Progression of Skills                             Two Year MFL Curriculum 

Intent

Why do we teach this? Why do we teach it in the way we do?

Intent

At Blenheim Park Academy, we teach Kapow Primary’s Spanish scheme of work which aims to instil a love of language learning and an awareness of other cultures. We want pupils to develop the confidence to communicate in Spanish for practical purposes, using both written and spoken Spanish.

Through this scheme of work, we aim to give pupils a foundation for language learning that encourages and enables them to apply their skills to other languages, facilitates further language study and opens future opportunities to study and work abroad.

Kapow Primary’s Spanish scheme of work supports pupils to meet the National curriculum end of Key stage 2 attainment targets (there are no Key stage 1 attainment targets for languages).

The Kapow Primary Spanish curriculum aims to provide pupils with a firm foundation of language learning. For this reason, we have carefully planned and sequenced when to teach the three building blocks of a language system, known as our Kapow Primary knowledge strands:

● Phonics.

● Vocabulary.

● Grammar.

Pupils connect these building blocks of knowledge to create meaning in a variety of contexts, allowing them to develop their skills in the following strands:

● Language comprehension: listening and reading

● Language production: speaking and writing

Ample opportunities are provided to ensure that children practise new learning across all four modalities.

Implementation

What do we teach? What does this look like?

Through Kapow Primary’s Spanish scheme, pupils are given opportunities to communicate for practical purposes around familiar subjects and routines. The scheme provides balanced opportunities for communication in both spoken and written Spanish. Pupils first develop confidence and accuracy with oral skills then increasingly apply their knowledge to extended reading and writing as they progress through Key stage 2.

The Kapow Primary’s Spanish scheme is a spiral curriculum, with key skills, grammar and vocabulary revisited with increasing complexity, allowing pupils to revise and build on their previous learning. Cross-curricular links are included throughout our Spanish units, allowing children to make connections and apply their language skills to other areas of their learning.

Lessons incorporate a range of teaching strategies from independent tasks, paired and group work including role-play, language games and language detective work. Our scheme of work focuses on developing what we term ‘language detective skills’ and developing an understanding of Spanish grammar, rather than committing to memory vast amounts of Spanish vocabulary.

Kapow Primary’s Spanish scheme has been created with the understanding that many teachers do not feel confident delivering the full language curriculum and every effort has been made to ensure they feel supported to deliver lessons of a high standard that ensure pupil progression.

Impact

What will this look like? By the time children leave our school they will:

The expected impact of following the Kapow Primary Spanish scheme of work is that children will:

● Be able to engage in purposeful dialogue in practical situations (e.g. ordering in a cafe, following directions) and express an opinion.

● Make increasingly accurate attempts to read unfamiliar words, phrases and short texts.

● Speak and read aloud with confidence and accuracy in pronunciation.

● Demonstrate understanding of spoken language by listening and responding appropriately.

● Use a bilingual dictionary to support their language learning.

● Be able to identify word classes in a sentence and apply grammatical rules they have learnt.

● Have developed an awareness of cognates and near-cognates and be able to use them, and other language detective skills, to tackle unfamiliar words in Spanish, English and other languages.

● Be able to construct short texts on familiar topics.

● Meet the end of Key stage 2 stage expectations outlined in the national curriculum for languages. ● Develop a greater awareness of the wider world and an appreciation for the role of language learning in promoting cross-cultural understanding.