Languages

Overview

Introduction

Our Modern Foreign Languages Department share our school's commitment to implementing a curriculum that:

• is ambitious for every student
• develops students' social and cultural capital
• supports ambitious next steps.

To ensure this happens, our aim is for our students to become skilled linguists, who have a broad understanding and a respect for languages in a global context.

We teach two modern foreign languages to each year group:

• Spanish (offered to every year group).
• French or German (this language option alternates each year).

Course leader

Mrs A Street and Mrs C Moutry

Curriculum

Course content

Our students follow a sequence of learning with a variety of engaging cultural elements to develop cultural capital and generate an interest in other cultures and one that is structured to introduce and embed new vocabulary and grammar. Our students will access regular opportunities in lessons to reinforce and revisit prior learning, in order to develop as resilient and confident linguists.

Topics

• Self and family.
• Free time and weather.
• School.
• Holidays.
• Technology.
• Music.
• Food and drink.
• Town.
• Healthy living.
• Relationships and jobs.

Skills and requirements

Skills developed

Students develop their knowledge of the countries that the language is spoken in, alongside developing their skills in reading, writing, listening and speaking. They will also develop their skills as reflective learners who think carefully about their work and how to improve. Their effective communication skills will also be developed.