Spanish

At Churchtown we learn Spanish across our Key Stage 2 classes.

We believe that learning a foreign language provides an opportunity to learn about other countries, customs and culture.

A high-quality languages education should spark pupils’ curiosity and deepen their understanding of the world. The teaching should enable pupils to express their ideas and thoughts in another language and to understand and respond to its speakers, both in speech and in writing.

It should also provide opportunities for them to communicate for practical purposes and provide the foundation for learning further languages.

We would like our children to be able to :

• understand and respond to spoken and written language from a variety of authentic sources.
• speak with increasing confidence, fluency and spontaneity, finding ways of communicating what they want to say, including through discussion and asking questions, and continually improving the accuracy of their pronunciation and intonation.
• begin to write, for different purposes and audiences, using the variety of grammatical structures that they have learnt.
• discover and develop an appreciation of a range of writing in the language studied.