Curriculum Intent
In Spanish, we want our children to be open minded, independent, respectful, resilient, active, creative and forward thinking.
The 2014 National Curriculum for modern Foreign Languages aims to ensure that all children:
Understand and respond to spoken and written language from a variety of authentic sources.
Are able to speak with increasing confidence, fluency and spontaneity, finding ways of communicating what they want to say, including through discussion and asking questions and they are 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 they have learnt.
Discover and develop an appreciation of a range of writing in the language studied. Competence in another language enables children to interpret, create, and exchange meaning within and across cultures. It also helps children develop skills that will open further opportunities later in life.
At Lawrence, the teaching of Spanish in KS1 and KS2 provides an appropriate balance of spoken and written language and lays the foundations for further foreign language teaching at KS3.
Curriculum Overview
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Autumn Term |
Spring Term |
Summer Term |
Year 1 |
Greetings, Numbers, Colour and Animals |
Counting, Colours, Animals, and Greetings |
Counting, Colours, Animals, and Greetings |
Year 2 |
Colours, Numbers, Days of the Week, Months of the Year, Animals and Body Parts
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Answering questions: how you feel, name, where you live, age and which colours you like |
Answering questions: how you feel, name, where you live, age and which colours you like |
Year 3 |
Name, Age, Body Parts, Colours, Objects, Opinions, Numbers and Christmas |
Days of the week and months Odd and even numbers to 31 Animal nouns Personal questions |
Sports and Opinions Random order/ backward numbers |
Year 4 |
Hair and Eyes, School, Simple Opinions, Numbers and Christmas |
Weather, Animals and Habitats |
Sports and Food |
Year 5 |
Body Parts, Clothes Numbers and Christmas |
Transport, rooms in the house and common furniture |
Family Members and Countries |
Year 6 |
Family, Feelings, Opinions, Numbers and Christmas |
Places in town and directions Prepositions Counting x2, x3, x5, x10 Fractions and decimals |
Cafes |
Children are introduced to Spanish from year 1 and receive a weekly 30 minute lesson, throughout year 1 and 2.
This enables the children to develop early language acquisition skills that facilitate their understanding of the patterns of language and how these differ from, or are similar to, English. In ks2, each class has a timetabled Spanish lesson once a week.
Lessons across the key stages support the skills of speaking and listening, reading and writing and the children at Lawrence learn about:
Greetings, Numbers, Colour and Animals
Counting, Colours, Animals, and Greetings
Numbers, Days of the Week, Months of the Year, Animals and Body Parts
Answering questions: how you feel, name, where you live, age and which colours you like
Answering questions: how you feel, name, where you live, age and which colours you like
Name, Age, Body Parts, Colours, Objects, Opinions, Numbers and Christmas
Days of the week and months
Odd and even numbers to 31
Animal nouns
Personal questions
Sports and Opinions
Random order/ backward numbers
Hair and Eyes, School, Simple Opinions, Numbers and Christmas
Weather, Animals and Habitats
Sports and Food
Body Parts, Clothes Numbers and Christmas
Transport, rooms in the house and common furniture
Family Members and Countries
Family, Feelings, Opinions, Numbers and Christmas
Places in town and directions
Prepositions
Counting x2, x3, x5, x10
Fractions and decimals
Cafes
Curriculum Impact
Our MFL curriculum ensures that children develop their knowledge of where different languages, including the range of home languages spoken by the families of the school, as well as in Spanish are spoken in the world.
Assessment information is integral to our monitoring cycle. Our monitoring cycle is developed at the beginning of each academic year. Monitoring in history includes: lesson observations, book scrutinies and pupil voice.
Year 5 have been following instructions in Spanish and dressing up in some very strange combinations.