As set out in the curriculum a high-quality language education should encourage children’s curiosity and deepen their understanding of the world in which they live.  The teaching should develop an understanding of what they hear and read, and enable them to express themselves in speech and writing.  It should also provide opportunities for them to communicate for practical purposes, extend their knowledge of how language works and explore differences between Spanish and English. This in turn should give them the grounding to learn further languages and equipping them to study and work in other countries

AIMS 

In teaching Modern Foreign Languages, we aim: 

• To help the children enjoy the learning experience 

• To develop the children’s language learning skills and make them want to study further 

• To understand and respond to spoken and written language from a variety of sources 

• To 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. 

• To begin to write at varying length, for different purposes and audiences, using the variety of grammatical structures that they have learnt 

• To discover and develop an appreciation of a range of writing in the language studied 

• To increase the children’s cultural awareness 

• To follow the National Curriculum 

 

 

POLICY

At Cockshutt C of E Primary we follow Kapow's Spanish scheme of work which aims to instil a love of language learning and an awareness of other cultures. We want pupils to develop the confidence to communicate in Spanish for practical purposes, using both written and spoken Spanish.

Through our scheme of work, we aim to give pupils a foundation for language learning that encourages and enables them to apply their skills to other languages, facilitates further language study and opens future opportunities to study and work abroad.

Kapow Primary’s Spanish scheme of work supports pupils to meet the National Curriculum end of Key stage 2 attainment targets (there are no Key stage 1 attainment targets for languages). The Kapow Primary Spanish curriculum aims to provide pupils with a firm foundation of language learning.

For this reason, we have carefully planned and sequenced when to teach the three building blocks of a language system, known as our Kapow Primary knowledge strands:

● Phonics 

● Vocabulary

● Grammar 

Pupils connect these building blocks of knowledge to create meaning in a variety of contexts, allowing them to develop their skills in the following strands:

● Language comprehension: listening and reading

● Language production: speaking and writing