Chloe, is it Makaton or British Sign Language (BSL) that they use to sign?
If you did a BSL course then it would be an excellent skill to have (70,000 users of BSL as their first or preferred language in the UK) but it would go into the grammar of the language, etc - I guess you wouldn't need this with the children as they are probably just signing keywords. However, it would allow you to support a child who was Deaf if you wanted to in the future.
You could pic up some Makaton from the Something Special prgramme (on Cbeebies or DVDs) or a book such as the Child's Play First Signs. I think the Makaton Dev Project run short courses, probably just a few hours long.
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