In Year 7, the five themes studied are: Identity and culture; Local area, holiday and travel; School; Future aspirations, study and work; International and global dimension.  Language is chosen to reflect the world students live in, using contexts familiar to them in their everyday lives and teaching them the vocabulary that they need to communicate in a foreign language with young people of their own age on topics that interest and stimulate them. Grammar is taught in context and includes the present tense, the conditional tense, possessive articles, opinions and the near future tense.  The four key skills are Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing.

In year 8 the five key themes of Identity and culture; Local area, holiday and travel; School; Future aspirations, study and work; International and global dimension are revisited in more depth and with greater emphasis on more complex structures and contexts.  Key grammar skills from year 7 are revisited and are built on with the addition of the imperfect tense, perfect tense, modal verbs, the imperative, reflexive and separable verbs and the future tense.

In year 9 the five key themes of Identity and culture; Local area, holiday and travel; School; Future aspirations, study and work; International and global dimension are revisited and extended through new and more challenging contexts including authentic texts, poems, literature, songs and film.  The four skills of Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing are equally covered.

At Key Stage 4 students follow AQA GCSE German, French and Spanish.

German: https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/languages/gcse/german-8668/specification-at-a-glance

French: https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/languages/gcse/french-8658/specification-at-a-glance

Spanish: https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/languages/gcse/spanish-8698/specification-at-a-glance

We use high quality resources, Schemes of Work and assessments.  Extended writing is a consistent focus through KS3 and KS4, supported by our Key Questions writing assessment done at the end of each unit of work and at the end of each year of study.  The MFL Team of teachers and their students have a good knowledge of success criteria and teachers use data effectively.

• To enable all students to make maximum progress in their languages lessons whilst enjoying varied learning activities
• To teach students to be responsible and independent learners
• To provide students with literacy, study and thinking skills that help them across the curriculum
• To enrich students’ lives by providing them with the cultural aspects of the languages they are studying

“Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things."  - Flora Lewis