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Students Work Student's work is valued at Longwill - we display work prominantly about the school and are aiming to put some of it on our web-pages shortly. Literacy Hour Longwill has been running a Literacy Hour in every class each day since September 1997. These are structured for group reading and follow-up reading and writing activities to raise literacy standards for Deaf Children. We are a Pilot School for B.E.C.T.A (formally NCET) and their Research and Development of the Literacy Hour, via the Virtual Teacher's Centre We participate in many ways to raise and improve standards of literacy. Longwill has developed a reputation for excellence in this field and we host many visitors - mainly those interested in our Sign-Bilingual Policy and practise of literacy One project was to make 'talking hand puppets' so we could tell stories to our classmates. We first made plaster heads and painted them. We then made clothes and named our puppets. We wrote stories for our puppets and the puppets told them to the class.......the puppets used BSL (British Sign Language) to talk to us.