Modern Foreign Languages

Spanish

"With languages, you are at home anywhere." - Edmund De Waal.

At Kingsway Primary School, our intention is to immerse children into language learning and to develop interest and curiosity through an introduction to the Spanish language from a very early age. 

We aim to provide all children with the skills, knowledge and understanding to learn a new language as well as an understanding of their own culture/s and those of others.

Learning a foreign language provides an opening to other cultures, fosters pupils’ curiosity and deepens their understanding of the world. It helps them to develop communication skills, including key skills of speaking and listening, and extends their knowledge of how language works, helping them to develop their grammar skills, and overall preparing pupils to the challenges of the secondary languages curriculum.

Through the teaching and learning of Spanish we celebrate ideas about individual identity and community; shape children’s ideas about language learning as well as giving them a new perspective on their own language and a better understanding of their own cultural capital.

All children have access to Spanish term projects, where they learn Spanish through songs, activities, rhymes, role play and more. They have the opportunity, via fun, interactive and inclusive sessions, to become immersed in the Spanish language with a teacher who models basic Spanish, appropriate for different ages and abilities.

Our curriculum has been designed to progressively develop skills in Spanish. Our Scheme of Work shows how we deliver the National Curriculum Programme of Study for Languages. We refer to the yearly objectives mapped out by Language Angels to inform our planning. The units of work in which our curriculum is divided, are the medium-term plans, covering approximately half a term each and showing the order in which we teach. These units of work set out the learning intentions in knowledge, skills and understanding, grammar, vocabulary and phonics with assessment approaches and tasks

Many topics are revised or revisited each year with additional skill and challenge to ensure learning is built on. The lesson structure of each session allows time to revisit the previous week’s knowledge and build upon this.

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