A Welcoming Gesture ; Each Week We Turn the Spotlight On One of the Region's Schools. This Week Echo Education Reporter Ben Turner Went to St Hilda's Ce High School, in Liverpool's Sefton Park, and Found It Signed Up to Sign Language School of the Week

Liverpool Echo › November 11, 2008

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IT is bidding to become the first school to offer a GCSE in sign language, older pupils are so good they teach it to new starters, yet not one of its 866 pupils are deaf.

But that is exactly the reason why the school is embracing British Sign Language (BSL).

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A Welcoming Gesture ; Each Week We Turn the Spotlight On One of the Region's Schools. This Week Echo Education Reporter Ben Turner Went to St Hilda's Ce High School, in Liverpool's Sefton Park, and Found It Signed Up to Sign Language School of the Week

The school's business and enterprise co-ordinator Liz Roberts said: "It all started when we had a visit fromtheMerseyside Society for Deaf People. We are always looking for enterprising opportunities and with the sign language it really struck a chord."

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