Britannia Community Primary School
Modern Foreign Languages (Spanish)
The National Curriculum states:
Purpose of study
Learning a foreign language is a liberation from insularity and provides an opening to other cultures. A high-quality languages education should foster pupils’ curiosity and deepen their understanding of the world. The teaching should enable pupils to express their ideas and thoughts in another language and to understand and respond to its speakers, both in speech and in writing. It should also provide opportunities for them to communicate for practical purposes, learn new ways of thinking and read great literature in the original language. Language teaching should provide the foundation for learning further languages, equipping pupils to study and work in other countries.
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.
Attainment targets:
By the end of each key stage, pupils are expected to know, apply and understand the matters, skills and processes specified in the relevant programme of study.
Subject content
Teaching may be of any modern or ancient foreign language and should focus on enabling pupils to make substantial progress in one language. The teaching should provide an appropriate balance of spoken and written language and should lay the foundations for further foreign language teaching at key stage 3. It should enable pupils to understand and communicate ideas, facts and feelings in speech and writing, focused on familiar and routine matters, using their knowledge of phonology, grammatical structures and vocabulary. The focus of study in modern languages will be on practical communication. If an ancient language is chosen the focus will be to provide a linguistic foundation for reading comprehension and an appreciation of classical civilisation. Pupils studying ancient languages may take part in simple oral exchanges, while discussion of what they read will be conducted in English. A linguistic foundation in ancient languages may support the study of modern languages at key stage 3.
Pupils should be taught to:
 listen attentively to spoken language and show understanding by joining in and responding.
 explore the patterns and sounds of language through songs and rhymes and link the spelling, sound and meaning of words.
 engage in conversations; ask and answer questions; express opinions and respond to those of others; seek clarification and help*.
 speak in sentences, using familiar vocabulary, phrases and basic language structures.
 develop accurate pronunciation and intonation so that others understand when they are reading aloud or using familiar words and phrases*.
 present ideas and information orally to a range of audiences*.
 read carefully and show understanding of words, phrases and simple writing.
 appreciate stories, songs, poems and rhymes in the language.
 broaden their vocabulary and develop their ability to understand new words that are introduced into familiar written material, including through using a dictionary.
 write phrases from memory, and adapt these to create new sentences, to express ideas clearly.
 describe people, places, things and actions orally* and in writing.
At Britannia, we follow the La Jolie Ronde scheme of work focusing on Spanish. This page contains our overview which briefly explains the aims and objectives of La Jolie Ronde and what is covered in each term across KS2. Within this overview, the progression in vocabulary is also shown. This page also contains a progression of skills based upon the Languages Framework and our MFL policy.
We are also raising the profile of Spanish at Britannia through:
- themed assemblies to launch the European Day/Week of Languages with stories read as part of this such as One House for All and Gabriella's Song.
- an exciting Bake Off competition whereby the children were challenged by Miss Connolly to bake a cake from the European Day of Languages recipe book - watch this space for the delicious entries...