SPANISH INTENT

Our Spanish curriculum aims to instil in our children a love for language learning, an appreciation for different cultures and knowledge of the wider world. We aim for our children to develop confidence in Spanish communication for practical purposes, using both written and spoken Spanish. Our curriculum aims to develop children’s understanding of Spanish grammar and its phonics system. Most children will continue to learn Spanish in secondary school.

At Carter’s Charity our Spanish curriculum is based Language Angels scheme of work in which we aim to give pupils a foundation for language learning that encourages and enables them to apply their skills to learning further languages, developing a strong understanding of the English language, facilitating future study and opening opportunities to study and work in other countries in the future.

Language Angels caters for the three pillars of learning ensuring substantial progress in the foreign language by the end of primary phase. The three pillars of language being: Phonics, Vocabulary and Grammar. These pillars are weaved into all lessons and ensure substantial progress and build solid foundations in language learning before leaving primary school.

In addition, our curriculum ensures that all pupils:

• understand and respond to spoken and written language from a variety of authentic sources.
• speak with increasing confidence, fluency and spontaneity, finding ways of communicating what they want to say, including through discussion and asking questions, and continually improving the accuracy of their pronunciation and intonation.
• can write at varying length, for different purposes and audiences, using the variety of grammatical structures that they have learnt.
• discover and develop an appreciation of a range of writing in the language studied.

Our Spanish curriculum supports pupils to meet the National curriculum end of Key stage 2 attainment targets (there are no Key stage 1 attainment targets for Languages).

By the end of Key Stage Two, children will be able to:

• listen attentively to spoken language and show understanding by joining in and responding
• explore the patterns and sounds of language through songs and rhymes and link the spelling, sound and meaning of words
• engage in conversations; ask and answer questions; express opinions and respond to those of others; seek clarification and help
• speak in sentences, using familiar vocabulary, phrases and basic language structures
• develop accurate pronunciation and intonation so that others understand when they are reading aloud or using familiar words and phrases
• present ideas and information orally to a range of audiences
• read carefully and show understanding of words, phrases and simple writing
• appreciate stories, songs, poems and rhymes in the language
• broaden their vocabulary and develop their ability to understand new words that are introduced into familiar written material, including through using a dictionary
• write phrases from memory, and adapt these to create new sentences, to express ideas clearly
• describe people, places, things and actions orally and in writing
• understand basic grammar appropriate to the language being studied, including (where relevant): feminine, masculine and neuter forms and the conjugation of high-frequency verbs; key features and patterns of the language; how to apply these, for instance, to build sentences; and how these differ from or are similar to English.

Our curriculum aims to equip all pupils with a broad and balanced learning opportunities that deepens knowledge but also provides the cultural experiences they need to flourish throughout primary phase and beyond. The curriculum drivers Language Angels supports with foreign language learning are: Oracy, Diversity, Creativity and independence.