Our languages curriculum is broad and ambitious and ensures our learners develop a richness of skills and knowledge. It promotes awareness and tolerance of other cultures and backgrounds. It ensures students can communicate for a variety of different purposes in different contexts. We aim to ensure that students are resilient and feel confident enough to participate in conversations in the Target Language, able to give important information with clarity and to initiate conversations and get to know others both inside and beyond the classroom.

Our curriculum aims to ensure that students are confident with grammar – particularly tenses and conjugations – and metalanguage. The use of phonics and sound patterns is taught explicitly and embedded throughout the curriculum to support students with decoding skills. We are committed to ensuring that the curriculum is accessible for all students.

In addition, the curriculum ensures that students are exposed to a variety of authentic material sources, in both speech and writing, that promote an active curiosity about French, German or Spanish cultures all over the world, including the experiences of young people in these cultures.

KEY STAGE 3

By the end of Key Stage 3, students should be confident in their understanding and use of French, German or Spanish across the four skills (listening, reading, speaking and writing), and across a variety of topics studied since the start of year 7. They should have a good grasp of the sounds of the language, key grammatical structures and vocabulary, as well as an awareness of and interest in the culture of French, German or Spanish speaking countries all over the world.