Intent
The skills, knowledge and understanding gained through learning a language contribute to the development of children’s oracy and literacy and to their understanding of their own culture and those of others. At Ladock School, we feel that the earlier a child is exposed to a foreign language, the faster the language in question is acquired. We believe that the early acquisition of Spanish will facilitate the learning of other foreign languages later in life. Children are taught Spanish in KS2 and we aim to prepare children for the KS3 Spanish language curriculum at The Roseland helping them transfer confidently and successfully.
Implementation
We teach Spanish across Key Stage 2 and use a variety of the following techniques to encourage children to have an active engagement with Spanish:
Games – in order to develop vocabulary through repetition, reading, writing, speaking and listening skills.
Role-play – these should relate to the situations the children may find themselves in the future.
Action songs and rhymes – to develop phonetic skills, memory skills and to further vocabulary.
Reading and writing quality materials.
We build children’s confidence through praise for any contribution they make in the foreign language, however tentative.
We base the teaching on the 2014 National Curriculum. We have adapted this to the context of our school. This provides teachers with clear progression grids and content for teaching and learning.
Impact
Through the high quality first teaching of Spanish taking place we will see the impact of the subject in the following ways:
Children will become aware that a language has a structure, and that the structure differs from one language to another.
Children will develop their language and communication through development of the four key skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing.
Children will enrich their language learning by developing an understanding of the Spanish culture.
Children will transfer to KS3 effectively and successfully and will be well prepared to continue and develop their language skills.