Modern Foreign Languages

Modern Foreign Languages Overview

Modern Foreign Languages is taught by a specialist teacher to all children in Key Stage 2. During our Spanish lessons we learn listening and speaking skills, reading and writing skills and knowledge about grammar. We explore the patterns and sounds of language through songs and rhymes and we learn to speak words and phrases, leading to full, grammatically correct sentences. Our Spanish curriculum is carefully planned to ensure that the children develop their language skills, applying knowledge to more complex conversational situations. We also provide the children with opportunities to explore Spanish culture across the world.

 Learning a language enriches the curriculum, providing excitement, enjoyment and challenge for children and teachers, helping to create enthusiastic learners and to develop positive attitudes to language learning throughout life. The natural links between languages and other areas of the curriculum can enhance the overall teaching and learning experience. The skills, knowledge and understanding gained make a major contribution to the development of children's oracy and literacy and to their understanding of their own culture/s and those of others. Language also lies at the heart of ideas about individual identity and community, and learning another language can do a great deal to shape children's ideas in this critical area as well as giving them a new perspective on their own language.