Modern Foreign Languages Curriculum KS3

Overview

Key Stage 3 Modern Foreign Languages aims to cultivate a life-long love of language. Spanish is taught using a variety of authentic materials including texts in the target language in order to develop the students' cultural awareness.

Language learning strategies that can be applied to the learning of any new language are developed, applied and revisited throughout KS3. These include new skills such as:

• translating to and from English into Spanish
• reading for understanding information, opinions or emotions
• role-play
• reading photos
  
• transactional dialogue
  
• writing at length for different purposes
  

These skills will, in time, prepare our students for the AQA GCSE course as well as develop an appreciation of the complexities of their own language. During years 7, 9 and 9 students' learning will foment automaticity and fluency so that they can respond with spontaneity to an increasingly wider range of topics.

It is anticipated that the student will have acquired the confidence and skills to move towards the GCSE Spanish course which starts in Year 10.

Year 7

During Year 7 students are introduced to a range of activities which give students a model to experiment with new language structures and vocabulary with a view to becoming more confident in communicating with increasing fluency to tell and adapt a story, giving personal information about self and others, describing the solar system and life in the jungle and making future plans.

Year 8

In the second year of the KS3 Spanish course students will build upon the vocabulary and language structures covered in Year 7 and meet the skills and attributes, within the context of a visit to Madrid, local and global environmental issues, healthy lifestyles and diet, free time activities and technology. It is anticipated that students will begin to establish a spoken and written style in Spanish by the end of this year.

Year 9

In the last year of KS3, students continue to develop automaticity through the use of Anchor structures and essential vocabulary to describe and give increasingly more developed opinions with spontaneity and fluency on a range of topics that includes school-life, family and relationships and well-being and having a balanced life.

Key contact

Ms J Moreira