Spanish – Intent, Implementation and Impact
At Stanhope Primary, we believe that a high quality and enjoyable modern foreign
language curriculum, delivered in a safe, caring and supportive environment, is
fundamental in promoting the skills needed to speak an additional language with
confidence. We aim to provide opportunities for our children to both safely and
confidently experience a range of activities that are fun, engaging and above all are
memorable. Through teaching a broad and balanced modern foreign language
curriculum, we aim to teach children the four fundamental skills involved in learning a
language (listening, speaking, reading and writing). This is carried out by following
the three pillars of progression, where children must first of all understand phonics
and the relationship between sounds and spellings, followed by understanding
vocabulary and the meaning of words and the correct use of them and finally pupils’
must have an understanding of how words are put together to create fluent
sentences.
Spanish at Stanhope Primary School aims to motivate and inspire children with a
high-quality modern foreign language education and allows children to develop an
understanding that languages are both diverse and fascinating throughout the world.
It teaches children to become responsible, global citizens who appreciate what they
have, show empathy for others and celebrate diversity.
A first-class modern foreign language education should foster children’s curiosity and
deepen their understanding of the world. At Stanhope Primary School, we are
dedicated to ensuring that teaching a new and exciting language enables pupils to
express their ideas and thoughts in another language with confidence and
understand, respond and share skills with other speakers, both in speech and in
writing. We value that by enabling children to be confident in another language, this
enables children to interpret, create and exchange meaning within and across
cultures.
Here at Stanhope Primary School, we are exceptionally proud to have a diverse and
varied cohort. We have families from twelve different countries, each bringing with
them a multitude of language skills and speaking a total of twelve different languages
at home. We are extremely privileged to have many of our children already able to
speak their home language, along with English, and in some instances a third
language being spoken due to time that has been spent within another country. By
concentrating on language and communication, our children see first-hand the
significance of speaking an additional language in order to learn and engage within
the local and wider community.
At Stanhope Primary School, it is our aim to enable our pupils to meet and exceed
national curriculum expectations with confidence and fluency. We strive to develop
creative, critical and divergent thinkers who approach problems across all subjects
with a positive and resilient attitude. By delivering a high-quality modern foreign
language curriculum, children develop skills that allow them to become emotionally intelligent, have a strong set of core values and an understanding of the world
around them.
Above all, at Stanhope Primary School we wholeheartedly believe the importance of
equipping children with the skills needed to speak an additional language with
confidence. Together, we recognise the strengths of our children and celebrate their
achievements knowing that every one of us has something special to offer.
Intent
‘Learning a foreign language is a liberation from insularity and provides an opening to other cultures’. (National Curriculum 2014)
At Stanhope Primary School, it is our intent that all pupils, regardless of background
and ability, have access to a broad, balanced and exciting modern foreign language
curriculum. Through the delivery of learning opportunities that inspire all children to
succeed, it is our intent that:
Children will improve their resilience in learning a new language as well as
securing an enjoyment of it through a challenging scheme of work, The Complete
Course in Primary Spanish (North Tyneside).
Have opportunities to share their own individual experiences of Spanish life and
culture.
Foster a pleasure and appreciation of both Spanish and Latin culture.
Secure language-learning approaches for memory and retrieval as well as for
listening, reading and understanding.
Develop an awareness of how to use a bi-lingual dictionary to decode unfamiliar
Spanish vocabulary.
Be able to use the Spanish language to speak or write sentences imaginatively
utilising prior knowledge of grammar and key features; with and without a
dictionary.
Understand the significance of the Spanish language and where the Spanish
language is spoken throughout the world.
Have a solid understanding of the key sounds of the Spanish language and their
corresponding graphemes and be able to apply this knowledge when speaking,
listening and reading aloud.
Appreciate and be able to copy the sound of the language through the delivery of
songs, stories and rhymes.
Create a deeper understanding of cultural differences and similarities.
Exhibit significant development in learning Spanish and work towards or meet the
targets of the KS2 Programme of Study of modern foreign languages.
Enjoy exploring language through a range of different activities.
Develop the ability to use language for their own purpose.
Develop increasing confidence in speaking Spanish.
