MFL: Spanish

Our MFL subject leader is Mrs Irvine. 

At St Peter’s we see learning a language as an essential part of the curriculum. It fosters children’s curiosity about the world and provides an opening to other cultures. Children have the opportunity to progress in one foreign language throughout the school (Spanish) and develop their skills in listening, speaking, reading, writing and grammar. Children will show enthusiasm for learning a foreign language and develop a passion to explore the world around them, broadening their horizons and enabling them to become global citizens.

All classes will have access to a high-quality foreign languages curriculum using the Language Angels scheme of learning and resources. This will progressively develop pupil skills in Spanish through regularly taught and well-planned weekly sessions in Key Stage 2. Children will progressively acquire, use and apply a growing bank of vocabulary, language skills and grammatical knowledge organised around age-appropriate topics and themes – building blocks of language into more complex, fluent and authentic language.

Each unit ends with an assessment opportunity that assesses children reading, writing, listening and speaking skills. This allows children and cohorts to be tracked throughout their language learning journey.

Children will have a passion and curiosity for learning a foreign language – Spanish. They will make good or better than expected progress and develop their skills in reading, writing, listening and speaking a foreign language. Children will learn the foundations of learning a foreign language and will be ready to develop this skill at secondary school – whatever language they go on to study.

A: At St Peter’s we encourage the children to aim high and be ambitious in their language learning, with high expectations and excellent standards. Our aim being that they feel willing, motivated and able to continue studying languages beyond Key Stage 2.

S: Our Spanish curriculum is carefully sequenced to ensure that children build upon their prior learning. They will build on previous knowledge gradually as their foreign language lessons continue to recycle, revise and consolidate previously learnt language whilst building on all four language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing.

P:  It is our intention that all pupils will develop a genuine passion and positive curiosity about foreign languages, finding them enjoyable and stimulating. Our goal is that they will be working towards becoming life-long language learners.

I: In our language teaching the children will be encouraged to be independent and aware of their own learning goals and progression as each unit offers a pupil-friendly overview so that they can all review their own learning at the start and at the end of each unit.

R: Learning a second language offers 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 encouraging them to be respectful global citizens. E: In their learning children will be taught how to listen and read longer pieces of text gradually in Spanish and they will have ample opportunities to speak, listen to, read and write Spanish with and without scaffolds, frames and varying levels of support. The children will also be taught how to independently look up vocabulary they are unsure of using an English-Spanish dictionary and they will have a bank of reference materials to help them with their spoken and written tasks. Effective communication is at the heart of our MFL teaching.

E: In their learning children will be taught how to listen and read longer pieces of text gradually in Spanish and they will have ample opportunities to speak, listen to, read and write Spanish with and without scaffolds, frames and varying levels of support. The children will also be taught how to independently look up vocabulary they are unsure of using an English-Spanish dictionary and they will have a bank of reference materials to help them with their spoken and written tasks. Effective communication is at the heart of our MFL teaching.