Modern Foreign Languages
Contact:
Head of MFL - Miss Gauvrit
Subject Overview
During their time at Rivington, we aim to provide all students with a rewarding and enjoyable experience of languages. We will prepare students to become confident communicators who are able to apply their knowledge to both familiar and unfamiliar contexts, which will foster a deeper understanding and appreciation of other cultures on a local, national and international stage. We want to encourage students to build on their vocabulary and grammar in Spanish to enable them to be confident speakers, readers, writers and listeners in Spanish. Learning a language is more than just studying vocabulary or grammar. It brings people and culture together and we will aim to widen students’ knowledge of other cultures around the world.
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Key Stage 3 Overview:
Our Key Stage 3 curriculum offers a broad look at different topics with students being able to develop their communication in Spanish as well as their cultural awareness in our multilingual and multicultural world.
We follow the National Curriculum in Spanish which can be found by clicking on the link here.
We also follow the EPI (Extensive Processing Instruction) structure using sentence builders, which is based around 12 majestic principles of communication that we want students to be able to do by the end of Year 9 in order to communicate effectively in Spanish. These are divided into sections to allow language to be effectively interleaved to ensure that students can effectively retrieve prior knowledge. Cultural projects are clearly embedded and well-structured into the curriculum with specific sentence builders attached to them.
Students will gain a strong phonetic knowledge to enable them to converse confidently pronouncing new vocabulary as well as the reinforcement of many literacy skills from their first language. They will learn how to manipulate grammar to allow them to personalise information and retain core phrases that can be recycled in a large number of real-life situations. Through this knowledge and confidence, they will become resilient and competent linguists who are open-minded and versatile communicators.
Key Stage 4 Overview:
We study the AQA GCSE. The full specification can be found by clicking the link here .
Through the study of various themes and topics, we aim to build on key knowledge and skills that students have experienced at Key Stage 3 around phonics, grammar and vocabulary which will give students the opportunity to develop their communicative skills and self-efficacy and enable them to experience success in their language-learning journey. Students will become independent learners with a further focus on becoming spontaneous and fluent with the Spanish language. As we move through the GCSE, students are encouraged to use their language skills for every opportunity they might get!
Key Stage 5 Overview:
As students move into Key Stage 5 and continue their study of Spanish, they will study aspects of Hispanic society and political and artistic culture. They will also study a book (Las bicicletas son para el verano by Fernando Fernán-Gómez) and a film (Volver by Pedro Almodóvar).
We study the AQA A-Level in Spanish. The specification for this can be found by clicking the link here.