Haslam Park Primary School

MFL- Spanish

Subject Leader: Mrs E Griffin

Intent

Here at Haslam Park Primary School we recognise the value that a high-quality languages curriculum can offer to our pupils.

 All pupils are entitled to a regularly taught, language curriculum which provides them with the opportunity to develop secure skills in speaking, listening, reading, writing and grammar through carefully structured and sequenced lessons throughout Key Stage 2. Language learning will be fun Haslam Park Primary School through the use of varied activities, songs, role-play and interactive games. By using topics which link to other curriculum areas, children will be able to embed knowledge and see how it can be used in real life. The

curriculum content and sequence takes into account ‘best practice’ research into language teaching with an emphasis on enabling children to have plenty of opportunities for repetition with a view to build confidence and a secure knowledge of vocabulary.

Implementation

All Key Stage pupils will take part in a weekly Spanish lesson, delivered by Senorita Thompson from the Primary Language Network. During these lessons, they will have the opportunity to develop a range of secure vocabulary and be able to use this vocabulary in a variety of sentence using correct grammar. Children will be provided with activities which enable them to build on their previously learned knowledge throughout Key Stage 2;

• Speaking skills will progress from using simple words and phrases to being able to join ideas and sentences together during, for example, presentations and
• Listening skills will progress from recognising simple words and phrases to being able to understand longer texts and more complex vocabulary and sentence
• Reading skills will progress from understanding simple words and phrases to understanding stories and non-fiction (including subject-specific vocabulary).
• Writing skills with progress from writing simple words and phrases to writing at length with joined sentences and using the correct grammar, for a variety of text
• Grammar skills will progress from, for example, learning a specific article for specific nouns, to being able to alter verbs depending on the

Impact

Our languages curriculum aims to develop within pupils a love of learning languages and a secure knowledge and understand of Spanish so that children are confident to use Spanish both orally (for speaking and listening) and in writing (both for writing and reading).

Our learning is progressive which means that with each half term, term and year that goes by, we are constantly building on our Spanish knowledge so that by the time our pupils leave primary school, they are ready for the challenges that come with learning languages at secondary school. 

Long Term Overview :

Knowledge Organisers:

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MARVELLOUS MFL NEWS

During one of our recent MFL sessions, Wissal (year 6 Mandela Class) demonstrated the ability to share key information about herself: her likes, dislikes and things that are important to her. Senorita Thompson was so impressed that she suggested we share it on our Twitter page. 

Within days, the wonderful teachers at the Primary Languages Network contacted us to ask if we could use Wissal's video in their training course materials to share what 'the gold standard' of year 6 MFL looks like. What an achievement! 

You can watch Wissal's video on our twitter page: https://twitter.com/Haslamparkprim1/status/1319215444788715522

Photos of us enjoying our MFL lessons : 

In our Spanish lessons, we apply our acquisition of new words and phrases in Spanish to the four DFE skills: reading, writing, speaking and listening. This makes our learning rich, varied and embedded. 

Videos to support your MFL learning at home: