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At St. Peter and St. Paul, Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) connects to our Catholic faith by fostering communication, understanding, and respect for people from different cultures. Learning new languages helps us to embrace the diversity of God’s creation and to recognize the inherent dignity of all people, regardless of background. Our faith teaches us to love our neighbours and to reach out with kindness across cultural boundaries. Through MFL, we are encouraged to see the value in every language and tradition, building bridges of compassion and spreading God’s love through our words and actions.
At St Peter and St Paul we believe that learning of a foreign language provides a valuable educational, social and cultural experience for our all our pupils. This experience allows pupils to appreciate the rich diversity of God’s creation. In Key Stage 2, the children develop and improve their communication skills through a range of speaking, listening, reading and writing activities, with the aim of making substantial progress in one foreign language. We believe that learning Spanish gives children a new and broader perspective of the world, encouraging them to understand their own cultures and those of others.
Our curriculum aims to instil a love of language learning and an awareness of other cultures. We want pupils to develop the confidence to communicate in Spanish for practical purposes, using both written and spoken Spanish. Through our curriculum of work, we aim to give pupils a foundation for language learning that encourages and enables them to apply their skills to other languages, facilitates further language study and opens future opportunities to study and work abroad.
Our Spanish scheme of work supports pupils to meet the National curriculum end of Key stage 2 attainment targets. Learning is carefully planned and sequenced to teach the three building blocks of a language system: Phonics, Vocabulary and Grammar.
Pupils connect these building blocks of knowledge to create meaning in a variety of contexts, allowing them to develop their skills in the following strands: Language comprehension (listening and reading) and Language production (speaking and writing.)
Our Progression of knowledge, skills and vocabulary shows the knowledge, skills and progressive vocabulary that are taught within each year group and how these develop to ensure that attainment targets are securely met by the end of Key stage 2.
Our Spanish Subject Leader is Mrs L Greveson.
