MFL
Our Modern Foregn language is Spanish..
Baguley Hall Primary School uses the Language Angels scheme of work and resources to ensure we offer a relevant, broad, vibrant and ambitious foreign language's curriculum that will inspire and excite our pupils using a wide variety of topics and themes. The four key language learning skills; listening, speaking, reading and writing will be taught and all necessary grammar will be covered in an age-appropriate way across the primary phase. This will enable pupils to use and apply their learning in a variety of contexts, laying down solid foundations for future language learning and also helping the children improve overall attainment in other subject areas.
How is Spanish taught?
Spanish is taught in a whole-class setting by a language expert. Lessons are planned using the Language Angels scheme of work .The lessons are designed to motivate, captivate and interest children from the first moment.Each class in Key Stage two, has a timetabled lesson of at least thirty minutes per week.
Spanish lessons include:
- PowerPoints and interactive whiteboard materials
- Interactive games (which pupils can access from home to consolidate their learning)
- Songs & raps
- Differentiated desk-based consolidation activities
- Worksheets (at three different levels of challenge) are provided throughout each teaching unit and can be used in class or can be sent home to be completed as a homework exercise
Each lesson will focus on a combination of the 5 key language learning skills (speaking, listening, reading, writing and grammar).
Our curriculum is planned to ensure that all chidlren meet the National Curriculum aims:
- 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 Spanish language
Spanish is taught in two cycles to include the split classes in each phase:.png)
Cylcle 1: 2021-22, 2023-24, 2025-26. Cycle 2: 2022-23, 2024-25, 2026-27
Pequeños regalos (Small Presents)
All year groups will give 'pequeños regalos' in Spanish, throughtout the school day. These can be when taking the register, asking chiling to line up, walking through the corridors, giving simple instructions and so on. This will help children to use and understand more Spanish in an everyday context.
For more information please read the documents below.