Little Atlas has taken ‘start small, dream big’ to heart, and focused on understanding our families and community better.
This year ,as we eagerly await the Tokyo Paralympic Games, we celebrated the people closest to our hearts, by inviting a parent speaker to help launch our SSDB project, ‘Beyond Limits’. Ms G shared how her parents discovered her deafness and how her hearing aids and implants help her make the best of her limited hearing ability. She also taught our children how to approach a deaf person politely, by tapping them on their shoulder to get their attention, instead of shouting at them or getting upset.
The children took the opportunity to ask her questions about how her lip reading and sign language skills have helped her overcome her deafness and even got her to teach them some sign words like ‘i love you’, ‘water’, ‘mummy’, ‘daddy’ and ‘play’, among others.
Ms G showed us being deaf doesn’t mean not being able to speak or understand others; it just takes perseverance, patience and passion to learn new ways of communicating with her loved ones and the larger community.
Following Ms G’s sharing, the children did an Olympic Torch relay to signal the start of our SSDB project and the 4-month countdown to the Tokyo Paralympic Games. They learned more about the 4 values of Courage, Determination, Inspiration and Equality, and even started thinking of ways to recreate some of the Paralympic events in school!
Our Little Innovators came away inspired and brimming with more questions they will explore in the coming days leading up to the Tokyo Paralympics in August.
