Spanish

Our department aims to equip students with the necessary skills and understanding required to learn a modern foreign language, whilst also promoting the importance of learning one.

Learning a different language has proven to promote a multitude of communication, memory and cognitive problem-solving skills. Learning foreign languages improves lateral thinking, non-verbal intelligence and linguistic understanding in English. We want students to improve their self-confidence by practising speaking activities.

We deliver an engaging MFL curriculum, teaching the language skills, speaking, listening, reading, writing, vocabulary and grammar. We aim to build a sense of global citizenship and an appreciation for other countries, languages and cultures.

In the next five years students will learn the skills and knowledge required to communicate effectively and to achieve a great grade in their GCSEs.

Students will also study Spanish cultures and customs, as well as festivals, places and food, enabling them to compare each with the English equivalents.

Key Stage 3

The students in Key Stage 3 will be able to describe and present themselves in detail.  They will discuss school, family and friends. They will also learn to talk about music, films and favourite series, healthy food, holidays, etc. By the end of Key Stage 3, pupils are expected to know, apply and understand the matters, skills and processes specified in the programme of study.

Curriculum Outline

Key Stage 4

Through studying a GCSE in a modern foreign language, students will develop their ability and ambition to communicate with native speakers in speech and writing. The study of a modern foreign language at GCSE will also broaden students’ horizons and encourage them to step beyond familiar cultural boundaries and develop new ways of seeing the world.

Curriculum Outline

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