The intention of the new Spanish curriculum at St Joseph’s Primary School is that children are taught to develop an interest in learning other languages in a way that is enjoyable and stimulating. We encourage children’s confidence and creative skills. We strive to stimulate and encourage children’s curiosity about language and develop their awareness of cultural differences in other countries.  We strive to embed the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills necessary to enable children to use and apply their Spanish learning in a variety of contexts and lay the foundations for future language learning. In addition, we aim to develop accurate pronunciation and intonation so that others understand when they are reading aloud or using familiar words and phrases in a conversational setting.

Our MFL curriculum is designed to progressively develop children skills in languages, through regularly taught lessons in KS2. Children progressively acquire, use and apply a growing bank of vocabulary organised around topics. Children are encouraged and supported to develop their speaking and listening skills through conversational work, singing activities and games. As confidence and skill grows, children record their work through pictures, captions and sentences. Teachers at St Joseph’s use a language scheme called ‘Language Angels’. Additionally, teachers revisit basic vocabulary throughout the day by taking the register in another language (mainly Spanish), playing games or singing songs in Spanish.

The learning challenges used, to plan and teach MFL, ensure that children are accessing work at age-related expectations, with regular opportunities to be challenged through higher-level objectives.  In the End of Unit assessment for each Spanish topic in the Language Angels scheme, both written and listening skills are assessed and children have an opportunity for self-assessment too. Pupil Voice has enabled to us to see what impact our teaching has on children and their responses have been extremely positive. Children are assessed termly according to age-related expectations in line with curriculum requirements and in line with the school assessment calendar. This information is recorded and monitored by the

Subject Leader.