Modern foreign languages

At TWFS we teach Spanish from Year 3- Year 6

Vision for Spanish

To deliver a high-quality language education to foster pupils’ curiosity and deepen their understanding of the world. To 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. Language teaching should provide the foundation for learning further languages and promote intercultural understanding.

Spanish is firmly embedded within our curriculum with weekly timetabled lessons delivered by a language specialist in Years 3-6. This ensures consistency and continuity of language learning throughout the school. The scheme is topic based but with clear progression through the language building blocks of phonics, vocabulary and grammar to build skills in speaking, listening, reading and writing. At the early stages the emphasis is on developing speaking and listening skills with more focus on reading and writing at upper KS2. As learning a language involves an accumulation of language skills, these are threaded throughout each topic and interleaved with retrieval and distributed practice to embed in long term memory. Our children leave with a solid foundation in language learning which they are keen to continue at secondary school.