Spanish

Statement of Intent for Spanish

The Spanish curriculum at Masefield is rooted in the belief that high-quality language education should foster children’s curiosity and deepen their understanding of the world. We are committed to ensuring that competence in another language enables children to interpret, create and exchange meaning within and across cultures. It also helps children develop skills that will open further opportunities later in life. The formal teaching of Spanish in Key Stage 2 provides an appropriate balance of spoken and written language and lays the foundations for further foreign language teaching at Key Stage 3.

At Masefield, Spanish is taught as a discrete subject in order that the development of knowledge and skills is taught meaningfully and explicitly. Naturally, links are made to other areas of the curriculum but this does not dilute the quality and entitlement of high quality Spanish teaching.

Spanish Curriculum

The school’s long term plan for Spanish sets out the content of teaching within in each year group. This is supported by the school’s Spanish progression document which demonstrates learning outcomes within each strand of development within a Spanish unit. Linguastars materials for Spanish provide a framework for staff to develop their lessons. This is adapted to match the school’s own curriculum intent whilst providing a supportive structure and resource for staff. Short term planning details how this content is developed over a series of lessons within the unit of work.  The organisation of the Spanish curriculum provides structured opportunities for pupils to:

• understand and respond to spoken and written language from a variety of authentic sources

• be able to speak with increasing confidence, fluency and spontaneity, finding ways of communicating what they want to say, including through discussion and asking questions, and that they are continually improving the accuracy of their pronunciation and intonation.

• 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.

Spanish Curriculum

Spanish Policy

Spanish Policy

Knowledge Organisers for Spanish

Below is an example knowledge organiser from each year group for Spanish:

Year Three and Four - Mi Familia Level 1

Year Five and Six - Los Básicos Level 2

Our Award Winning Spanish Provision

The Primary Languages Development Award - In Progress

The Primary Languages Development Award enables primary schools to evaluate, strengthen and celebrate their Modern Foreign Languages provision. Masefield teaches all children in Key Stage Two Spanish to an extremely standard - this was seen in the portfolio of evidence.