Implementation
At Stanhope Primary School, all children within Key Stage 2 have access to high-
quality modern foreign language teaching, delivered by a Spanish-speaking
specialist teacher. The teaching of Spanish at Stanhope Primary School is
implemented in the following ways:
The fortnightly lessons are 60 minutes long.
Lessons are progressive and utilise prior learning, moving from single word
knowledge to sentence level over the four years.
Lesson plans include concepts of support for less able children and to
additionally extend and challenge more able children.
Lesson activities are challenging, exciting, varied, and interactive and help
deepen the listening, reading, speaking and writing skills of children.
A multitude of vocabulary guarantees coverage of all the key phonetic sounds
and enables children to build sentences using grammatical knowledge gained
during the lessons.
Throughout Year 6, the content of the modern foreign language curriculum allows
revisiting and consolidating of prior knowledge to take place.
A specialist language teacher teaches the lessons.
It is an expectation that formative assessment from lessons guides the planning
and teaching of successive lesson plans.
Spoken Spanish within the classroom will include the use of Spanish to give
praise, completion of the daily register and to refer to familiar objects around both
the classroom and school.
Impact
At Stanhope Primary School, we endeavour to inspire children to use all the skills
learnt in Spanish lessons in an independent manner in order to develop an
appreciation for speaking a foreign language. Our aim is to create positive and
confident learners who can share their language skills within class and within the
wider community. We determine and monitor the progress of modern foreign
language in our school in the following ways:
Children will become aware that language has structure, and that the structure
differs from one language to another.
Children will develop their language through development of the four key skills of
speaking, listening, reading and writing.
Children will learn that language skills can be utilised across many different
languages from across the globe.
Children will enhance their language learning by developing a deeper
understanding of the Spanish culture.
Children will have opportunities to communicate with each other in Spanish.
Children will be given the opportunity to look at other languages, particularly if
children are bi-lingual
Lesson plans specify which activity is an opportunity to assess progress and are
linked to the KS2 targets.
The finished activities in the pupils’ Spanish workbooks collate evidence of the
listening, reading and writing targets.
Based on the evidence of the above records of achievement and progress,
teachers can inform parents/guardians of this, using report statements which
relate to the expected targets of each year group under the headings ‘emerging,
expected and exceeding’.
Curriculum end points
The modern foreign language curriculum is designed with clear key knowledge and
skills end points at the end of each year, throughout Key Stage 2. The curriculum
that is taught in each year group is designed to build to these end points, for
example it is essential that pupils develop the four fundamental skills involved in
learning a language (listening, speaking, reading and writing). Key aspects from
cross-curricular subjects, history, geography and art are weaved into our modern
foreign language curriculum and links established with children. By delivering a
modern foreign language at Stanhope Primary School, our aim is to ensure children
develop their knowledge of an additional language and build upon their
understanding of where different languages, including the many languages spoken
at home are spoken across the world. A wide range of learning experiences
including ‘word of the month’ and ‘Spanish Day’ ensures that within our school we all
celebrate languages throughout the school and within the wider community, whilst
supporting the development of understanding different cultures within our community
and wider world.
Early Years
It is currently not a statutory requirement for modern foreign languages to be
delivered as part of the Early Years curriculum.
Key Stage 1
It is currently not a statutory requirement for modern foreign languages to be
delivered as part of the Key Stage 1 curriculum.
Key Stage 2
In Key Stage 2, a specialist language teacher teaches lessons and children learn
how to continue to apply and develop their broad range of skills such as;
Engage in conversations, express opinions and respond to those of others.
Speak in sentences using familiar vocabulary, phrases and basic language
structures.
Present information and ideas orally to a range of audiences.
Understand basic grammar including gender of nouns, definite and indefinite
articles, singular and plural forms of noun, and conjugation of key verbs.
Write words and phrases from memory.
Use a dictionary.
Adapt phrases to create new sentences describing people, places things and
actions orally and in writing.
Broaden their vocabulary and develop ability to understand new words that are
introduced into familiar written material.
Read carefully and show understanding of words, phrases and simple writing.
Explore the patterns and sounds of language and link the spelling, sound and
meaning of words.
Evaluate and recognising their own success.
Spanish Curriculum Progression Map
Spanish Long Term Plan EYFS – KS1
