Modern Foreign Languages: Spanish Curriculum

Spanish Policy

Spanish Progression of Milestones

‘There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification.’ Corinthians 14:10

 What does the curriculum for MFL (Spanish) aim to achieve?

• To foster an open mind through the understanding of other cultures and societies, which makes for a global outlook, whilst discovering and developing an appreciation of a range of writing.
• To encourage pupils to ask questions and have an enquiring mind about languages and cultures around the world.
• To provide pupils with the opportunity to embrace, value and celebrate those within the class who have English as an additional language, along with their cultural heritage.
• For pupils to develop skills in communication, listening and understanding and respond to spoken and written language using a variety of authentic sources.
• To ignite pupils’ curiosity in other languages and cultures, comparing them to our own.
• To ask and answer questions, be able to speak with increasing confidence, fluency and spontaneity, continually improve the pupils’ accuracy of pronunciation and intonation.
• To write at varying length, for different purposes and audiences using the variety of grammatical structures that they have learnt.