from 2019, as last year s results were put on hold due to coronavirus. Pupils are meeting the expected standard if they achieve a scaled score of 100 or more in their reading and maths tests, and their teacher assesses them as working at the expected standard or better in writing. It is based on a series of national curriculum tests at the end of Key Stage 2, which take place for mathematics, English reading and English grammar, punctuation and spelling.
Topping the table is Dundonald Primary School, with 93 percent of students meeting the expected standard. Information is based on The Department for Education (DfE) published list from 2019, as last year s results were put on hold due to coronavirus. Pupils are meeting the expected standard if they achieve a scaled score of 100 or more in their reading and maths tests, and their teacher assesses them as working at the expected standard or better in writing. It is based on a series of national curriculum tests at the end of Key Stage 2, which take place for mathematics, English reading and English grammar, punctuation and spelling.
Sign language: Seven-year-old teaching classmates
Sign language: Seven-year-old teaching classmates
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A seven-year-old schoolboy from Belfast has been teaching British Sign Language to classmates throughout the lockdowns.
Jensen Rea, who is deaf in one ear, started making videos on his YouTube channel last April to teach friends at Dundonald Primary School some sign language.
The Year Three pupil often dresses up in elaborate costumes and signs along to his favourite songs for his videos.
Jensen and his mum, Gillian Douglas-Rea, hope the videos will get more children learning BSL.
Video Journalist Mike McBride.