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The Modern Foreign Languages faculty delivers the following subjects for pupils to enjoy across two key stages:
KS3 - French (via the Studio course) and Spanish (via the Viva course)KS4 - French (via the Studio course) and Spanish (via the Viva course) - AQA coursesWe are proud of the role we have as a faculty of supporting and enhancing literacy across the curriculum via the grammar and vocabulary which pupils are exposed to and engage with in our subject area. It goes without saying that language skills in today’s multicultural society are a highly valued life skill and one which the business world greatly prizes as there is a real shortage of good linguists in the UK. Those who go on to study GCSE have a solid base on which to further build their language skills and enhance their careers and/or ability to make friends abroad and generally have an enriched experience on foreign holidays.
If you would like further details of how we assist pupils with their language learning or any other aspect of our work such as school residential trips and/or exchanges, please do not hesitate to contact us. You can find members of the faculty team here.
The course assumes no previous knowledge and takes the learner from absolute beginner in year 7 where lots of key vocab is taught around the very basics of communication such as basic greetings, colours, numbers etc to talking about themselves, family, pets, school, free time and where they live, all in present tense but introducing the future tense enabling phenomenal progress in the first year.
In the second year, all three tenses are introduced couched in further topics of personal interest to pupils such as holidays, hobbies, food, music, technology and cinema.
In the final year of this key stage, more age appropriate topics are explored such as careers, the environment and social responsibility, fitness and all with the cultural backdrop and customs of the Hispanic and francophone countries. Support for consolidating the skills learned is provided by our wordmats and online consolidation platform giving pupils the perfect base from which to progress easily onto KS4.
Equipped with their KS3 knowledge, pupils revisit similar themes to those they met in the previous key stage which are now explored in greater detail. They are encouraged to explore, develop and express their personal opinions on many topics close to their hearts. The basic grammar they have acquired is further enhanced as they are introduced to more complex land sophisticated ways of expressing themselves in the target language.
This course greatly supports literacy across the curriculum and particularly enables pupils to greatly expand their vocabulary of English and understand how language works. In addition to a great sense of achievement in building up their knowledge, understanding and competency in the language, pupils find that they are very successfully prepared for final exams in all skills. They tend to achieve their target band or above securing for themselves a very sought after qualification in the eyes of all post 16 stakeholders as well as an invaluable life skill for the enjoyment of their future adult lives.