Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) Curriculum Statement
Intent:
At The Mount Stewart Schools, we believe that learning a language enriches the curriculum, providing excitement, enjoyment and challenge, helping to create enthusiastic learners and to develop positive attitudes to language learning throughout life. The language that we have chosen to teach is Spanish. Our vision is to build their language learning skills and become all-around global citizens. We teach Spanish as a Modern Foreign Language to prepare our children for a rapidly changing world.
Learning another language prepares our children for life in modern Britain, in which work and activities increasingly involve using languages other than English.
We aim to foster pupils' curiosity and deepen their understanding of the world around them and their own language. We intend that through learning Spanish, our pupils will develop an awareness of cultural differences and develop a tolerance of diversity within society.
Our children will acquire and develop language skills, using what they have learned in various contexts with increasing competence and confidence.
We intend that everyone learns:
Implementation:
We follow the requirements of the National Curriculum, which can be seen in the document below.
Our planning, e.g. The Long Term Plan for Spanish, exemplifies a progression of curriculum content, skills and technical language from Years 3-6, coherent and rigorous. To support our planning and ensure that the work planned was appropriately rigorous, Language Angels schemes of work formed the basis of planning when deciding on which units to teach and when they would be taught. A complete suite of teaching resources is provided for every lesson. Interactive teaching materials are provided for all classes. Covering a wide variety of topics (including cross-curricular topics) with all instances of the foreign language pre-recorded using a native speaker and fully controlled by the teachers. The scheme has been adapted to suit the needs and interests of the pupils at Mount Stewart. Medium Term Plans detail the teaching and learning in each session. They refer to prior learning and learning, which is to follow to ensure that the teaching is coherently planned and sequenced. They show the 'key knowledge' content for the Knowledge Organisers in each unit and the End of Unit Assessment content.
Our no-ceiling approach to the teaching of Spanish in all our sessions. All children are supported so that they can achieve the outcome of the lesson through challenging but achievable tasks to allow the experience of success in academic assignments. Language Angels cover a wide range of cross-curricular units linking to familiar curriculum topics.
Some of these include:
Impact:
Language Angels automatically link the teaching to the 12 attainment targets set out in the DfE Languages Programme of Study for KS2 and give teachers a comprehensive history of pupil learning and progression in the primary language learning skills – speaking, listening, reading and writing. We know the impact of our intent and implementation means that most attain the appropriate age-related National curriculum expectations as a result of: