Welcome to Spanish at Faith Primary Academy

Our Co-Ordinator is Mr Salmon

Our Vision

Intent
“Learning a foreign language is a liberation from insularity and provides an opening to other cultures. A high-quality languages education should foster pupils’ curiosity and deepen their understanding of the world” (National Curriculum 2014 programme of study for Languages).

At Faith Primary Academy, we offer a relevant, broad and ambitious foreign languages curriculum that will inspire and excite our pupils using a wide variety of themes. The four key language learning skills; listening, speaking, reading and writing will be taught and all necessary grammar will be covered in an age-appropriate way across the primary phase. This will enable pupils to use and apply their learning in a variety of contexts, preparing children for effective future language learning and also contribute to the development of children’s oracy and literacy.

The intent is that all pupils will develop a genuine interest and positive curiosity about foreign languages, finding them enjoyable and stimulating. Learning a second language will also offer pupils the opportunity to explore relationships between language and identity, develop a deeper understanding of other cultures and the world around them with a better awareness of self, others and cultural differences. The ultimate aim is that pupils will feel willing and able, and most importantly inspired, to continue studying languages beyond Key Stage 2.

 

Implementation
Children are introduced to Spanish from Year 3 and receive a weekly 30 minute lesson, throughout their time in school. This enables the children to develop early language acquisition skills that facilitate their understanding of the patterns of language and how these differ from, or are similar to, English. The units ensure:

  • Lessons, across the Key Stage, support the skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing are delivered effectively
  • Children are taught to listen attentively to spoken language and respond, joining in with songs, rhymes and games.
  • New learning builds on prior knowledge and understanding
  • Phonics, vocabulary and grammar are introduced systematically and explicitly
  • Pupils are encouraged to answer questions and express themselves in Spanish, both verbally and through written work, developing the skills to write for different purposes and audiences and develop an appreciation of a range of writing in Spanish.

In addition to the teacher speaking Spanish, native speaker videos and sound files are used, giving pupils the chance to hear a variety of Spanish voices.

At the end of each unit, a summative assessment is taken and children are given the opportunity to reflect on and record their learning.

Impact –
Our MFL curriculum ensures that children develop their knowledge of where different languages, including the range of home languages spoken by the families of the school, as well as Spanish, are spoken in the world.

Through the high quality first teaching of Spanish taking place we will see the impact of the subject in the following ways:

  • Children will become aware that a language has a structure, and that this structure differs across the world.
  • Children will develop their language and communication, in both English and Spanish, through development of the four key skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing.
  • Children will enrich their language learning by developing an understanding of the Spanish culture.
  • Children will transfer to KS3 effectively and successfully and will be well equipped and prepared to continue and develop their language skills.

 

Spanish Curriculum Map