MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Subject Leader: Miss I. Ioannou
Assistant Headteacher for Safeguarding & Director of KS3: Mrs E. Danneau-Joyce
Subject Teachers: Mrs M. Alvarez
Miss R. Griffin
Miss C. Sheaf
The MFL department aims to provide students to develop the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing in French/Spanish so that they will be able to communicate with French/Spanish speakers around the world. We will encourage students to develop their knowledge of the French/Spanish-speaking world. We aim to teach students a range of vocabulary and grammar and encourage them to improve their spelling and pronunciation in order to express their ideas in the target language.
KEY STAGE 3:
Year 7
The Year 7 course provides an opportunity for students to develop their written and oral communication. Students acquire a sound foundation of grammar to enable them to express themselves with increasing independence and confidence. Students apply and develop language learning skills they have learnt in primary school.
| Greetings and classroom instructions | Talking about your home & where you live |
| Describing yourself and others | Likes, dislikes & hobbies |
| Saying what you do in your free time | The alphabet |
| Present tense of regular and irregular verbs | Numbers |
Year 8
The year 8 course extends the skills developed in year 7 and students to learn to express themselves using different tenses
| Shops / food | Present tense (reinforcement) |
| School life | Future tense |
| Holidays | Introduction of the past tense |
| Daily routine | Use of connectives and time markers |
Year 9
The students build on their knowledge of grammar and apply language acquired to talk about the following topics:
| Media (TV/films/technology) | Present tense/near future tense (reinforcement) |
| Health and healthy living | Past tense (preterit and imperfect tenses) |
| Work and future plans | Simple future |
| School life and options | Complex sentences |
KEY STAGE 4
Students follow the Edexcel syllabus in French/Spanish. Over the two years they complete 4 controlled assessments (2 orals and 2 writings) and a final exam in Year 11 of Listening and Reading papers.
More information is available here: French or Spanish
KEY STAGE 5
FRENCH:
Students follow the AQA syllabus in French. Existing skills are further developed and more sophisticated language structures are taught and used . They will become more independent in their learning and will explore areas which interest them most.
More information is available here: French
SPANISH:
Students follow the AQA syllabus in Spanish. Existing skills are further developed and more sophisticated language structures are taught and used . They will become more independent in their learning and will explore areas which interest them most.
More information is available here: Spanish
Trips and Visits
2012: Year 9 and 10 Trip to Barcelona, Spain
2014: Year 9 and 10 Trip to Andalucía, Spain
2015: Year 9 and 10 Trip to Madrid, Spain
2016: Year 9 and 10 Trip to Madrid, Spain
2019: Year 8 & 9 Trip to Seville & Valencia, Spain
Year 8, 9 & 10 Trip to Lille, France
