At Thorpe Hesley Primary School we teach Spanish as a foreign language to children in KS2 using the iLanguages scheme.This is often supplemented by extra-curricular opportunities such as a Spanish lunchtime club, pen pal links and Spanish singing competitions such as Rothervision.
Children at our school have a natural curiosity for other cultures and learning a language at our school provides an opening for children to explore this in a creative way and practical way.
The aims of learning a modern foreign language at Thorpe Hesley Primary School are:
- To inspire and motivate children to want to learn a language.
- To introduce children to another language in a fun and enjoyable way.
- To foster pupils’ curiosity of the world and develop an appreciation of other cultures.
- To speak with increased confidence in the target language improving their pronunciation and intonation.
- To understand and respond to written and spoken language including a variety of authentic and interactive resources.
- To write in varying length using the grammatical structures taught.
- To provide opportunities for children to communicate for practical purposes.
Overview by Stage
Key Stage 2
Learning a foreign language is a liberation from insularity and provides an opening to other cultures. A high-quality languages education should foster pupils’ curiosity and deepen their understanding of the world. The teaching should 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. It should also provide opportunities for them to communicate for practical purposes, learn new ways of thinking and read great literature in the original language. Language teaching should provide the foundation for learning further languages, equipping pupils to study and work in other countries.
The National Curriculum for Languages aims to ensure that all pupils:
- 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 language studied.
Useful Links and Resources
Here are our policies related to spanish teaching and some useful resources to help children learn more about spanish.
