Aims

The National Curriculum for languages aims to ensure 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.

Intent

Children at  Decoy Community Primary School’s learn a relevant, broad, vibrant and ambitious foreign languages curriculum that will inspire and excite our pupils using a wide variety of topics and themes. Our aspiration is for all pupils to achieve their full potential by encouraging high expectations and excellent standards in their foreign language learning - the ultimate aim being that pupils will feel excited to, and confident to, continue studying languages beyond Key Stage 2.

Our aspiration is that all pupils will develop a genuine interest and positive curiosity about foreign languages, finding them enjoyable and stimulating. Learning a second language will also offer 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. The intention is that they will be working towards becoming life-long language learners.

Implementation

Language Angels Scheme of Work

We follow the Language Angels scheme of work for Spanish from Year 2 onwards.

In our curriculum, there are four key language learning skills; listening, speaking, reading and writing are taught and all necessary grammar will be covered in an age-appropriate way.

Our aspiration is that all pupils will develop a genuine interest and positive curiosity about foreign languages, finding them enjoyable and stimulating. Learning a second language will also offer 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. This enables pupils to use and apply their learning in a variety of contexts, laying down solid foundations for future language learning. In addition, the children are taught how to research language that they are unsure of and they have a bank of reference materials to help them with their spoken and written tasks going forward. This bank of reference materials develops into a reference library to help pupils recall and build on previous knowledge throughout their primary school language learning journey.