Learning a foreign language not only encourages and improves communication skills but also prepares students for the world of work and enhances their personal and cultural experiences. From Year 7 to Year 11, all students have the opportunity to experience and enjoy learning a language.
Spanish is one of three languages offered from Year 7 in mixed ability classes for six lessons per fortnight. Students who start Spanish in Year 7 will continue learning the language until the end of Year 8. During the options process in Year 8, students may choose to study Spanish at GCSE if they have studied it in Years 7 and 8.
A key focus of our teaching and learning within the Modern Foreign Languages department is equipping students to be resilient, resourceful and confident language learners. Supported by (HB)², we teach students a range of strategies on how to learn and retain new language and students regularly self-assess and evaluate their work in order to make progress going forward.
Through our five year curriculum journey, students not only learn about the grammar and vocabulary that underpins the language, they also gain an insight into the culture of the language they are studying, including festivals, traditions, food and drink, the school system and much more! In addition to the curriculum, students in Years 7 and 8 experience a languages based cultural capital day. We also offer residential trips in Years 8 and 9 to the Opal Coast in France and Berlin, Germany.
MFL Teaching Staff
“A language is not just words. It’s a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It’s all embodied in a language.”
Noam Chomsky
Assessment and GCSE specification:
During the GCSE course, students will study topics from the following themes:
Students will sit four examinations in listening, speaking, reading and writing with each accounting for 25% of the final grade.
We teach through a variety of topic areas that are underpinned by a range of key grammatical themes, so that students develop not only a wide knowledge of key language, but also an understanding of how the language works.
More information about the GCSE specification can be found here:
AQA | Languages | GCSE | Spanish
GCSE Spanish clinic takes place on WEDNESDAYS (week B) with Mrs McMillan.
Additional intervention sessions will run afterschool on Thursdays.
AQA
100% terminal examination
9-1
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